Yep...just moving a block away into a one bedroom cost us almost $10k just to make the move. First month, last month, security and movers.

I suggest you to find a roommate, and split the fee.

I rented various apps over the last years in NY. From $750 a week (near lafayette avenue) up to $5,000 a month in the Chelsea area. But in the end, it wasnt worth staying in any of those places. Its fun to be in New York, but at the end i felt much safer and "at ease" in Miami. Although im not living there anymore either.

You have to make sure you really are suited to live in a big city. If you didnt grow up there, its hard to adjust and acclimate to the way of living. And with a budget of $1500 i wouldnt recommend it. Why not find a nice quite place in a state where you pay $1200-1400 for a home, instead of renting a small app in a bad "hood".

Maybe check out this site: http://www.roommateclick.com/new-yor...ate/listings/h

try getting a room in a dingy hotel for a month first and see how u like it :2 cents:

Sure, you can sleep in the Subways.

Whats so funny? There are nice neighboorhoods in both of these boroughs.
And second - why does everybody asume (it may be true, but why the asumption?) that he wants to live in manhatten? Thread title and first post clearly states NYC. Means that Broklyn, Quens are as much NYC as Manhatten is. (Educate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City)

It's no different in any other major city. Come to the Bay Area and see what you get for $1500/mo. Not much, I'll tell you that. And it'll be in Oakland or Hayward.

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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.

Exactly. It's possible. Not convenient nor comfortable though.

Upper west side. My brother lives there.

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.