I'm looking to find a job in manhattan as an engineer and want a small studio for something to start out in. Manhattan is too expensive right now and i've head a lot about astoria, is it safe? good transportation to manhattan?
Astoria is quite pretty and it's close to Manhattan. The other answer made it sound boring but it never seemed boring to me. It's famous for having tons of Greek restaurants. It has an Arab pastry shop that chowhound.com raves about. It has a Bavarian biergarten that I went to once, that was a very nice bar. I always thought it would be a pretty good place to live, but my neighborhood was also nice and I didn't feel like moving. (I lived in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, which at the time was more affordable than it is now.)
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Astoria is quite pretty and it's close to Manhattan. The other answer made it sound boring but it never seemed boring to me. It's famous for having tons of Greek restaurants. It has an Arab pastry shop that chowhound.com raves about. It has a Bavarian biergarten that I went to once, that was a very nice bar. I always thought it would be a pretty good place to live, but my neighborhood was also nice and I didn't feel like moving. (I lived in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, which at the time was more affordable than it is now.)
I grew up in Astoria. Easy commute. Quite safe.
it is 15 minutes from the city it is as safe as anyplace else , the area is full of greeks now the rents are more reasonbale
Very safe...I would recommend it.