Best neighborhood

Where? Tribeca.

Why? Because you can't afford it.

Ciao.

Long Island City.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Prime Greenwich Village

wonderbra, it would have been vastly preferable if you had ended your post with "addio" instead of "ciao".

With kids, or without?

Without: East Village in the Christadora House or WV in a Federal TH.

With: UWS, within a block or two of CP and RSD (where we are now), north of 67th, south of 95th (block by block).

west village, east village, gramercy area, uppper west side...

Ciao is fine, alanhart. Dio has nothing to do with streeteasy, or at least he wouldn't if he were wise.

UWS and Greenwich Village are close with an edge to the UWS due to parks and playgrounds.

You two need to get over your jealousy.

Addio is a full stop parting. I like that.

i'd prefer a heartfelt sayonara from wonderinfant.

NYC10023 - without brats.

aboutready - heartfelt or not, as long as he goes...

It would behoove you two to be thankful of my excellence and to then be so kind as to bow before my red crocodile Hermes Haut Au Corrois Birkin briefcase specially designed by Veronique Nichanian and executed by master tailor Cifonelli.

A Presto!

dwayne, so true. i think wonderinfant is the spawn of Prada_Addict.

And I think you're poor. Your point, again?

your lack of wit is stunning. that's my point.

wonderboy actually sounds more like BRABUS. And just like BRABUS, is obviously new money.

UWS, preferably 68th-81st, with or w/o kids. CPW 1st choice, then WEA, then it just depends.

oh, you asked "why".

answer: tree-lined streets, neighborhoody feel, parks, kids, dogs, doesn't feel like you're in the city...i think the amount of green really wins me over.

"And just like BRABUS, is obviously new money."

No, I'm new money. Wonderbra doesn't sound like new money. He sounds like new money wannabe.

thank you, uwsmom.

As to the question at hand: UES, 70s or 80s, west of 3rd. Why? Because there are many wonderful buildings with large apartments, it is close to multiple museums, yet also close to many interesting places on the more eastern avenues.

Hi, I live on CPW just south of 90th. I love it, and my three kids too. However I still find the place not NY at all. I mean most of the people living here are very conservative, and as a foreigner it is not the picture of NY I had in mind. I like it because it remembers me Europe but without kids I would experience the edgy life of south of 14th street.

Obviously no money. And no conversation. To be addressed as "my drear".

I think addio and sayonara are pretty much exact synonyms. Native Italian speakers?

aboutready, you got it almost right ... his lack of wit is numbing, not stunning. It lacks the pizzazz needed to stun.

The Upper East Side because nobody wants to live there anymore.

Dwayne_Pipe, monopoly money is not an accepted form of currency. "New money"? No sweetie, it's more like "no money".

Now run along child.

There was an excellent thread on this last year:

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/3961-nyc-neighborhoods

To steal joepa's categories:

"Assuming money was not a factor, which neighborhood would you choose to live (and why) if:

a) you had a family with children
b) you were young and single
c) you had a significant other/spouse - kids not in the picture
d) you were looking solely as an investment
e) you wanted to live in the outer boroughs"

lolll

With kids, the Upper West Side - nice big apartments, safe streets, parks, playgrounds, schools. You don't need the neighborhood to be interesting. Before or after kids, I like street life, fashion on the hoof, nice neighborhood bars, little restaurants, design-y shops, galleries. Used to live in the Village, but now we're moving to Williamsburg because it feels like the Village did before it got Gweneth-ized.

showing my time spent in japan. alanhart, i guess i'm less jaded than you. i'm still capable of being stunned by imbecility. my drear, i almost missed that.

since i'm polluting the thread, seems only right to answer the question. i have two choices, one is more convenient, the other is the neighborhood i truly love but less convenient. the neighborhood i truly love is the east village, east of first avenue, selected blocks between houston and 12th street. i love the vitality, the people, the interesting shops, the fact that there are always dads at the playground, and the food. my second choice would be near but not right upon Union Square, which has some of the before-mentioned attributes, and is much more convenient, but has become a bit too much of a scene for me. a bit off the beaten path, though, has some of the nicest blocks i think in the city.

