Where Should Connor and Jess Look to Live in NYC?

DIARY

We're looking for an "affordable" studio or 1-bedroom by late August. According to the Newcomber's Handbook and www.newyorkmetro.com, here are some breakdowns:

PRESUMED WITHIN OUR PRICE RANCE:

in Manhattan: Chelsea, East Village, Hamilton Heights and Morningside Heights, Harlem, the Lower East Side, NoLita, and NoHo.

in Brooklyn: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Fort Greene, Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Kensington, Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Windsor Terrace, and Red Hook.

in Queens: Astoria and Long Island City

PRESUMED TOO EXPENSIVE:

in Manhattan: Gramercy Park, Greenwich Village and the West Village, Hell's Kitchen, Lower Manhattan, Murray Hill, SoHo, Sutton Place, TriBeCa, the Upper East Side, and the Upper West Side.

in Brooklyn: DUMBO

WHO KNOWS?:
(we don't have any rental rate information)

in Manhattan: East Forties and Fifties, Flatiron District, Inwood, Lincoln Center Area, Midtown, Roosevelt Island, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, Yorkville

in the Bronx: City Island, Pelham Parkway, Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil

in Brooklyn: Bay Ridge, Flatbush, Fort Hamilton, and Stuyvesant Heights.

in Queens: Bayside, Douglaston, Flushing, Forest Hills, Jamaica Estates, Kew Gardens, Middle Village, Rego Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, Sunnyside, Whitestone

on Staten Island: Grymes Hill and Silver Lake, St. George, Stapleton

in New Jersey: Bayonne, Cliffside Park, Englewood, Fort Lee and Edgewater, Hoboken, Jersey City, Leonia, Montclair, Ridgewood, South Orange, Summit, Teaneck, Tenafly, Weehaawken, Westfield

Elsewhere: Bronxville, Dobbs Ferry, Edgemont, Garden City, Great Neck, Greenwich, Manhasset, Mamaroneck, Mt. Kisco, New Rochelle, Norwalk, Old Westbury, Pelham, Port Washington, Rockville Centre, Scarsdale, Stamford, Tarrytown, Westport, White Plains

OFF THE RADAR:
(we don't really have any information on these places... should we?)

in the Bronx: Co-Op City, Fordham, Highbridge, Hunts Point, Mott Haven, Parkchester, Throgs Neck, Tremont

in Brooklyn: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Bushwick, Coney Island, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East New York, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay

in Queens: Arverne, Belle Harbor, College Point, Far Rockaway, Hammel, Hollis, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Little Neck, Maspeth, Ozone Park, Queens Village, Valley Stream, Woodhaven

on Staten Island: Great Hills, Howland Hook, Huguenot, Mariners Harbor, New Dorp Beach, New Springville, Port Richmond, Richmondtown, Rosebank, Tottenville, West New Brighton

And now you get to put in your two cents, if you have such. Where should we move, and why?