Here are the most popular New York City neighborhoods for new graduates
New York City is the greatest city in the world, and it draws people looking to find their fortune from just about everywhere.
Next Step Realty, a New York City real-estate brokerage that matches recent graduates and young professionals with luxury apartments, shared data with Business Insider on over 1,000 2016 graduates and the neighborhoods they moved to from May through July of this year.
Next Step CEO and cofounder Blair Brandt told Business Insider that "the Upper East Side is officially no longer the highest-volume weapon of choice in the NYC neighborhoods for the freshman class of NYC. That baton was passed back to Murray Hill and Kips Bay in 2016 vs. 2015, although the two have gone back and forth over the years due to competitive prices on Upper East Side and Murray Hill's concentration of young professionals, as well as proximity to increasingly Midtown-located employers."
The 10 most popular areas for Next Step's customers include several locales that have long been home to New York's elite:
(Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Next Step)
Seeing as we are looking at apartments in Manhattan and Brooklyn, rent is not cheap. Among those 10 most popular neighborhoods, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment for Next Step's clients ranges from $2,400 a month in Alphabet City and the Upper West Side to $4,128 in the West Village:
(Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Next Step)
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