[actualdc1]

The issue for me is the "average commute to work". I need to be on the 6 (or 4/5). Anywhere outside of Manhattan makes my commute ~1 hour instead of ~35 min. I don't currently live in the EV, but I'd entertain doing so if I could get a bit more for the money.

Any advice on where else I should be looking?

[jonathanjaeger]

Crown Heights close to Nostrand to Grand Central should take you 30-45min, and you can have a semi-luxury building or renovated apartment for the same price as the author of the article posted. There are other similar neighborhoods in BK. UES or East Harlem could work too.

[mancerayder]

If you don't mind a bit of grungy asthetics, the areas near the JMZ trains just on the other side of Manhattan in Williamsburg and the Bed Stuy/Bushwick border have a relatively fast commute - much faster than far more expensive neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

For example, it's like 10m from Marcy Ave to Essex St. in the LES. The J goes downtown in the Wall St. area while the M takes much of the same path as the F along 6th Ave, and both of those trains follow the same lines up until Myrtle-Broadway. In fact, it's literally two stops from Essex St. during rush hour as the J runs express (sometimes it sees itself as a Z).

[notyourday]

JMZ will be impossible to get into above Mytrle-Broadway come April. Maybe even above Gates.

[mancerayder]

That's potentially very true. That said, numerous lines are going to get squeezed as well, the A and C in particular.

[wgerard]

Are you commuting into midtown? If so, there's a reason Astoria is exceptionally popular.

[ameister14]

I live in Brooklyn, east of Prospect Park, and am on the 5. I can also take the Q/B which are express to Manhattan and switch to the 6 or 5 at 14th. My commute is to Midtown, and it takes about 35 minutes.

[rmah]

For many years, I lived in Westchester, took metro-north to grand central (30 minutes on an express train), then the 4/5/6 to work (10 minutes. 15 when things were slow).

[ryanwaggoner]

I looked at this before leaving NYC and the problem is that once you add the time to get to the metro-north station, time to switch from metro north to subway, time from subway to office, and time waiting for trains, elevators, etc, you can easily have a 75-90 minute commute. And that's when things go right on two different transit systems, which seems far too rare these days.

[mancerayder]

Lately, Grand Central Station has become an overcrowded tourist nightmare where you have to do breathing exercises to stay calm getting from the station to the subway.

I cannot believe they put an Apple store in there. It should be a crime to choose profits over efficiency.

[jtr_47]

Queens Village - a little further from the city.

Flushing

Fresh Meadows

Rego Park

Maspeth

Middle village

Kew Gardens

Take a look at the NYC subway map. Follow trains heading East of Manhattan: E,F,7,L etc...