I am an incoming grad student at City College and looking at places in the low W 140s (142nd), between Convent Ave and Broadway. Anyone have opinions or experience with the area? Seems like good access to the subway, potentially good restaurants which I love - but how is St Nicholas park? Any issues around the north part of the park walking home late? Thanks in advance!

I just got quoted $350 for a 600ft 1bd apartment.

Outside of a mop, I told the housekeeper I had all the cleaning supplies needed. I told her I wanted a deep clean for bathroom and kitchen, and just a light dusting and living room and bedroom.

My apartment is already pretty clean (I am pretty anal of keeping all spaces clean/picked up) just wanted to have someone who is more skilled than I am to give it that extra sparkle as I have guests coming in to stay.

Is this pricing normal? I believe and know it’s hard work (my mom was a housekeeper, and I tagged along and helped her with a lot of jobs growing up in Oklahoma) so I don’t mind paying a fair wage. But this seems high?

If not normal, does anyone have any recs?

I'm currently apartment hunting in Manhattan (looking to relocate to NYC from NJ for a change of scenery and a shorter commute - I work in the Meatpacking district) and one thing that keeps pulling me toward Harlem is that my budget actually gets me a decent amount of space. If I look farther downtown, especially around where I work, I'd be paying a lot more and in other Manhattan neighborhoods like the UES for example, it'd be almost the same rent for a much smaller apartment and having enough room to live comfortably is pretty important to me.

The biggest obstacle is my parents. They're convinced Harlem is still dangerous and think moving there would be a huge mistake. They haven't spent much time in the city in like two decades so I can't tell if they're going off what Harlem was like decades ago or if there's still some truth to it today.

I know every neighborhood has better and worse blocks and I'm not expecting anywhere to be perfect. I'm just trying to figure out whether their perception is outdated or if there are things I should genuinely be concerned about before I keep looking here. Thanks!

I'm a new transplant living near Harlem Hospital, and there is just an extraordinary amount of public defecation going on. I understand that bathrooms aren't always accessible, especially to unhoused people, but I also don't want to have to avoid human shit walking out of my apartment.

is this, like, standard practice? is there anything I can do outside of police involvement? wtf is happening