Somehow, when elsewhere you said Kips Bay, I thought Brooklyn and Sheepshead Bay. Don't know why I did that. That would have been a long commute to Manhattan. Having lived on the East Side during my teenage years, I should know better. Heck, I spent a night in a ward at Bellevue Hospital that I still remember.
You actually are not moving that far as the crow flies (should crows dare to fly in NYC :) ). Of course, one does not measure distance in NYC using miles.