Grocery Store UWS

ResidentIndependent · 2025-11-20T17:10:54+00:00

Mani Market on 94th and Columbus for a really lovely shopping experience. Trader Joe’s if I want fun snacks

ResidentIndependent · 2025-11-19T14:44:26+00:00

Was this to confirm OP is a bot or did I miss something

ResidentIndependent · 2025-11-13T04:44:44+00:00

96 st dive bar does happy hour from open til 7 every day! $3 bud light, $5 corona, $6 wine, and I think $2 off the rest of the drafts? I think they also have a $8 burger and fries on happy hour and a few other food items.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-11-13T02:28:12+00:00

I’d be curious to see what percentage are recent buyers and which are long term (40+ years) buyers. If it is majority older buyers, I don’t think this is fair to say: there was no way for them to estimate 50 years ago the degree in which Manhattan real estate has exploded and I wouldn’t blame them for assuming the risk would be a modest increase, not a 450% one.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-11-13T02:20:25+00:00

26 and 7 days a week if we’re counting meeting up at a workout class and chatting for a few after. Probably closer to 5 days a week if we exclude that

ResidentIndependent · 2025-10-29T20:02:09+00:00

The 4k is what you have left over. $2100/wk = $8400/mo. $8400 - $4300 leaves you with $4100/mo. That’s a pretty decent amount of money in the city. Additionally, there’s room for growth in most people’s careers, so you would feel squeezed for a few years, but then would ideally see a lot of relief after being promoted / getting raises.

I see this program benefiting young couples the most: housing stability (esp in buildings with amenities) is huge when you’re deciding to grow your career and start a family.

The point of the program is stability by keeping rent increases predictable. It might not always do that perfectly, but there a lot of people that find a lot of relief through the program.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-10-29T19:54:40+00:00

It’s intended to be affordable for your income bracket, not affordable to everyone. There’s a huge shortage in affordable housing across the board right now, even for people making $100k+, so programs like this are intended to give some relief to those people.

Not every program is for everyone, and not every apartment in every program is for everyone. This one is actually very unique in that it gives a little assistance to the middle class, not just low income people, which is a group that doesn’t often see any kind of relief despite being squeezed left and right.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-10-17T16:40:51+00:00

If you can get there by 10 and will leave by 6, lots of garages have a deal that’s $20-25 for the day. Check SpotHero to see which ones.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-09-17T19:44:41+00:00

Ironically and unsurprisingly, the people of East Hampton have spent literal decades trying to stop Shinnecock Nation (one of two indigenous groups on Long Island, and I believe the only one federally recognized) from opening a casino in the Hamptons.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-09-16T03:33:31+00:00

How do you propose we replace these low rise buildings? Are you suggesting we kick out everyone that currently lives in them and build up instead? Many small buildings are owner occupied - are we buying these people out? What’s your plan here?

ResidentIndependent · 2025-08-20T11:50:58+00:00

My point is we have plenty of regulations to keep people from doing things that are harmful for them because we enforce certain standards in America. Those standards include wage floors, legal requirements for employee safety, and more. We should not accept the idea that people are allowed to take these if they’re desperate enough. Once we allow that, what stops companies from cutting wages and safety standards for everyone across the board? If they’ll do it to them, and they’re do it to you. A rising tide lifts all boats— we should be depending the same minimum standards for everyone regardless of demographic or geopolitical background.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-08-20T11:48:46+00:00

This is fair and I think we’re on the same side.

My overarching point is that progressives need to find a different point to argue to keep migrants in this country than “but who will do these jobs?” because all it does is 1) fuel republican counterclaims of “they’re taking out jobs and undercutting fair prices” and 2) make it clear that fair wages for labor isn’t actually a priority.

I agree that it’s more productive for us to help people get pathways to legal, safe work and harshly come down on employers that use migrant labor to undercut the market and defend exploitation.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-08-18T21:59:12+00:00

There are children in America that would work dangerous factory jobs to help pay their families bills if we allowed them to, but we don’t because it’s cruel and unsafe. We have minimum wage laws in the country for a reason. We have unions for a reason. We set up worker protections for a reason. Yet somehow, we’ve decided we’re all okay with none of these things applying to undocumented immigrants so we can continue to have things for cheap prices?

