Any helpful input here would be appreciated.

Is FiDi reasonable if I am working near rockefeller center? If not any suggestions for places around there would be great.

 
cheese86:
Why not live in a dumpster and save all of your first year salary? You will have no rent and if you're lucky you can find some food scraps too.

Beat you to it IlliniProgrammer!

Haha, +1 SB for sticking it to IP, lol. All in good fun though.

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$1500 won't get you much if you're looking at studios.

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brooksbrotha:
I did searching for apartments online and $1500 is reasonable for FiDi 600 sq ft by myself. I should have mentioned though, it would be $1500/person with 3 people total.

Thats a significant difference... But as a chick id prefer to go to Brklyn to your own apartment instead of worrying about your buddies hearing all the moans and groans through the crappy blow up wall you'll have to put up to make that 1 or 2 bedroom into a 3 bedroom.

 

I was on the mailing list but still was blindsided when the app opened up. You need to apply pretty much within the first day, maybe even the first few hours.

My buddies and I applied on the 3rd day (btw if you want to live with friends you need to all sit down in a room and apply w/in 30 mins of each other) and literally got the last spot in dorms: the f'ed up Rubin Hall built in like 1840.

Stay as far away from Rubin Hall as possible. No AC, but at least it's close to Union Sq (4 blocks south). The best are UHall (gym) and Carlisle right on the square.

 

I wouldn't recommend anywhere else. NYU is definitely the best deal with a great location (assuming you're placed in either UHall or Carlyle). Fairly large rooms with AC - overall nice accommodations. Additionally, if, in fact, you do have a few early nights, there are some beautiful women in those buildings. It was always a good night treat when i pulled up in my cab and saw a bunch of drunken broads in miniskirts. :)

 

craigslist is always a good place to look despite what many people may think. I was able to get a place right near times square (40th and 8th), for 1600 (which I split 2 ways with a roommate). There are definitely places with deals and although the place was pretty small it worked well. As for straight location for price, East village isnt bad,

 

i lived in carlyle this past summer - was really awesome location wise, and my roomates were cool (didn't know any of them prior). everything is nearby, like groceries, food, clothing, and the NRW is right outside the door

unfortunatley i was either working on drinking, so i didn't spend much time in the door, but their def okay for the around 1200/month rent

 

oh re: the process: sign up early as hell as everyone has said - i registered a few hours after I could, and got one of the better ones (ie with AC). some of them are kinda crappy, with 3/room, and no ac, which would suck in the summer

if you have buddies you want to room with, do what the person suggested above, and sit in a room and sign up together

 

If NYU doesn't turn out right. Try finding a place in Hoboken or JC, very easy commute to the city... price might be around the same..

As mentioned, craigslist would be fine.

lastly, try other local schools

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I lived in Brittany Hall, which is in an excellent location (10th & Broadway), but has no A/C and little privacy. I'd only suggest living there if you NEVER plan on being in your room.

Then again, at 250/week (and that included a meal plan), it's hard to complain too much.

 

Places not to go is 55 John Street. The only thing going for it is the location (close to work). The security guard are real dicks for bringing guests, FiDi itself is nothing but an open sewer pit, the rooms are so tiny, the elevators are constantly broken, the first 4 floor are dedicated to this elementary age 12 year old camp and did I mention it is really expensive for what you get.

 

I believe usually like mid to late Feb.

Also, options are 1) Columbia (too far uptown though, but still around if you mess the NYU up) 2) School of Visual Arts 3) The New School

Does anybody know the school with dorms on the east side, maybe 51st and Lexington? Went home with a JPM summer there one night and they make you pay $40 bucks to go up....stay away, that could really crimp your game

 

best place to live as a SA in the city?

...how about your office?


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trade_nrg:
You can also check out the Marymount on 55th and 3rd if you want to live/work in midtown and not FiDi. It is really expensive though - $1500/month per person for a room that is pretty small but has a great view and is chalk full of finance/fashion interns.

