AmNY declares Sunnyside as a top NYC Neighborhood
Sunnyside Arch
It’s no secret that Williamsburg, Park Slope, the Village and the Upper West and East sides of Manhattan seem to be the perennial go-to spots for apartment hunters. But there are plenty of other neighborhoods around the city that are a little below the radar and worthy of equal attention.
We spoke with real estate experts from across the five boroughs to put together a list of up-and-comers, hidden gems and cute neighborhoods you need to learn more about.
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Ughh! With all this great publicity comes higher rents. Damn!
Sunnyside sucks a we’ll leave it at that!
Not if you own your own place.
hahah politicians will get you on taxes and fines. They’ll leech the Republic of everything.
Woohoo! Love Sunnyside!
“trees everywhere you turn” is not exactly how I would describe our tree situation.
Cool.
Uh-oh…there goes the neighborhood…more obnoxious pretentious hipsters to come!
There is some merit to the anti-hipster sentiment. Since Astoria became trendy, the landlord has been doing everything to try and get my elderly mother out of her apartment to rent it to some trust fund brat or yuppie. That said, I blame the landlord more than the hipster.
All you mouth breathers complaining about every 99 cent store and nail salon opening should be glad young professionals and hipsters are moving in.
Guess what eventually follows them? Nicer restaurants, cafes, shops, and stores that cater to people who ACTUALLY SPEND MONEY! Either stop hating on them or stop complaining about immigrants playing volleyball with soccer balls selling bootleg beer and wings.
Neighborhoods evolve – deal with it.
Grew up in Woodside/Sunnyside, still live here and love it …
Just get rid of that ugly arch on 46th St.
Looks like an entrance to a carnival …………………
dont blame the landlord blame the guy who can out top the average working joe in rent — they couldnt afford manhattan prices but they can surely push the average worker out by offering more than the apt is actually worth – have now been watching it for 3+ years
My block has lost two trees in the last year. With another one I’m convinced is dead with some kind of parasitic plant growing out of it. Trees? In the gardens, yeah. But that’s it.
Wow, Sunnyside a rising place to live and this is even before the two dog parks open on Skillman and 43rd. Once the Van Bramer Dog Emporium opens in Lodati Park, Sunnyside will certainly be on the same real estate radar as Greenwich Village and Gramercy Park, the other neighborhood with an exclusionary private park funded with public monies. By the way, the improvements to Lodati Park apparently include tree removal, as two trees there have been cut down by the work crews.
Sunnyside…hot spot..HA..
get rid of your homeless shitter first hippies.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89175843@N07/8122274567/
Oh, OM…..don’t'cha worry, I’ll help you with this!
The trees that were removed were dying. Parks sent in people to check on the health of all the trees in and around the park. They put boxes around the healthy trees, all but 2 of them.
Had you ever gone into the park you’d know:
1. the tree inside the park that was taken down was HOLLOW on the inside. One could even see the giant hole in it from across the street. I’ve looked inside it with a flashlight several times over the years, when SUDS used the park @ night, and it was obvious it was in poor health. One reason for this could be the fact that for the last 10 years people have poured buckets of BLEACH over their huge lakes of urine to try and hide their pp offenses.
2. the tree on the outside of the park was set on fire several years back (fireworks) with heavy damage caused to it and had a canopy that was losing branches/leaf growth.
Don’t worry though. Trees are part of the design for the area around the dog run, so it will all be replaced. A beautiful, greener park for all:)
Cheers,
RD
RD, if you bothered to go to the renovation site, you would see the slices of the trunk of the tree removed from outside the park shows that it was perfectly healthy. The fully grown tree was as healthy as the other trees along the row outside the park. According to the workers I spoke with on site, the tree was removed to widen the entrance being used by equipment in the park. While it is nice that dogs will enjoy the shade of new trees at that side of the park, softball players and their families have lost the primary source of shade for the softball field.
