You can get pretty decent basement or walkin apartment for $600-800 month 30 minutes by train from down town Manhattan which places you in Brooklyn.

Staten Island, is pretty much New York ( Manhattan )!!

http://propimages.apartments.com/127...9/FL010164.JPG

$850 month.

Where's the bedroom?


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Well, mty younger days with urge for New York i had no complains :)
So, if you mean is there any place to have sex, i'd say there is plenty of.
Or effing go to Brooklyn :)

In the living room.

Sorry dude but Staten Island is NOT "pretty much New York". Sure, snicker, it's a fucking Borough, but it's really the Island of fucking FREAKS if you ask me. Provincial, in-bred weirdos live on Staten Island and no self-respecting human being would ever set foot on it.

Just watch Working Girl for confirmation. it's like that, still, to this day, only worse.

You sleep on the couch.

Can the people replying in this thread please keep in mind the original poster meant $1500/mo rent, not what was left over for food etc.

What kind of place can you get for $1500/mo rent, and how much will it cost for a decent place?

From reading this thread, looks like $1500 barely covers basic rent

you can do better somewhere else

Best bet for that dollar amount is to look for a bigger place with a roommate. If that is out of the question. You might be able to find a small studio for that price in an old walkup building somewhere. I live in a doorman luxury building I pay 1700 for a small studio. But there is a gym, free bike storage, private lounge with a 200 inch projector. Some of the other buildings have pools and such. You can always live either in Jersey City or Brooklyn, which is about 10 minutes outside of Manhattan for the $1500. They are both very up and coming.