Three Ways To Rent Harlem Apartments:
|
|
LiveUptown.com is a Harlem real estate website that helps users search for the best Harlem Brownstones, Coops and Condos for sale and Harlem apartments and Harlem rooms for rent: No Fee and Low Fee.
|
No Fee Apartment Listings
Launching 2011
|
|
Inwood is physically bounded by the Harlem River to the north and east, and the Hudson River to the west. It extends southward to Fort Tryon Park and alternatively Dyckman Street or Fairview Avenue further south, depending on the source. Inwood is mostly covered by the 10034 postal ZIP code. The community has some of the best Inwood apartments with no real estate broker fees.
Notably, while Inwood is the northernmost neighborhood on the island of Manhattan, it is not the northernmost neighborhood of the entire borough of Manhattan. Over the last few years, investors have developed thousands of Inwood rentals with no real estate broker fees. That distinction is held by Marble Hill, a Manhattan neighborhood situated directly to the north of the island of Manhattan on the North American mainland. It was isolated from the rest of Manhattan only in the 20th century when the route of the Harlem River was altered by the Harlem River Ship Canal.
Because of its northern location, the hilly geography and the interruption of the street grid (Broadway and Fort George Hill are the only local streets that connect to the rest of Manhattan), the neighborhood can feel somewhat detached from the rest of the borough. Inwood is also sometimes mistakenly identified by non-residents as being part of the larger and better-known Washington Heights area to the south, or even confused with being part of The Bronx. Renters have been enjoying Inwood apartments with no real estate broker fees for years.
207th Street IRT station under construction in 1906.Inwood was a rural section of Manhattan well into the early 20th century. Once the IRT subway reached Inwood in 1906, speculative developers constructed numerous apartment buildings on the east side of Broadway. The IRT station helped to expand the number of Inwood apartments with no real estate broker fees. A subsequent construction boom occurred after 1933 on the west side of Broadway, when the IND subway reached 207th Street along Broadway. Many of Inwood's impressive Art Deco apartment buildings were constructed during this period.
Today, Inwood is a residential neighborhood of primarily five-to-eight story prewar Inwood apartments, along with some of the few remaining detached houses on Manhattan island. Buildings are evenly mixed between elevator and walk-ups. Most of Inwood's co-op buildings are located west of Broadway, while rentals dominate on the east side of Broadway. Parks include the very large and old-growth Inwood Hill Park, Fort Tryon Park, and Isham Park along with numerous other green spaces. Institutions include the Allen Pavilion (an annex of New York-Presbyterian Hospital) and several churches and schools. Inwood also includes Dyckman House, the last remaining Dutch colonial-era farmhouse in Manhattan.
The residents of Inwood apartments were mostly of Irish and Jewish descent for much of the 20th century. The neighborhood exhibited a strong Irish identity with many Irish shops, pubs, and even a Gaelic football field in Inwood Hill Park. However, in the 1970s and 1980s, many Irish moved out of Inwood to the outer boroughs and suburbs. During the same period that Irish were leaving Inwood, there was a dramatic rise in the number of immigrants from the Dominican Republic.
Today, Inwood has a predominantly Dominican population, particularly in the majority of the neighborhood which lies east of Broadway. The combination of less expensive Inwood rentals, extensive wild parks and access to the water has also attracted a number of artists, students and musicians to the neighborhood. Inwood appeals to many who seek lower housing costs and, in places, a more serene setting, without actually leaving Manhattan and its subway connections. As evidence of the growing real-estate value of the Inwood brand, listings in Fort George and even Marble Hill will sometimes describe themselves as being in Inwood. Real estate values have raised in recent years as the neighborhood has drawn residents priced out of other parts of Manhattan.
|
|
