Thats just sick pricing man,, 3,700 for a 2.5 .. wow pricing has really shot up.

It is sick pretty much everywhere. I am renting a nice sized one-bedroom in a nice doorman co-op building in Greenwich Village. I pay $2,950 and am getting a steal since it is a co-op.

jws, can you post pics to give an idea of what we can get? That's more-or-less the top of my range. What does the coop entail?

(edit: obv no pressure, since it's your personal space. Totally understand if you don't want to.)

This is the best place to search:
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/rentals/ny...%20or%20school

You can even search by street name if you'd like and you will get an aggregate of all listings, usually with pics.

Please note that most NYC apartment pics turn out ****ty because of the small spaces

Agree that Streeteasy is the best. I knew I wanted to live close to some buddies who are at 7th and Charles in the West Village and my GF lived on Bank off of West 4th. Also wanted to be close enough to catch the 6 train, so basically walked from 4th to 7th Ave. on 15th, 14th, 13th, 12th, 11th and 10th and wrote down the address of every doorman building. Looked them all up on streeteasy and found a few with apartments in my price range.

Might have pics at home but to give an idea, I have a separate kitchen that is narrow but has a full oven, dishwasher and fridge at the expense of little counter space. Bedroom is probably 11x15 with a bathroom right outside. Main room serves as living room (and could serve as dining room if I wanted) and is probably 12x28.

Is Streeteasy usable for summer purposes, or is it mostly going to be for longer leases? At first glance it seems more like the latter, but I may be missing something.

It is for longer. To be honest I am not really sure how people do short-term rentals other than NYU housing over the summer and through Craigslist.

Would have to imagine there are good NYC subletting sites but I have never used them.

WELL, the village is one thing, BK is another, then again, i still think its 1992 sometimes, so my memories of williamsburg etc . are a little jaded .

I dont like doormen buildings.. dont you feel it like an invasion of privacy?

My first gf was a girl who lived in Battery park and getting past the doorman was a pain in the ass, i think it even caused our breakup.

The village is an awesome place to live but definitely not cheap. I could have the same apartment in a brand new building with gym, roofdeck, etc. (i.e. alot more amenities) for a couple hundred bucks cheaper but would have to live on like 10th Ave. in Chelsea.

I work in finance and order pretty much everything from Amazon so given my hours either need a doorman or a live-in super who takes packages.

I like the doorman, helps out with a few things and such, but my building is a bunch of old jewish hippies anyway. Not sure I would like a stuffy upper east side doorman building the same, but at mine I am pretty sure most of the marijuana I smell comes from the old people. I tip them well at Christmas and don't bother them much and they do the same for me.

brooklyn is both much less cool and more cool than you remember it I love this place with all my heart which i doubt many people can now say about manhattan. lower manhattan will always be cool but it's quickly being usurped by brooklyn (and LIC!!!) and we're happy to be doing our own thing. williamsburg is a caricature of itself at this point, though.

UWS/UES and Hells Kitchen, One bedrooms exist everywhere for 1850 - 2500. One method to go around a broker, try to sneak into a building you like and somewhere in the vestibule there will be a notice of who owns that building (if its a brownstone--if its a doorman just ask them who owns the building) and then do some research call them, and more times than not that company has an office and you can either go in, leave your ID and they will give you keys or they have a Property Manager who will show you all their vacant apartments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaBhnlZgNIo

Look into Stuyvesant, I had a true 3 BR for 3k. Stuytown has parks, is close to the L, and right at the top of the east village. It was the last place we looked at after looking all over LES/EV/UES and turned out to be the best thing possible.

Unless you have a family or are just out of college I would avoid living in Hoboken unless you can find rent for significantly cheaper.

FiDi is also a great place to look if you just want to be in Manhattan. The night life sucks but you can get into a nice building w/ amenities for cheaper than most other neighborhoods.

Also, don't pay a broker, you don't need one and they are overpriced and provide no value. You need to do more research yourself this way, but it isn't hard. Manhattan rentals move quick, you'll likely end up in a place that only was listed in the last month (or sooner) so you need to stay on top of all the sites.

For those of you in the east village apparently 2p2's very own Commodus is filming a movie on 10th street, 2nd avenue. I just walked passed all the cameras and trailers

Guys,

I am going to be heading to Manhattan in June. JUst wondering about Hotels to stay at during that time??? I was thinking of somewhere like Helmsley Park Lane Hotel near Central Park. Any ideas?? Would it be better not to stay in Manhattan??