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Take a walk and decide for yourself.

Things start going downhill real fast once you cross 72nd.

When you start seeing double wide strollers and 35 year old women with perfect bodies wearing yoga plants..... Run run run

columbiacounty
30 minutes ago
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what a helpful response.

When you start seeing double wide strollers and 35 year old women with perfect bodies wearing yoga plants..... Run run run

what is wrong exactly with hot women with perfect bodies in tight pants?

to answer the op's question, you're good all the way to 110

bullshit.

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how would you know?

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=columbia%20county&gbv=2&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

when was the last time you walked around between cpw and columbus in the 90's and low 100's? I did yesterday.

why

$10 that cunty's next answer contains one word. pithy.

is that your answer

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how would you know?

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=columbia%20county&gbv=2&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

when was the last time you walked around between cpw and columbus in the 90's and low 100's? I did yesterday.

why

i can't find hunters burg anywhere.

There's no simple answer. The park block on 94th, for example, is nicer than 93rd. I think just about everything up through 90th qualifies as "very nice", but you might define the term differently.

jim_hones10: You probably missed the fine print. The OP specified between Columbus and CPW. In that context, your answer seems odd.

NYCMatt: Yeah, north of 72nd you might have to share a block with eyesore tenements like the San Remo, Beresford, St. Urban and Eldorado.

West81, read my post. You clearly don't read as well as the times thinks you write. Clearly YOU don't follow closely enough.

jim_hones10: A lot of the streets north of 97th either don't exist between CPW and Columbus or stop at Manhattan Avenue. So your answer that "you're good all the way to 110" seemed to suggest that you had missed the scope of the original question. Sorry if I misunderstood.

"When you start seeing 35 year old women with perfect bodies wearing yoga plants..... Run run run"

...b/c you've clearly entered another universe. We're discussing UWS, right?

Can you compare it to the UES on 5th Avenue? So 90th Street/5th is very nice still. 92nd or so is fine/nice, mid 90s okay but getting less nice and then some people wouldn't live above mid-90s on 5th. How does this compare to the UWS near the park?

totally different. madison avenue does not equal columbus avenue.

take a walk if you really want to know.

>take a walk if you really want to know.

Did you just threaten him?

no.

why.

you shouldn't threaten other posters.

because you say so?

really?

Threatening posters is a bad idea columbiacounty.

when was the last time you left the house?

Why, are you threatening me?

any evidence?

Surprise, surprise. I agree with W81.

I like every block north of 67th (including 67th) to 82nd. After that, it's block by block.

Evidence of a threat? Right here.
Why are you threatening me?

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ss400k
about 6 hours ago
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i'd kill west67 if i actually saw him on the street, but what the fuck does the agent have to do with it in this case asshole? the buyer accepts or declines an offer dickface. the agent passes the info along. if the agent doesn't "budge" it is because he/she knows the buyer won't take below "x" as an offer. now go away, fuckface.

If it's block by block, can you tell me specifically how nice 86th-90th Streets are between Columbus and CPW?

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I am considering 2 options: (1) buying the apartment next door and combining with my existing apartment or (2) buying 2 apartments that can be combined very easily. There are complications to each in terms of getting the purchase done but #2 has a very easy floorplan to combine and while #1 would have a more complicated floorplan and would require taking out a kitchen, renovating the apartment next door, knocking down a few walls, moving plumbing, etc but we wouldn't incur as much transaction costs from selling our existing apartment and the execution would be easier. What are the costs and approvals needed to do each of these combinations outside of the typical renovation cost? Both are condos. Do the owners have to approve the combination or just the Board? Does the DOB have to approve the combination and how long and how much does that take? Someone mentioned higher transfer taxes on the combined vs. the individual. The 2 apartments to be combined (option #2) have a tax abatement; could that be negated if they are combined? I am trying to determine how doable it is to combine 2 apartments when you are buying them separately from 2 separate owners and how long before we can actually live there (how long approvals take etc, excluding the time the actual construction takes). In addition to cost for #2, I wouldn't want to close until the combination has been approved (by the building and the DOB)and I'm trying to understand the timing of those hurdles and if it's reasonable that a seller would wait that long for the approvals. Thanks.

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/28112-poll-americans-hate-socialists

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ss400k
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report abuse Been a while... if I offer x amount lowball of cash just to see if broker budges, and seller happens to accept, am I legally binded? I believe NYC needs both parties contract signed til anything is legal per se... is it same ruling for NJ (brobokne) ?

i'd kill west67 if i actually saw him on the street, but what the fuck does the agent have to do with it in this case asshole? the buyer accepts or declines an offer dickface. the agent passes the info along. if the agent doesn't "budge" it is because he/she knows the buyer won't take below "x" as an offer. now go away, fuckface.

