should i live in brooklyn? my friends say its the only affordable area but i kinda want to live in east harlem or more north. how is the commute crossing into manhattan on the subway?
it depends. The rent is more affordable in Queens and barely affordable in Harlem. In those places you can find a room for rent as low as $700. In the rest of Brooklyn it's more like 1000 and up, and Manhattan is minimum 2000.
Commuting from Central Brooklyn (prospect Park/Flatbush) to Central Park takes around 30 minutes as a baseline which isn't too bad, and there's two major terminals (Atlantic center and times square) that every train goes to and are convenient for transfer. Brooklyn to Harlem could take around 45-60 minutes because the red line runs through there and red trains are the slowest line
Queens has insanely low rent and I've found a 3 bedroom once for $500 but the downside is that there's like two train lines that go through the whole borough and Queens to Manhattan is an hour and a half commute
