COVID-Cautious New Yorkers Discovering Less-Dense Bayonne

  • Date: 09-Jul-2020
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Real Estate
  • Country:GCC
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COVID-Cautious New Yorkers Discovering Less-Dense Bayonne

Bay 151, a new apartment community in Bayonne, NJ. is among the fresh developments luring New ... [+] Yorkers from Manhattan and the Outer Boroughs to the wider open spaces.



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Ever since the pandemic began in earnest in March, we've heard a lot about New Yorkers exiting the city for distant places like Florida, or not-as-faraway spots like the Hamptons. With the city entering its latest reopening phase, emigres aren't journeying nearly so far. Neither are renters. While intent on sidestepping apartments in Manhattan, the outer boroughs and Jersey City, they still want quick, convenient commutes to Manhattan, and wouldn't mind a place boasting infrastructure enhancements and a lengthening roster of eateries and shops.



The answer? For many, it's Bayonne, N.J. The former manufacturing mecca has been reborn as a prime location for fresh new residential communities providing amenity-rich experiences not unlike their New York City peers. The one big difference offered by Bayonne - aside from a far more palatable price point “” is one highly prized in the COVID-19 era. That is lots of interior and exterior space in which to safely distance from other members of homo sapiens.



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