find your optimal nyc neighborhood

optimal nyc neighborhood locator

what is this?

given a set of locations you must commute to every week, and max-min constraints on rent and commute time, find your pareto-optimal neighborhood by minimizing either rent or commute time. every neighborhood is scored by median asking rent on (StreetEasy) against your trip-weighted door-to-door commute in minutes (fastest of transit or walking, chosen automatically per trip). set a rent cap and a commute cap, pick which one to optimize, and the best candidate lights up orange. blue = the pareto frontier. click any candidate for its exact routes based on mta traintimes. this is a static website and updates automatically.

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your journeys — weight = trips per week

candidates apartment size optimize for

rent cap ($/mo) no cap commute cap (avg minutes) no cap

view

top picks— rent— avg commute— within caps— pareto frontier—

the map

✕ = your destinations (drag to move) · click any neighborhood, stop, or tract for its routes

rent vs. commute

each dot one candidate · hover to identify · blue = pareto frontier, orange = argmin

best under your caps pareto frontier dominated faded = outside your caps

ranked by your objective, feasible first

blue edge = pareto frontier · orange row = argmin · links open live StreetEasy listings

#	candidate	borough	rent $/mo	min	within caps	listings