NYC NTers: Moving to NYC, need help finding an apartment

I used to live in the city, then moved to Boston, now I'm in Greenwich commuting in to NYC for work. I'll just recommend a place for you to look into: Stuyvesant Town in Gramercy. It's a pretty nice apartment community with a young, diverse group of tenants. They're also lowering their rental rates.

http://www.stuytown.com/

Also, try to find a roommate or two. A big thing to do in NYC is take a 2 bedroom and put up a wall to create 3 rooms, thus lowering your rent per person. Alot of complexes/management company's actually offer this service at the signing of your lease and put the wall up for you.

The good thing about NYC is there's always apartments available and can get one pretty quickly.
 
Craigslist actually has great apartments for rent. Only catch will be that you need like 3 months rent to move in or they'll post a brand new condo in the middle of a the hood and you wont even know it till you move in. Just make sure you know the neighborhood where the the apartment is located..hit me up if you need help on what areas to look for and which to avoid.
 
Craigslist actually has great apartments for rent. Only catch will be that you need like 3 months rent to move in or they'll post a brand new condo in the middle of a the hood and you wont even know it till you move in. Just make sure you know the neighborhood where the the apartment is located..hit me up if you need help on what areas to look for and which to avoid.
 
How much will you be making?

That'll determine what areas to look into.

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thanks to everyone for the input.

i am actually a really big fan of stuy town, a good friend of mine lives there and i had been staying there when i was traveling back in forth from providence to nyc for interviews.
i am a huge fan of utilites included haha, and the good sized bedrooms there.

i did an internship with merrill lynch in NYC down in the World Financial Center in 2007 for 6 months, so I am pretty familiar with the city, and know what areas to stay out of.

any other input is welcomed.
 
thanks to everyone for the input.

i am actually a really big fan of stuy town, a good friend of mine lives there and i had been staying there when i was traveling back in forth from providence to nyc for interviews.
i am a huge fan of utilites included haha, and the good sized bedrooms there.

i did an internship with merrill lynch in NYC down in the World Financial Center in 2007 for 6 months, so I am pretty familiar with the city, and know what areas to stay out of.

any other input is welcomed.
 
Originally Posted by Scarface2k1

Originally Posted by damnitzdom

I hear top hedge funders make $200,000 a hour.
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haha, yeah i wish.
im working for a boutique research/trading firm that main clients are hedge funds, i-banks, mutual funds, pension plans, and general institutions. the firm is only about 4 years old, so their is a significant business development role attached to it, and its very much client facing, i am looking forward to the opportunity and being part of building something from the ground up.
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Originally Posted by Scarface2k1

Originally Posted by damnitzdom

I hear top hedge funders make $200,000 a hour.
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haha, yeah i wish.
im working for a boutique research/trading firm that main clients are hedge funds, i-banks, mutual funds, pension plans, and general institutions. the firm is only about 4 years old, so their is a significant business development role attached to it, and its very much client facing, i am looking forward to the opportunity and being part of building something from the ground up.
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Originally Posted by kingofny04

Craigslist actually has great apartments for rent. Only catch will be that you need like 3 months rent to move in or they'll post a brand new condo in the middle of a the hood and you wont even know it till you move in. Just make sure you know the neighborhood where the the apartment is located..hit me up if you need help on what areas to look for and which to avoid.
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That's inaccurate in terms of every one of my experiences. I don't know who you've dealt with, but I've used craigslist to find two difference places, and those two times we probably looked at 8-10 options each. 100% of my experiences have been first and last months rent as a deposit in the areas that were advertised. This time around I got two extra months free and no inflated costs because of those free two months.

I'd say as a young professional, you'd wanna move to Murray Hill/Midtown East. Stuy town and the East Village are alright too (I Lived in the EV my first year, I live in Murray Hill now), although Stuy Town is still getting over that gigantic lawsuit where they overcharged or screwed thousands of people out of money...or something like that. It was a huge scandal. But the plus side is that it's kind of like an easy transition since there are a lot of younger professionals and NYU kids etc all around there.

Downtown in the financial area has good bang for your buck apartments, but they're cheap(er) because no one wants to live down all the way down there (so I'm told).

As far as craigslist, what people don't realize is that a MAJORITY of those listings are strategically placed in there by brokers (even if you click no broker fees, etc) to lure you in to their offices (as you sorta mentioned in your initial post). Once you're in, they show you the one place and then they try to seal you in by showing you a bunch of other places that are comparable. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but just be aware. Also, there is room to negotiate, price wise, no matter what a broker or whoever says.

I forget all the people I dealt with but I think it was Anchor Associates and Best Apartments inc or something like that. They're all legit and the 'no fee' thing can be a trade off for other options.
 
Originally Posted by kingofny04

Craigslist actually has great apartments for rent. Only catch will be that you need like 3 months rent to move in or they'll post a brand new condo in the middle of a the hood and you wont even know it till you move in. Just make sure you know the neighborhood where the the apartment is located..hit me up if you need help on what areas to look for and which to avoid.
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That's inaccurate in terms of every one of my experiences. I don't know who you've dealt with, but I've used craigslist to find two difference places, and those two times we probably looked at 8-10 options each. 100% of my experiences have been first and last months rent as a deposit in the areas that were advertised. This time around I got two extra months free and no inflated costs because of those free two months.

I'd say as a young professional, you'd wanna move to Murray Hill/Midtown East. Stuy town and the East Village are alright too (I Lived in the EV my first year, I live in Murray Hill now), although Stuy Town is still getting over that gigantic lawsuit where they overcharged or screwed thousands of people out of money...or something like that. It was a huge scandal. But the plus side is that it's kind of like an easy transition since there are a lot of younger professionals and NYU kids etc all around there.

Downtown in the financial area has good bang for your buck apartments, but they're cheap(er) because no one wants to live down all the way down there (so I'm told).

As far as craigslist, what people don't realize is that a MAJORITY of those listings are strategically placed in there by brokers (even if you click no broker fees, etc) to lure you in to their offices (as you sorta mentioned in your initial post). Once you're in, they show you the one place and then they try to seal you in by showing you a bunch of other places that are comparable. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but just be aware. Also, there is room to negotiate, price wise, no matter what a broker or whoever says.

I forget all the people I dealt with but I think it was Anchor Associates and Best Apartments inc or something like that. They're all legit and the 'no fee' thing can be a trade off for other options.
 
Originally Posted by Scarface2k1

thanks to everyone for the input.

i am actually a really big fan of stuy town, a good friend of mine lives there and i had been staying there when i was traveling back in forth from providence to nyc for interviews.
i am a huge fan of utilites included haha, and the good sized bedrooms there.

i did an internship with merrill lynch in NYC down in the World Financial Center in 2007 for 6 months, so I am pretty familiar with the city, and know what areas to stay out of.

any other input is welcomed.
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sweet. my brother lex used to work there.
 
Originally Posted by Scarface2k1

thanks to everyone for the input.

i am actually a really big fan of stuy town, a good friend of mine lives there and i had been staying there when i was traveling back in forth from providence to nyc for interviews.
i am a huge fan of utilites included haha, and the good sized bedrooms there.

i did an internship with merrill lynch in NYC down in the World Financial Center in 2007 for 6 months, so I am pretty familiar with the city, and know what areas to stay out of.

any other input is welcomed.
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sweet. my brother lex used to work there.
 
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