The entire downtown has become too "sceney" for me.

You poor things, I can understand a monsieur such as the two of you wouldn't venture into the whole downtown night scene. After all, your advanced age would probably force you to leave early for bedtime and miss Anisimova's memorable soirees, and where's the fun in that?

Oh well.

- To be addressed as "my drear".

LOL

I think addio and sayonara are pretty much exact synonyms. Native Italian speakers?

- Uh, I speak a little Italian but last I checked sayonara was Japanese.

"Dwayne_Pipe, monopoly money is not an accepted form of currency. "New money"? No sweetie, it's more like "no money".

Now run along child."

LOL. And tell us exactly what you do to earn this money, and how you have it invested. What is your investor policy statement?

thank you for the thread referall, bjw.

"the fact that there are always dads at the playground"

why is that so important?

"the fact that there are always dads at the playground"

- that's only b/c same sex couples can adopt, now.

Fifth Avenue, across the street from the Met, in a grandiose townhouse. Well, maybe when I strike oil in the backyard or something.

Other than that, Hell's Kitchen comes and goes as the top of my list -- mainly because I like walking to work. Sometimes it gets crowded, and it has no parks -- so it's a love/hate thing -- but I like the food and the commute.

"the fact that there are always dads at the playground"

So he can have sex with other dads.

The whole closeted dad thing and the blackmail/sabotaging his marriage for a little Fendi fur, endless glasses of Moet and a shiny new boxy old school Mercedes S-Class is sooo circa 1997 pre Gianni Versace murder.

*yawn*

lmao this fool is ridiculous. funny but ridiculous.

isn't it past your bedtime anyway?

wonderbra, you're now without a preacher: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/nyregion/30ike.html?hpw

Addiavolo!

Wonderboy/bra maybe Prada_Addict, but he appeared first as "desgarcons", methinks . . . and has been noticeably silent about the REM tower at One Madison Park lately . . .

admin, because i like a neighborhood where you see dads as well as moms with their children, and not just a once every two months thing. the UWS has it as well, in a number of playgrounds. it doesn't really matter to me now, as i have an older child, it's just indicative of the social structure, which seems a bit more flexible, and i'm not talking solely about sexual orientation. but interesting that one sentence caused such a reaction.

dwayne, wonderinfant still gets an allowance.

"wonderbra, you're now without a preacher:"

wow, he sounded fabulous!!!

"admin, because i like a neighborhood where you see dads as well as moms with their children, and not just a once every two months thing."

Assign the rug rats to domestic help.

Wonderboy/desgarcons/Prada_Addict: Time to get off the internet; BG is going to fire you for sure this time if you don't get those shoes restocked by the end of the afternoon . . .

dss

All caps: DSS

BG wouldn't injure its brand equity by hiring wonderbra

last i read wonderinfant was panhandling outside of the timewarner building, no?

clearly his mother didn't/doesn't love him. i'm sure she assigned him to helga, the domestic help.

Bergdorf? As if! Who even goes to Berfdorf? Or department stores for that matter? Honey, it's called called look-books and personal shoppers. What do I look like to you, a housewife in Dallas?

Babe, we really need to have a serious talk.

a housewife in Dallas is precisely what you look like, yes.

have kids:: 5th avenue high 60s/low 70s
pre-kids (as in trying to get your baby momma): Union Square / Madison Square area. Either lower 5th or a nice block between 5th and six, 10-20th streets
are a kid: east village

"look-books" and "personal shoppers" !!! ??? !!! Oh, wait, I get it . . . target.com

"wonderboy" + "serious" + "talk" . . . I dunno, somehow, that equation just doesn't seem to compute to me

East Village #1, UWS #2.

lic!lic!lic!

Think big, ericho ... not pushout neighborhoods, but the one you'd really WANT to live in.