Hi, everybody! I’m moving to NYC for a job in the Financial District. The pay is not that great so I would love to find a 1 bedroom apartment or a studio for $2,000 or less.
I did a search on the forum and I found some older posts (from 2009 or so) when the rent market was really down. So those advises might not be true now.
My ideal place would be on a less crowded street that has some trees, and the apartement should have a decent kitchen and lots of windows for natural light and washer and dryer (at least in the building). I lknow, lots of requests…
Can I find anything cheap like that, maybe in East Village… I know some new buildings in Long Island City will have great places with great features, but would be a little far.
If you want your money to go further, move to an outer borough (there are very liveable, nice parts to both Brooklyn and Queens). If you want to live in an outer borough but avoid an awful commute, I would suggest that you find the subways lines that are nearest your office and try to find a nice spot along one of those lines. If you can live directly on the subway line that you take to work (without needing to transfer), you’ll make your commutes materially easier; changing trains during rush hour is awful.
I think the rents are way up than they used to be 3-4 yrs ago.
So you are saying if I were to wait 3-4 weeks I would have better chances to find something? What about if the company will have a broker to help me? Can they get better prices?
Hey man, I know you’re set on FiDi, but my buddy is going to Columbia for grad school and is looking for a rooommate. Let me know if you’re interested.
A really crappy studio (if that). The financial district has become a much hipper place than it was 3 years ago, tons more stores and shops along every street, the rents have SOARED.
I was looking just recently at areas around gramercy or murray hill (where supposidly college kids live), the apartments are literally hamster boxes and still mega expensive and people are still renting them. I think there are jail cell prisons larger then some of them. the rental market is searing hot
The rates are absurd nowadays. Even my friend, who lives in a Midtown walk up studio, pays $1500 a month for rent. On the filp side, I work with a girl who pays $1400 for a 3 bedroom in Crown Heights. With my salary, I’d have to live outside of a 2 hour radius of NYC in order to afford renting an apartment.
Lol, this does seem like another of Blake’s traps. If I suddenly disappear, you’ll know who’s behind it. I’m leaving my post count and status as boardmember to “monk”.
