if you REALLY know New York.....

The parts of Staten Island that are near the ferry aren't that hard to get to. You can also try the Greater Riverdale area. Or University Heights, also in the Bronx, where NYU abandoned their main campus in the 1950s and plunged the area into decay. Currently Bronx Community College's campus.

What about the industrial parts of Brooklyn near the queens border? Or how about near the conduit/belt parkway in Queens?

> where NYU abandoned their main campus in the 1950s and plunged the area into decay

70s.

and note that it did so to stave off its own bankruptcy.

Maybe northern tip of Manhattan. Still lots of commercial businesses there, 1 and A trains and access to many highways.

By the way I believe both SWE and Alan are correct. NYU began deemphasizing the Bronx campus versus Washington Square at least as far back as the 60s and probably the 50s. So at that point it was no longer the "main campus" but the property wasn't sold off completely shuttered until the early 70s. But that was just a vestige. By the time someone I know was looking at colleges in the mid-70s, there was no longer a Bronx campus of NYU. (NYU was however already expensive)

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I would say the 60's for the NYU campus. In the 50's (my father graduated from that campus in '58) it was not just not de-emphasized, it was still the core of the school. The school of engineering was based there as was the University College. University College was the better and more prestigious of the two liberal arts colleges at NYU, the other being Washington Square College. But University was an all male institution, and the Engineering college was certainly low on females as well, so the campus was decidedly lacking in females.

It was at the time a remarkably beautiful campus on University Heights overlooking the Harlem River and Washington Heights.

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glamma, are your jeans so tight you can barely walk? is that why you like bushwick so much?

I was thinking of buying a vacant lot somewhere in BK and doing the same. Where besides bush wick? I was thinkin outer edges of ps or boerum hill.

nyc10023, I think those are already too $$$.

As for NYU, it is true that they built a few notable modernist buildings in the 50s and 60s at their University Heights campus, but still they seemed to be moving towards shut-down.

I'm curious about the big transit hubs at Jamaica station (probably $$$), Broadway Junction / East New York (maybe too out there in all senses; haven't been near there in years) & "The Hub" in the Bronx.