@Pretentious Hipster Your chosen screen name says it all. A tsunami of inauthentic, avaricious, soulless, cruel and shallow people descending on the neighborhood constitutes a well-planned invasion, not a natural evolution. You can align yourself with the English in Ireland, the Spanish in the Caribbean, the French in North Africa and Europeans in the Americas. When the conquerors tell the tale it is progress, when the conquered do it is genocide. You are on the wrong side of history. A hundred years ago you could fool yourself into believing your self-satisfied story, but conscious people know the truth these days.
But hey, you’ve got the dollars in your pocket, and that turns every wrong into right, doesn’t it?
Oh, big deal – let them ride the number 7 line while it is being “reconstructed”.
@ Girl Power – I could not have said it better!! Her smugness oozes just from her name and 10-1 she isnt even a native new yawker!
“dont blame the landlord blame the guy who can out top the average working joe in rent — they couldnt afford manhattan prices but they can surely push the average worker out by offering more than the apt is actually worth – have now been watching it for 3+ years”
If is someone is offering a certain amount of money to live somewhere, then that is what the apartment is “worth”. In fact, that’s exactly how you evalutate a place’s worth.
Pretentious Hipster
Absolutely agree with you.
Girl Power
“But hey, you’ve got the dollars in your pocket, and that turns every wrong into right, doesn’t it?”
Soooo… what’s wrong with the neigborhood changing? You know what happens when young blood doesn’t move into an area? The area DIES. The neighborhood changing is a matter of economics. The entire CITY has been changing the past 20 or so years if you haven’t noticed.
@ Girl Power/Susan
LOL …spare me the sob stories. You act like everyone showed up overnight. Do you even realize how stupid your statements reflect on yourself and other ‘OG’ Sunnysiders who think like you? Were you part of the original group that laid out QB and the neighborhood? Everyone moves in at a higher cost than the previous generation. You think the property owners in Sunnyside are complaining we’re raising their property values and investing in the neighborhood? I bet you also complain about immigrants leeching off the community and not reinvesting anything back into the neighborhood.
I chose this name because some other idiot’s general attitude toward all young newcomers as pretentious hipsters. I grew up in the LES in the 80s way before it became what it is. If you saw my circle of friends walking down the sidewalk I guarantee you would have crossed the street. No one’s more oppressed than anyone else. I put myself through college and grad school and could easily live in Manhattan if I chose to. All the hate from you lame ‘OG’ residents is getting old.
Don’t like where the neighborhood is headed? Move out. Life’s too short.
@Pretentious Hipster You are as ridiculous as I suspected. And as thick-skulled, insensible, insensitive, shallow, regressive and reactionary. Nothing I said was hateful, if you read it as such, the hate resides in you.
@Krissi You seem to have read without understanding.
You want trees? Call 311 and request one. Be part of the Million Trees NYC project. It’s something hipsters, yuppies and long time residents can see black eye to black eye on.
OM, just because the base of the tree looked healthy, it doesn’t mean that the whole tree was healthy, it had dead branches on top, as well as a hole in it from when someone put a load of M-80′s in it a few years ago and it caught fire. Had you ever looked @ the tree you would have seen the destruction.
What happened to your anger about the tree IN the park? Exactly. Maybe you should spend less of your free time bothering the the workers and more time talking to me, or my contacts with the Qns Parks Dept. Do you think the workers are given the specifics on when/why all the time? They just do what they are told to do. There’s not always a ‘why’
If it had to come down to put in equipment, so be it, it wasn’t in the best of shape anyway. Could it have survived? Possibly. It will be replaced, just as the dying on IN the park will be. It’s temporary. Do you think SUDS, or anyone, is thrilled we have lost 2 trees? Of course not, but, it had to happen for the work to continue. The Dog run lost the best shade it could get from the dying tree that was taken down w/i the park.
The NYC Parks Dept will replace both trees and everyone will get there shade, eventually.
What are you doing IN the site anyway? Why not say, you are looking thru the fence. The public doesn’t belong IN there.
So, using your logic, Central Park should never have been built, how many trees do you think they took down?
RD