re: #286 Obdicut
I don’t really love it in the Upper East. Lots of old people, expensive bad food. I hope we can move down to the Village eventually, or some other cool place. We’re in graduate student housing— my wife is an MD/PhD student at Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering.
The Village is excellent, but super expensive.
The East Village might be worth a look: funky, safer than it used to be, and cheaper. A lot more character than the UES.