[NYC-L] Info. about accommodation in New York

[Etrit Bardhi]

Another excellent service is The Village Voice on the web.  They have a
big selection of apartments on their web site: www.villagevoice.com

Etrit.

On Sun, 6 May 2001 SimonVukel at aol.com wrote:

> Congratulations Imer on finishing your masters degree :-)
>
> Some suggestions on finding a place for the summer in NYC:
>
> 1) Get the NY Times or any other New York paper, preferably sunday edition,
> and look under "Sublets".  Sublets are apartments that people rent out for
> short periods of times, usually the summer.  (Usually people who have summer
> houses in the country and want to rent their apartment in the city, or
> students who return home for the summer but are locked into a year round
> lease.
>
> 2)  Check with local universities in NYC (NYU, Columbia, etc).  They
> sometimes will rent out apts to non-students because it is a source of income
> for them.  Or likewise, they might have listings somewhere of students
> looking to sublet their apartments for the summer.
>
> 3)  Do a search on the web as well for the above.
>
> 4)  Ask your contact at the law firm for help -- if you're an intern they are
> used to handling interns and may very likely have suggestions on where to
> live.
>
> 5)  If all else fails contact a rental agency or real estate agent in NY, but
> really try to avoide those bceause they will take a commission, likely a
> month's rent.
>
> 6)  Apartments in Queens or Brooklyn will probably cost you less than in
> manhattan.
>
> Good luck!
> -simon
>
>