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ElleGeeAitch t1_izg7rg0 wrote

Reply to comment by Laraujo31 in Is moving to NJ (JC/Hoboken/Weehawken) from Florida worth it to live and experience NYC? by virginiarph

We moved to Weehawken earlier this year and in the times we've gone into Manhattan to see shows, the trips from bus stop to the Port Authority and vice versa have been 10 minutes, with frequent buses and a 5 minute walk from my apartment to the bus stop.

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virginiarph OP t1_izg86py wrote

Hello this is valuable info! If you have anymore info about living in the area in regards to me other req (walkable, dense, car dependency, parking, vegan friendly eateries, access to nature) please provide input!!

ANy and ALL info about the busses out to manhattan are appreciated. Especially during the 7om-1am time would be great.

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ElleGeeAitch t1_izgdqzn wrote

We live by Hamilton Park which is small, but lovely and has a fabulous view of NYC. Weehawken is an odd town that was slapped together from 3 different disparate towns in the 1800s (The Shades borders Hoboken and used to be part of Hoboken, the part of town that goes along Palisade Avenue used to be part of neighboring Union City). Living here might be more convenient with a car, but we are carless and do fine between buses, walking and Uber when necessary. Very walkable in the area we are in that borders Union City. I honestly don't know about vegan restaurants, but lots of Latino restaurants in Union City and we're a hop and a jump from Hoboken. I am from Jersey City, my husband had lived in Hoboken for years before we married and moved to the Jersey City Heights where we lived for 16 years (I had lived my first 32 years in the Journal Square Area). We honestly are kicking ourselves for not considering Weehawken a decade + ago. We wish we'd bought a house back when the market wasn't as crazy. We moved for the combined middle/high school for our son, he was previously homeschooled and we moved for the tiny but good school system. Very happy with our choice!

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djn24 t1_izj4dg5 wrote

Check out Happy Cow for the area. The Jersey side of the river has a decent amount of vegan options. Manhattan and Brooklyn will blow your mind with how many vegan options there are.

Living in Jersey lets you access everything in NYC but also lets you easily get in your car and leave the region to try other places. Philly has a great vegan food scene, and there's a lot of cool stuff happening North in the Hudson Valley (Beacon, Kingston, New Paltz, Albany, and Schenectady all have good vegan spots).

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ElleGeeAitch t1_izggfdb wrote

Feel free to PM me if you want to chat more about the area.

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