Tyrtle-Bikeoff

Tyrtle-Bikeoff t1_ixf5cml wrote

Yep :/ it is in a condominium not a cooperative though, so whoever buys it can rent the apartment out whenever they want and sell it to whoever they want for however much they can get.

I mostly just like that its simply a regular old modest building that was built for normal people. You don't really see that anymore with new buildings, its all ostentatious luxury (or luxury appearing) buildings almost exclusively aimed toward highly-educated childless professionals and not a broader mix of people, often with unnecessary amenities and units that are over-sized and under-bedroomed.

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Tyrtle-Bikeoff t1_ixev7a8 wrote

I agree 100%... but can they just be like... normal buildings with normal apartments? Like this instead of this?

They're both roughly the same size with the same number of beds and baths, both condo units, but the new one with nicer finishes (and, tbf, a rooftop terrace) 14 minutes away from the last stop on the Astoria line (N, W) is $1.25m, while the one built in 2005 (not even old enough to vote!) with less nice finishes located one stop outside the city, within 5 minutes of 3 different stations with seven services (7, N, W, E, F, M, R) is $880k, 29% less.

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Tyrtle-Bikeoff t1_ivv8zub wrote

Downtown Flushing, yes, but colloquially people often refer to a much larger area surrounding it as Flushing as well with sub-neighborhoods like Murray Hill and Linden Hill. Just like how "Jamaica" is used to denote large swaths of Southeast Queens, "Flushing" is used to denote much of Northeast Queens, probably both a long-standing remnant of time when they were each one of the five Townships of Queens County.

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Tyrtle-Bikeoff t1_ivv2z38 wrote

"Justice Map" is a great tool to use for looking at neighborhood demographics, with data from the 2020 census (showing population percentages for major racial groups, median household income, and income change at the county/borough, tract, block group, and block levels)

http://www.justicemap.org/2020/index.php?gsLayer=plural&gfLon=-95.3&gfLat=39.6&giZoom=4&gsGeo=county&giAdvanced=1&

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Tyrtle-Bikeoff t1_ivuou4b wrote

That would be difficult... but you can compare this map to http://www.justicemap.org/2020/index.php?gsLayer=plural&gfLon=-95.3&gfLat=39.6&giZoom=4&gsGeo=county&giAdvanced=1& which shows racial makeup (e.g. Latino, Non-hispanic White, Black, Asian, etc. but not specific ethnicities) and median household income at different levels of granularity (e.g. county/borough, tract, block group, block)

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