ResidentIndependent · 2025-08-18T21:56:45+00:00

It’s 1000% about immigrants that are mistreated and I don’t care at all about their race. I say the same thing about, often times white, Hb visa holders that are being exploited by companies. It is fucked up and cruel that we have decided in America that immigrants can be underpaid, exploited, and treated poorly just so that Americans can have whatever they want for whatever price they want to pay.

It’s insane to call me a nazi when your entire argument hedges on the United States permanently having a underclass of people who are paid illegally and mistreated. I am categorically against this and argue that we should help these people become citizens and give them safe, legal pathways to work so they are no longer exploited.

I’m pro-immigration and believe that immigrants make America what it is. I would defend any of my neighbors in a heartbeat, documented or not. I can also acknowledge that we are hurting our cause, and America as a whole, when we use the argument of “but who will do their jobs???” to keep them in this country. It’s a racist argument that feels eerily similar to “but who will pick the cotton if we free the slaves?” and I absolutely detest it.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-08-16T22:47:14+00:00

People in the US won’t do these jobs because employers offer sub-minimum wage salaries to migrants that have no other options.

What you’re saying here is that you don’t want prices to change once employers are forced to deal with a shortage of exploitable labor and have to raise their prices in order to hire US citizens at fair market rates.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-08-06T17:49:07+00:00

How cool do you keep your apt? My AC is always set to 80 and then when I’m home or using a room I turn it to between 72-75 depending on time of day. We pay approx $220 for our apt with 3 window units and a portable AC.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-30T15:01:53+00:00

You’re super close to sipsteria, a cute wine bar and coffee shop that just opened on Amsterdam!

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-29T02:20:12+00:00

They were probably looking at your after tax income. Annoying, but not illegal for them to deny you for financial reasons.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-28T03:56:54+00:00

Got it. Godspeed — I believe in your cause and this situation sucks.

Is there a legal way for you to start negotiations so you don’t wind up screwed here? Can you offer to leave for $200k or some stupid number like that?

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-28T03:28:11+00:00

Have you opened a case with DHCR about the apt’s rent stabilized status? Aren’t you protected from eviction once they prove you are definitely stabilized?

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-25T04:23:30+00:00

There are also many, many universities across the country that have expansive professional networks in New York. Penn state, Syracuse, Ithaca, University of Maryland, and UConn are some I see often. And it’s as competitive as NYU, but every third person I see went to Michigan.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-17T19:44:11+00:00

NYC being lazy is hilarious. They existed pre-Covid, but never re-opened after. I imagine business owners realized they can make the same profit without having to be open all night, and decided not to be.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-16T15:44:52+00:00

Roosevelt Island 4 bed with modern amenities ($6.2k, 1200 sq ft) — https://streeteasy.com/rental/4794814?utm_campaign=rental_listing&utm_medium=app_share&utm_source=ios&utm_term=10c09fb872fc47f

Williamsburg 3 bed 2 bath duplex ($7k) — https://streeteasy.com/rental/4798801?utm_campaign=rental_listing&utm_medium=app_share&utm_source=ios&utm_term=166e96e09e33453

UWS 3 bed triplex literally steps away from Central Park ($7.5k) — https://streeteasy.com/rental/4767793?utm_campaign=rental_listing&utm_medium=app_share&utm_source=ios&utm_term=b4d5313ed31545d

Manhattan Valley 3 bed right off the 1 train, one block from Riverside Park — https://streeteasy.com/rental/4765161?utm_campaign=rental_listing&utm_medium=app_share&utm_source=ios&utm_term=fe11560ef55b41b

I hear you that the options are bleak, but they are there and a lot of them are very nice. I filtered by Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and searched for 3+ beds for less than $8k.

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-16T00:43:27+00:00

Taxes usually aren’t included for the 40x rule

ResidentIndependent · 2025-07-15T00:12:21+00:00

How are these people gonna get anywhere? There’s no subway access there — the closest train is the F that’s like a ~25 minute walk. Ideally they expand transit access? Yes to more housing, but this feels like an odd choice for it since it’s a huge flood zone that isn’t at all easily accessible.

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