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For $1500 TOTAL the only way to do it is either go to Brooklyn or Queens or the Bronx if you wanna live alone. be smarter to find a roommate, especially if you're just staying a year. Maybe $600-800, in Manhattan. You gotta look but you can find roomies at that price, even today. That leaves you $700 a month to eat, get around, etc. Can be done if you cook a lot, or can ferret out that $4.99 dinners and such.
But if you want on your OWN then you gotta look at either Washington heights, Inwood, the Bronx, way out in Brooklyn or Queens, basically 15-25 mins outside the city. But subways run ALL the time and they're fast. I live up by the GW Bridge and it takes me 20 minutes to get to midtown, another 5-8 for the Village.
Any way you slice it, tho, NYC is EXPENSIVE. Taxis, even subways if you use 'em a few times a day, eating, ANY kind of entertainment ($13 movies anyone?). Crazy. But then again, it's New York-fucking-CITY man, not wherever everybody else lives.
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