New York Post

Move up in the world

NYers could afford to live anywhere else

- By AMBER JAMIESON ajamieson@nypost.com

No matter where you live in New York City, you can afford to live in the nicest neighborho­ods in the world’s best cities, a new realestate survey shows.

Residents of Harlem, for example, would save cash by moving to the Eighth Arrondisse­ment in Paris, home to the glamorous ChampsÉlys­ées because the average cost per square foot is higher in Harlem ($963 vs. $944), according to a new comparison map developed by Neighborho­odX, a realestate Web site.

Artsy East Village residents would pay a nearly identical price per square foot ($1,354) in the sandstone terraces of Belgravia in London, where Russian oligarchs buy homes for $150 million ($1,367 per square foot).

Denizens of East New York in Brooklyn pay $303 per square foot for a typical twobedroom apartment. For $24 more, they could lift a pint in a flat in Old Town in Edinburgh, Scotland, and dwell among a maze of medieval cobbleston­e streets where author J.K. Rowling lived while writing about Harry Potter.

Constantin­e Valhouli, the founder of Neighborho­odX, a new site that provides consumers neighborho­odlevel realestate data, calls the chart the “Fk it” map.

As in, “Fk it. I’m sick of New York. Where else in the world can I afford to live?”

The data shows “our regular existence here could afford an incredible existence there,” said Valhouli.

Mayor de Blasio’s old ’hood of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where prices average $1,098 per square foot, is priced similarly to Leblon, the most exclusive beachside suburb of Rio de Janiero, walking distance from the famed Ipanema and Copacabana beaches.

Apartments in Queens’ Murray Hill cost an average $482 per square foot, pricier than the fanciest section of Madrid, an embassy enclave called Salamanca ($454).

Morissania in The Bronx, one of the Big Apple’s most affordable nabes at $231 per square foot, is on par with the plush Kolonaki area in Athens, Greece ($228), where residents walk in the footsteps of Plato, Socrates and Alexander the Great with views of the Acropolis.

Valhouli says he wants the map “to fuel that fantasy” and show that it’s actually attainable.

“We’re so used to the New York prices being standard, we forget there’s whole other parts of the world,” he said.

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