My husband and I moved into our apartment by the Marcy Avenue station in Williamsburg in September 2019. We could not wait for the year to be up so we could get out of that lease. But it was far! We initially thought we’d like living in a family-oriented, quiet, and out-of-the-way neighborhood, but ultimately there was nothing to do there and the commute killed us. After listening to mutual friends and colleagues tell us, “you can get tons of space in Jersey and you are paying half the price,” we fell in love with the idea and took the leap. We had the idea of moving to Jersey City. But we needed tons of space because he is an artist and needs room to store his paintings. When I first moved to New York in 2017, I lived in a one bedroom in Kew Gardens that I shared with two other girls who I meet on a Facebook group for Pace University students. The following year in 2018, my husband and I decided we wanted to move in together. My then-boyfriend (now-husband), who I had met in high school, had already been accepted to Cooper Union. My mom and I packed as much of my stuff as our Toyota Camry could handle and drove for 12 hours straight so I could start my new life. I felt it was a city of endless possibilities and how could a college student say no to that?
Still, I thought it was a good idea and took the leap. Before I moved here, I had never even been to NYC. However, NYC has quite the allure, so I moved here in fall of 2017 to attend Pace University to major in acting on film and tv. I was born and raised in Chicago, and I’ll always be a Midwestern girl at heart. Now, nearly six months later, she finds the vibrancy of living above a subway station outweighs the drama. On moving day, she was shocked to find that she was going to be living on top of the Marcy Avenue subway station. Still an apartment listing that said it was “by transportation” seemed like a plus, so she decided to just go with it. Tierney, a Midwestern transplant, knew moving into a New York City apartment sight unseen was a risky thing to do.
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