Also, Request for Information

[ashnistrike]

My much smarter younger sister, who has a more excitingly stressful life than mine, is starting grad school at Columbia in the fall.  Since I know more people in the New York area than she does, I told her I'd put out feelers about housing and tips for finding it.  She's looking for something near the Morningside campus, or nearby in Brooklyn.  And cheap.  Housemates okay, as long as they're sane.

She wishes me to be explicit that she already knows about checking Craigslist.  (What she actually said, eyes wide, was, "What is this list of Craig of which you speak?"  If you know her, you know the voice I'm talking about.)

In addition to the unlikely possibility that someone has knowledge of an actual affordable studio apartment in Manhattan, she's also looking for things like, "Don't look in X neighborhood; none of them will talk to people with black belts in obscure Indonesian martial arts," or "All the leases in Y neighborhood turn over in July; you can get a better deal if you're willing to move in a month early."  Unsolicited advice is officially solicited.

Comments

[page-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Buy up by me?

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I don't think she'll be buying. Her savings are mostly going to the part of grad school that scholarship isn't covering. She's looking to rent.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

We'll probably call you to ask about things in the area some time in the next few days. (For reasons behind vagueness in plans, see previous entry.)

[redbird]

Unless she's specifically fond of Brooklyn, Inwood is closer to Columbia and probably cheaper (or lots closer, if you're in further-out Brooklyn).