Article: Upper East Side vs. Upper West Side: Read This Before You Rent a One-Bedroom.

In these days of bitterly expensive apartments for the young and the restless, the late October news of declining Manhattan rents came as a pleasant surprise. The news (PDF) came from The Real Estate Group New York, a brokerage that analyzed rents in apartment buildings below 100th Street. Manhattan's two biggest neighborhoods by area-the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side-both showed monthly declines in rents on average.

But which truly offers a better deal on one-bedrooms?

Our investigations show the Upper East Side as the cheaper market, despite the lower Upper West Side average from The Real Estate Group's report.

The report shows Upper East Side rents ...

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