Successful Trip to Midtown Produces Unprecedented Optimism That Lasts Until Resident Checks Real Estate Website on Train Home
The Productive Manhattan Trip: A Window Into the Life That Could Have Been
Jackson Heights resident Angela Morales, thirty-eight, completed a midday errand in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday — a dry cleaning pickup, a pharmacy visit, and a lunch meeting — in one hour and forty-three minutes in what she described as ‘legitimately efficient’ and what her subway app, tracking the express 7 train timing, confirmed was ‘a statistically unusual combination of favorable conditions that should not be relied upon as representative.’
‘Everything worked,’ said Angela, still in a state of mild disorientation when reached by phone from the F train home. ‘I got on the 7. It was there. There were seats. I got off at Times Square. I walked three blocks. Everything was where it was supposed to be. I had lunch. The food came quickly. The check came. I got back on the train. I’m going home. I almost called a real estate agent on the platform. I did not but I thought about it seriously for approximately ninety seconds.’
The Real Estate Check
Angela opened StreetEasy on the train at 59th Street and searched one-bedroom apartments in Midtown and the surrounding areas. The search returned results ranging from three thousand four hundred dollars per month for a studio described as ‘cozy’ in a building that required a broker’s fee to four thousand nine hundred dollars for a one-bedroom in a building that described itself as ‘full-service’ but whose amenity list, upon review, consisted primarily of a doorman and a gym that required a forty-five dollar monthly fee in addition to rent. ‘And I remembered,’ said Angela, putting her phone down at Roosevelt Avenue. ‘I remembered why I live in Jackson Heights. I have space. I have my neighborhood. I have the 7. The 7 was good today. It is not always good. But today it was good and I live in Queens and for four thousand nine hundred dollars a month I will continue to.’
NYC real estate data at StreetEasy. Comedy: The Onion.
SOURCE: http://prat.UK