The Times did a lengthy piece on the far west side extending from 33rd street to 43rd between 10th avenue all the way west. It’s hard to call this part of town a “neighborhood”, but with the arrival of mammoth developments like the Silver Towers and the Atelier on 42nd street, there has been a population boom around here. It wasn’t always so happening though, a former local garage owner’s charming description is “ all you had was prostitutes, pimps, more prostitutes, more pimps, drug dealing like you’ve never seen before. It was a horrible place to be” back in the 1970′s. Though it’s changed a lot from those days, it’s still not impervious to post-recession fallout. Some failures in the area include ” A tower planned for the eastern end of the Moinian Group’s property on 42nd Street, next to the Atelier by 11th Avenue, has not materialized; the site has received numerous citations from city authorities for standing water. And nearby branches of a Crunch gym and Starbucks recently closed .” So what’s the pricing looking like in an area where you can’t even get a Frappuccino? “Prices at the other new buildings in the area are similar, s tarting around $2,100 for studios, $3,000 for one-bedroom apartments, and $4,000 for two-bedrooms. At the Atelier, one-bedroom condos sell for $650,000 to $1 million, and two-bedrooms are $1.2 million to $1.5 million .” What do you guys think, would you drop this kind of cash to call the far west side home? · A Frontier With a View on the Far West Side of Manhattan

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Far West Side Story: For the Far West Side, A Boom (And Some Failures)