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What Is A Good Half-way Point Between Morningside Heights In Manhattan And Hempstead In Long Island? |
I will be starting graduate view in the fall as will my fiance, soon to be husband. He will be attending Manhattan School of Music in Morningside Heights and I will be attending Hofstra University in Hempstead. We insufficiency a good half-way point to live so that neither one of us has to commute too much. We won't have a lot of money and were looking into living in Queens. Any suggestions?
Essentially, Jamaica, Queens would be the upper crust place to live because there is a major Long Island Railroad station there that will get you to Hempstead and him into Manhattan. You will also have the recourse of taking buses to Hofstra and he will have the option of taking the subway into Manhattan which is cheaper than taking the LIRR but takes a lot longer.
The N6 bus unceasing on Hillside Avenue takes you to the terminal in Hempstead and you can then transfer to a bus going to Hofstra (nonchalant I don' t know which bus that is, but there IS one there that goes to campus) directly across the street from the bus terminal is the Long Island Railroad Post. The LIRR is a little more expensive (currently 2.00 for the bus including the transfer; 5.50 for the procession during peak hours, 3.75 off-peak, plus another 2.00 for the transfer to the bus to Hofstra), but faster, so you'd have that as an opportunity if you were running late.
Woodside, Queens is an option, but you would still have to go to Jamaica to continue on to Hempstead as there are no level trains from Woodside. It's an easy transfer, but to some it's not desireable. It would also require a transfer for your fiancee to get to teaching from Woodside. He could either take the 7 train to Astoria and get the M60 bus to 120th and Broadway and walk the rest of the way to Manhattan School or take the 7 into Manhattan and get the 1 or the 9 from Times Unstinting (longest way).
Woodside does however, have a large population of musicians residing there so there would be great networking for your fiancee.
As a musician, I consider he'll be spending quite a bit of time in Manhattan outside of school anyway attending and giving performances markedly if he'll be taking a jazz curriculum which could mean late night gigs and jam sessions (I'm a musician myself) so he'll constraint an easier commute.
Now, I can't attest to what it's like living in Jamaica. I haven't lived there since the 80's (I'm not far away from Astoria now). It, like any other urban area, has it's problems and it's advantages so I hope you'll be coming to village to do some advance scouting before you commit to a residence. But for easy access to public transportation to both Manhattan and Hanker Island (and JFK airport) Jamaica can't be beaten.
There is really just too much to take into consideration here. It's going to be a bit puzzling for you both no matter what you do since you're going to schools that are in literally polar opposite directions from eachother, but if you look at the LIRR map, you'll see that both schools are scarcely about equidistant from the Jamaica station in miles.
Wish you luck!
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