Advice on 3BR/2BA UES needed

Yes, you're spot on unless you get better or worse location, floor, views, bldg amenities, size/sq ft...have seen range from 6000 to 10,000 depending on previous factors...check glenwoods and related properties for inventory and pretty good mkt comps...do negotiate, it's worth it

Someone I know just rented a 3 bedroom, 2 bath for $4400, dooman, etc..It's in Yorkville which is far from the subway.

what building in yorkville?

Derek, I own a 3br 2BA condo FSLD building (no fee, no broker) for rent starting 7/1/10 in the price range - if you want to know more, email me: nyc3br@gmail.com

What are, in 1982? Not above 86th. Please! You could live on 3rd or even Lex at 94th or 96th in a new doorman building for those prices.

Here is an example - btw madison and park on 89th, $6900. Its HUGE!

http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=2050746

93rd btw park/lex, WD in-unit, HUGE, $7500:

http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=2114548

Seriously, lower East harlem is what above 86th used to be, and 86th-96th is what 72nd-86th used to be. Live in the now!

along those same lines, no-fee, $6400, brand-new, 97th/lex - though technically east harlem, its exactly the same (in fact nicer) than lex a few blocks below 96h:
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/rental/706846-rental-1510-lexington-avenue-carnegie-hill-new-york

WD in-unit, built like this year. huge.

I still laugh too every time I see someone saying "no further North than 86th St." I LOVED this when I lived between 86-96th though!

guy doesnt want to live north of 86th, so what?

could the boundary be due to schools?

I think you guys are reading too much into it ... maybe he wants to walk to work and not be more than x time. Maybe he has a favorite gym and goes twice a day, and wants to be near. Etc.

It's not necessarily like those looking-for-share listings on the craigslist that say "looking anywhere in NY except Harlem".

59th-86th anywhere that is not on park/5th/madison is WAAAAAAY too big of an area for than alanhart. ESPECIALLY when the things I posted above include two that are far closer to the green line subway stations than say 72nd and first.

I mean neither of us KNOW. Maybe TOP will tell us.

But I suspect I am correct, that its a status thing.

"the green line"

a/k/a the 4, 5 & 6 line on Lex. Sorry, "the green line" sounds so Boston or Chicago to me, lol!!

maybe the OP just prefers below 86th. really. more restaurants, more stores, closer to work, goes out downtown, etc.

but really, this is just a something someone prefers. for whatever reason. if someone wants to live in chelsea but not above 23rd street do we berate them?

or, maybe living below 86th is a term of their parole, lol!

My wife was reading some Yelp review of a sandwich shop in the middle of the LES party-central zone a few years ago. Somebody not from NYC. The reviewer said the sandwiches were real good, but the neighborhood was kinda sketchy. It was fine during the day when they were there, but it was probably not the sort of place you'd want to be at night.

OP here: the "below 96th" st was because even at 86th you already feel pretty uptown, and also the retail north of 86th can be spottier, particularly as you approach 96th. there are various schools, 6, 59, 183, etc that i want to zone for, in case we end up using public kindergarten. and yes, i'll be honest -- my wife doesn't dig the safety at some parts of the 96th st. area, so there is some anti-east harlem thing going on. we're your basic, overprivileged ny, dual income yuppie scum, what can i say?