We’ve only been here for 2 nights, but I am already hooked on this neighborhood. Tree lined streets that are super clean, nice grocery and other stores, Central Park nearby, etc. Maybe I would feel like this about any neighborhood we landed in, who knows?
But falling in love has meant a lot of bias for me, at the worst possible time, while we’re searching for places online. Cool Dad is very open minded, as you can see from his latest mention of Jersey swamp land. We’re going to visit a potential apartment tomorrow that he found. I call it the Teething Palace because it has no neighbors on any sides except for underneath. It’s a good price, large, but outside of Manhattan.
Me–I’m holding out for something here in the UES where everybody in the grocery already loves Cool Baby and the streets make me feel like I’m in Europe all over again (bad “exchange rate” and everything). Not to mention, I feel really cool even though we are all severely underdressed for anything more than running in the water sprinkler at the park and two-thirds of us need a haircut. I can already hear apartment owners singing “I don’t want no scrubs” as they send us away.
The good news here is that we’ve found a great place to stay for Monday-Friday and it is only a few doors down. Very thankful for that.
(photo: Damek)
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every time you all mention the UES, i think of the theme song to the jeffersons…
“we’re moving on up! to the east si-ide…to a deluxe apt…in the sky-eye-eye…”
you know the tune!!!
lovin your updates…still praying!
Ooh, nice picture. Looks like an interesting place to live. Did you use to live in Europe? Glad you found something temporary. Praying all things fall into place.
Oh and Tam….. now I’ll have that song stuck in my head all day.
We were hoping for “Live from New York…it’s Cool Chat!!!” Thanks for the updates – looking forward to more!
We were just in NYC in June and stayed in the upper west side around 94th st for a week. We loved the neighborhood, so be flexible. We also loved Brooklyn and Greenwich. NYC is fabulous…praying for the perfect place for you.
stephanie
Heeeyyyy!!!!!
Move to the UWS! More families and more fun!
We should me with you all for lunch or something after you are all settled in!
tam–seconds after i posted, i realized that wonderful song was referring to “my” neighborhood. took me a while, huh…haha
brenda–we haven’t lived there, but have gotten to visit a few times thanks to family member working for an airline. And thank you!
amy–we are definitely going to have to steal that perfect chat title from you…that is, if we can keep ourselves here until next Monday!
rowan and seth–yes, UWS is one of the few neighborhoods I haven’t experienced yet. I will have to go visit!
seth–yes! we’ll set something up over email. maybe meet in the middle–central park double date (with a Cool Baby tagging along)!