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about 13 months ago

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and here i thought for sure that the second avenue bus had finally taken care of you. damn.

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about 13 months ago

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same reason that garbagemen love to hold up traffic.

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ss400k
about 6 hours ago
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report abuse Been a while... if I offer x amount lowball of cash just to see if broker budges, and seller happens to accept, am I legally binded? I believe NYC needs both parties contract signed til anything is legal per se... is it same ruling for NJ (brobokne) ?

i'd kill west67 if i actually saw him on the street, but what the fuck does the agent have to do with it in this case asshole? the buyer accepts or declines an offer dickface. the agent passes the info along. if the agent doesn't "budge" it is because he/she knows the buyer won't take below "x" as an offer. now go away, fuckface.

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about 3 months ago

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are you still pretending? are you kidding? good luck. just try to continue to threaten me.

why

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about 3 months ago

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that's a threat.

why

REL1: I don't understand your question - the housing stock is quite varied between 86th & 90th. 86th is a major thoroughfare, with a mix of doormen and non-doormen building as well as elevatored mansion co-ops/condos. It's impossible to compare that with 87th & 88th, both of which are low-rise streets, where townhouses (of varying condition and configurations) predominate. First, you are unlikely to be living in the same kind of housing setup/density, you have different levels of road & pedestrian traffic. What is "nice" or "not nice"? Do you want to be in a large building? Are you looking at townhouse apts? What?

Further north, CGPS is on 91st, and Trinity is also on 91st (further west) so that changes vehicular and pedestrian traffic patterns.

this is why.

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Nada, do you lick 67's balls and the let him blow in your face? Or isit the other way around?

columbiacounty

about 13 months ago

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and here i thought for sure that the second avenue bus had finally taken care of you. damn.

Boy, cunty sure can ruin a decent thread

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about 3 years ago

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ironically, the bad rap on the taconic is all wrong...a lot less traffic --- once you get past poughkeepise, it's you, the deer and the cops.

And the piece of shit reigns to have an opinion about a Manhattan neighborhood.

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about 6 months ago

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are you moe, larry or curley?

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about 21 months ago

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very helpful, you fucking idiot. great contribution. you are making everything better.

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about 21 months ago

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If the president fails, you'll be satisfied? Brilliant.

why

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about 6 months ago

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are you moe, larry or curley?

why

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about 6 months ago

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you're crazy. endlessly talking to yourself.

I just want to know if each street is nice, quiet, safe, etc. There is a reason for comparing these streets. You can take out 86th Street because it is very busy. Example: I would not want to live at 98th and 5th but I would be happy to live at 92nd and 5th. On the UWS, 10 years ago, some streets were nice and some streets were not nice and it was street by street vs the UES where it was don't go above 96th Street. So I'm asking specifically about 87th, 88th, 89th and 90th between CPW and Columbus. I'm not asking about the buildings. I'm asking about the streets/neighborhood. Thanks.

I just google-mapped each block to refresh my memory. All 3 (on the side street itself) are low-rise TH blocks. Very charming. 87th has some low-rise tenement retail on the Columbus end, 88th has an apt building and 89th has Goddard-Riverside. So, IMO,
I would prefer 87 over 88 and 89.

All four blocs are nice. 88th has Trevor, which increases noise and reduces the charm of the CPW end of the block. 87th, 89th and 90th are all beautiful until you get very close to Columbus. 90th has a couple of mid-block coops, which are a bit less quaint than brownstones but have the advantage of adding some foot traffic, light and security if that's a concern for you. If I were choosing, I think I'd take 89th, especially the CPW end near the St. Urban. Closer to Columbus, I might take 87th.

REL1 - they are all "nice", they are relatively "quiet", and you would most likely be "safe" living on any one of them. Do you not have time to explore these 4 blocks?

Dangerous I tell you.... Dangerous. I lady yelled at my wife the other day for "almost hitting her foot with a stroller". We need more police patrols

87th is the nicest of the bunch because it's close to the subway and crosstown W 86th St. They're all charming, quiet, safe and fine. Higher up blocks approach the less charming tall residential buildings along Columbus Ave (a negative) but these higher blocks are more convenient to Whole Foods.

>>Dangerous I tell you.... Dangerous. I lady yelled at my wife the other day for "almost hitting her foot with a stroller". We need more police patrols<<

Well, those strollers CAN be a hazard, JM, especially when used as a battery ram as so often is the case around these parts (of course I'm sure your wife wasn't doing that... ;-)

OK Thanks everyone. Most of these comments - save a few people - were helpful