Merry Christmas! Please don't be so rude this holiday season.
The transit workers start in the $50,000 range. With overtime, etc., many are in the $80,000 range, some union members are even in the six figures.
You say yourself apartments in Queens start at $125,000. You can't afford that if you make $60-70-80K? And you say wife and kids? You mean the wife doesn't work? What a luxury! If you're like most couples, the wife works, and hey, that should make over $100,000 a year for most transit worker households. Yes, there are places to live in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn ... and Westchester! See: Mount Vernon, Yonkers, New Rochelle.
8+ million people live in NYC. The majority somehow get by on less than $100,000 a year.
Myself? I'm 44, born and raised in NYC. I make less than $100,000 a year, and I own a house in Westchester. My wife doesn't work full-time. How do we do it?
Merry Christmas!
Must be a transit worker...and they say its the public that is rude....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Merry Christmas to all the NYC transit workers that now will work a few extra days w/o pay for their leaderless shenanigans....
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That's not even close to accurate. And, you say that you and your wife own a home in Westchester making less than $100k then ask how you do it...easy if you bought more than eight or ten years ago...impossible if you're looking to buy today...but you knew that.
And Merry Christmas to you too.
I just checked out prices from my old neck of the woods, the Rockaways, which is a section of Queens. Here's a sample:
CO-OPs: Studio, with a sleeping Alcove - $179,000.00 (plus maintenance of $431.76 per month)
1 bedroom (800 sf) = $250,000 + maint
2 bedrooms = $309,000 + maint
Both my late husband and I worked for the City. He was a TBTA Officer who was killed on the job and I was the payroll manager at an HHC hospital. We could not afford to buy a house in NYC and rented a two-bedroom apartment.
As stated by another poster, with few execptions, City employees must reside within the five boros.
When I retired (under the 25/55 plan which I contributed to) and moved to Florida I was amazed that I could buy three houses, on seven acres, on a private lake for less than I was paying for rent in NYC.
Merry Christmas from warm, sunny Florida!