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What are currently some up and coming popular neighborhoods for young short term kollel, frum wrorking types in NY or NJ excluding Lakewood?
Pros and cons of these neighborhoods?
Idk much of neighborhoods but I do know that the marine park area of Flatbush is growing with young couples some in Kollel some working, you get the pros there of a city everything very convenient also it’s a nice area and a part of a massive frum community
Sunnyside Queens is looking for couples.
If you are talking about NYC marine park is great agree totally with HIE they even have their own little community magazine and of course they are adjacent to marine park itself and are right next door to flatbush/midwood they have two large shuls and like a dozen smaller ones In long Island many people have moved to west hempstead.Outside of ny is waterbury you can get an old seven bedroom for between 150-180 thousand and a custom house in blue ridge for like 280-350 people from waterbury are very nice and the yeshiva ketana is extremly reasonable and they generally work in hartford stamford and west hartford 30-40 minute commute
waterbury is far “outside” of NY.
I heard a lot of young couples moving to Bayswater, Manhattan Beach and Far Rockaway.
If you are a NYer, then it’s simple. Stand on the outskirts of the frum community you currently live in, walk 5-10 blocks further and call it a new neighborhood for young couples. It generally has to do with affordability.
I thought the OP was asking about other cities.
A better idea – move out of the New York area. There’s a whole great continent out there with frum communities large and small from coast to coast. Don’t like the cold? Try Atlanta. Love snow? There are are Chicago and Denver. Los Angeles, Cleveland, Memphis, Detroit. Those are too far from the family? There are Baltimore, Philly, Boston, even Pittsburgh.
Wide open spaces, cheap housing, less competition in the job market, day schools and yeshivas, and you won’t face the NY gashmius competition either. Plus you will even get to know your neighbors.
Go West, young family! Or south or north. (But not east, unless you’re really good at swimming 🙂
Dear midwest2 i am a NYer and admit that my house probably would cost anywhere between 50-150 thousand less in most of the places you just mentioned.If you have four kids out of town living expenses will cost more for a frum family on a daily/year to year basis then living in Brooklyn or Queens. Out of NY there is even more expensive yeshiva and camp tuition, commuting costs, property taxes, and kosher food and neccesity of needing two cars in many of those areas. Additionally, their are of course many amenities to living in a big city such as generally better healthcare social programs etc.. I.E. if for fifteen years you are paying 10-15 thousand more a year in taxes commuting and tuition you definetly as a frum family spend more by living out of town.
Lakewood and Waterbury, are the only two places where this does not hold true as the housing prices in Waterbury are amazingly low and yeshiva tuition is low as well. Housing prices in Lakewood are much lower then many urban Jewish areas with much higher property tax but Yeshiva tuition is comparable to Brooklyn.
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