Our search for a new sublet has finally come to an end. We have found a great little alcove studio in the East Village that comes with all the essentials: AC, a queen bed, wireless internet, a kitchen, and a place to park our bicycles! We are so excited! For the last month, we have basically been living in a college dorm room with two college boys in what can only be described as the closest suburb to Manhattan, in Manhattan.
The suburb is called Stuyvesant Town. It is a large private residential development (about 4 blocks by nine blocks) at the top of the East Village. It is a post-war housing community, so there are many people who have lived there since World War 2 who still pay the same rent as they when they moved in after the war. One lady who lived next to our sublet payed somewhere between $400 and $500 per month! Anyways, since it's private, there are volleyball courts, and basketball courts, a big GRASSY park with a fountain, squirrels everywhere and a Sunday market. The property seems like a relatively quiet suburb. However, it is just a quick walk about a block or so back to the city away from all the grass.
We got a really great deal to sublet a guy's room in an apartment in Stuytown for July. The place was really large compared to most NY apartments and it had AC (which is necessary with this crazy heat wave we are having). Our least favorite thing about our old apartment was that our new roommates LOVE beer pong. Not love it like play a couple times a semester or a couple times a month but multiple times EVERY WEEK! All of their friends would come over sometimes till four or five in the morning- playing beer pong. . .
For a relatively small increase in rent, we are living in a nicer area (near Union Square), have no roommates, have a nice little kitchen, and most importantly- NO MORE BEER PONG!!!
The suburb is called Stuyvesant Town. It is a large private residential development (about 4 blocks by nine blocks) at the top of the East Village. It is a post-war housing community, so there are many people who have lived there since World War 2 who still pay the same rent as they when they moved in after the war. One lady who lived next to our sublet payed somewhere between $400 and $500 per month! Anyways, since it's private, there are volleyball courts, and basketball courts, a big GRASSY park with a fountain, squirrels everywhere and a Sunday market. The property seems like a relatively quiet suburb. However, it is just a quick walk about a block or so back to the city away from all the grass.
We got a really great deal to sublet a guy's room in an apartment in Stuytown for July. The place was really large compared to most NY apartments and it had AC (which is necessary with this crazy heat wave we are having). Our least favorite thing about our old apartment was that our new roommates LOVE beer pong. Not love it like play a couple times a semester or a couple times a month but multiple times EVERY WEEK! All of their friends would come over sometimes till four or five in the morning- playing beer pong. . .
For a relatively small increase in rent, we are living in a nicer area (near Union Square), have no roommates, have a nice little kitchen, and most importantly- NO MORE BEER PONG!!!
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