A Renter Wanted to Return to Her Childhood Neighborhood. Could She Still Afford It?
New York TimesMarilyn Ramirez immigrated from the Dominican Republic with her parents when she was a toddler, and spent her early years on West 207th Street, in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. The apartment was “on the fifth floor, back, and that’s where I lived for 15 years,” she said. “That’s why I said I will never live in a fifth-floor walkup, and I want my apartments to look to the front.” Ms. Ramirez, 51, had brief stints in Miami Beach, Yonkers, N.Y., and New Jersey. “I wrote it in my vision board,” said Ms. Ramirez, a graduate of Fordham University, who teaches at the High School for Media and Communications. “I am a goal-oriented person, and everything I have achieved in my life began with a set intention and an actionable goal.” The Bronx lease expired in the spring, so despite the pandemic, Ms. Ramirez contacted Bryan Anthony Portalatin, an agent at Bohemia Realty Group, and prepared to move.
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