Tips For Living On A 3rd Floor Walkup

I currently live in a third floor unit which also happens to be the top floor of the building.

Tips for living on a 3rd floor walkup. Advertisement i can speak from the experience of having lived on the second floor and then moving. I checked out my rule of thumb with a search of for sale apartments in manhattan with the phrase walk up. A bottom floor apartment too boasts some enticing amenities. Pros and cons of living on the bottom floor.

This time i thought i d focus on something else i know quite a bit about. When i see people that live on the 2nd floor who have gone downhill physically yet still have to get the groceries in i often wish there were some sort of device that could be used to haul up the. If your apartment s safe place has a heavy piece of furniture such as a large table get under that for extra. Once you have relocated to your safe place lie down on the floor and cover yourself up with pillows blankets and even mattresses for protection from falling objects and debris.

I live in brownstone brooklyn where most apartment buildings are 4 story walkups. There is no noise from upstairs. Bugs and other pests typically live in or on the ground outside so they re more likely to infest apartments that are closer to where they live in nature. On the flip side a top floor apartment means lugging groceries up stairs and worrying about roof leaks.

When i first moved to manhattan i lived on the sixth floor of a walk up tenement. Which floor the apartment is on likely falls into this category and there are pros and cons for each floor. I was young and so excited to finally be living in nyc in an apartment i could afford alone the stairs didn t. We asked five new yorkers if given a choice they d prefer the ground floor or the top floor of a walk up.

First floor front apartment values are diminished by the close proximity to the sidewalk street noise and in many cases smells from trash cans that are kept at the front of the building. Other apartment safety tips. In my previous column i gave some tips for surviving in a tenement sized apartment. There are countless benefits to living in a building with no elevator especially if you re on the top floor like i almost always have been.

If the 3rd floor isn t the top then a lot of the pros are moot points and thus provide for a lot more cons pros. Third floor units often offer vaulted ceilings which are cool for aesthetic but bad for budgets. Surviving in a walk up. I am in a senior community and while i am on the ground floor there are a lot of people living on the second floor high as it goes.

There s a smattering of newer bigger elevator endowed buildings but 4 5 stories is typical.