NYPD Social Life

[EricDel]

Hey this is question is specifically for guys that are on NYPD or were. How would you rate your social life outside the job living in NYC with your salary? I assume Manhattan is way to expensive to go out to on a regular basis so where do a lot of NYPD guys go and do. Just curious because I have no real experience being in NYC.

[bkny27]

NYC isnt the only place to go for a social life. Most of the NYPD lives in the surrounding boros or LI. The salary isnt that bad ither. I am only in the academy and I can afford to go out every weekend and pay all of my bills as well.

[NYCTNT]

Starting pay is like $42,000.


If you go broke on $42,000(starting), you have other problems.

I dont know why people have this mindset on NYC being so expensive to go out. It is not, as long as you stay away from the tourist spots.

Manhattan is NOT expensive to go out on a regular basis. Plenty of spots have $1 beer and $5 pitchers.

[EricDel]

Starting pay is like $42,000.


If you go broke on $42,000(starting), you have other problems.

I dont know why people have this mindset on NYC being so expensive to go out. It is not, as long as you stay away from the tourist spots.

Manhattan is NOT expensive to go out on a regular basis. Plenty of spots have $1 beer and $5 pitchers.


Like I said I'm not very familiar with the city and all I ever hear is that Manhattan is crazy expensive. So really the only big difference in NYC is the housing cost?

I've just been looking searching online for some apartments and have found some in Brooklyn and the Bronx. I assume both these places have their good and bad spots just like any other. Any suggestions where to look around there or atleast stay away from?

[BayRidge]

Like I said I'm not very familiar with the city and all I ever hear is that Manhattan is crazy expensive.

Manhattan bars can be expensive. There are also bars that you can find that are not THAT expensive. That being said, most bars in the city cost more than the surrounding boroughs. There are also a lot of places to hang out besides the city, for example: Brooklyn (which I am most familiar with). The beauty of living in or around the city is that the subway will take you to almost any bar you would want to go to anyway.

Any suggestions where to look around there or atleast stay away from?

I'm from Bay Ridge (<--------), which is in Brooklyn, and its pretty nice but also pretty expensive, as is Park Slope. I think Williamsburg would be a good place to look for housing. It has a good mix of affordability, nightlife, and proximity to the city.

[ItIsWhatItIs73]

nah man williamsburg is getting pretty expenisive with all those dam liberal yuppie hipster hippies

[sillyapple]

any place given out police discounts like military personels been receiving?

[BayRidge]

nah man williamsburg is getting pretty expenisive with all those dam liberal yuppie hipster hippies

Oh. Well my friend just moved out of there. He didn't make a lot of money as he was a waiter in a small restaurant but then again he lived in a warehouse-turned apartment complex. Maybe he got lucky with that apartment though. He was also a damn liberal yuppie hipster hippie.

[NYJets44288]

Greenpoint is headed in the same direction.

[reils49]

What's a hipster?

[GeneralMelchid]

reil49 this-, they need to be exterminated like cockroaches

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/07/09/13_hipsters_lg.jpg

http://fnxradio.com/blogs/sandbox/blog%20images/hipsters121307.jpg

[GeneralMelchid]

or these things toohttp://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article/files/0204hipsters.jpg

[reils49]

Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GeneralMelchid]

reils, there better used for target practice out on the range then for sucking up our precious air

[k85o911]

Has Greenpoint been taken over by the Williamsburg hipsters yet?

Yes it is taken over from the waterfront.....the rent is pushing out the spanish and polish who did not buy a house and the Polish who did are selling houses for minimum 1.2 million for a 3 family to run back to poland due to economic hardships in the Usa. I wonk the 94 precinct