So I went ahead and googled Marymount, and got its listing on this website Educational Housing Services. (http://www.studenthousing.org) Anyone have experience booking through this website? For the houses listed, is it possible to book directly?

For the price or $1500/month.. how much is NYU charging?

Thanks a bunch.

 

I booked through that website. I would recommend NYU over Marymount personally. I have lived at Marymount because it was close to Grand Central (I had to commute out to CT). And though the location is good and a lot of cool people live there, you are sharing a 2 bed/1 bath apt with 3 other people and it has a kitchenette (not a full kitchen). So you get cabin fever pretty quickly. If you are doing banking it doesn't matter because you will be working 24/7, but if you are doing S&T, then I would live somewhere will you will enjoy the place on the weekends.

 

I never had this problem because I've lived in Tribeca for 21 years, and just literally stayed home with mom and dad. But I would say go for craigslist. If you can, try to get to ny a few days early and stay with a friend, then look at five places on craigslist. You can get a better deal, not live in a dorm, and sometimes meet some cool people. I did that in London, and had a hot ass british girl for a roommate.

 
jack callahan:
"Luxury" in New York is just broker-speak for "doorman".

There are bona fide luxury buildings in NYC, including many conversions and new constructions in the Financial District, BPC, Midtown West near the Hudson River, LIC etc. These buildings not only have doormen but also hotel style concierge services, in-house gyms, lounges and sometimes swimming pools.

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I have absolutely no way of offering any meaningful advice without knowing from which particular city you will be based. If you goal is really to live as close to the biggest airport as possible, consider rooming with airport employees. I, for one, would hate living in close proximity to a major commercial airport for multiple reasons including: excessive noise, excessive pollution, lack of community, and a general poor quality of life. That being said, most airports are not that difficult to get to, even in NYC where it's 15 minutes from Midtown to LGA on a good day. Live in a decent area. Meet people. Enjoy work and do it all over again when you find yourself on a long-term assignment in a different city.

 
NoName:

Yeah, ask the people in your office. Ask HR. My firm gave me a cool map with pinpoints of where every consultant in the office lives, by level (Associate through Partner). A little creepy, but very helpful!

This is cool.

To elaborate on the original question, living near the airport seems like a terrible idea, financially. You would be paying out-of-pocket for cabs to go out on the evenings/weekends. If you live where you want to play (i.e. where everyone else is), the company is paying for your cab to the airport.

 

Live somewhere near a transport hub from where you can easily get to your office and go out on weekends.

Don't live near an airport- you'll be making that return trip at most once a week (and many weeks not at all) so there's no point in basing your life around saving 10 minutes on that journey

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Live in the part of town you plan on being in the most when you have down time. Living by the airport is a horrible idea. Airports are usually located far away from the most desirable places to live.

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money." - Mickey Bergman - Heist (2001)
 

While living near an airport might seem like a good idea at first, unless you are an airport employee it is a bad idea.

Let's just assume you are living by Newark airport, are you willing to pay $90+tip for the cab after a night of drinking with clients? If you want to have any kind of social life the further from airport the better.

 

here's how I found where I wanted to live:

  1. the actual houses available (in my price range, sqft I want, on-street/off-street parking; do a craigslist search using the map function and you should quickly gather what types of housing is in specific areas)

  2. commute (my area is rapidly growing and public transit hasn't caught up)

  3. proximity to amenities (gym, restaurants, bars)

  4. crime (you can look up crime maps of your area to see if it's sketchy)

best of luck, and I agree with other monkeys that if you tell us the city it would be helpful

 

In most business travel you end up going to and coming from the airport at odd times anyway: really early for departures or really late for arrivals when you're coming home (or really odd times so it doesn't matter) and you can expense your ground transport anyway. But as others have said, just name the city and you can probably get a better answer. For example, I wouldn't want to live near many airports but you don't want to necessarily live near JFK, BOS, LHR, SFO, PHL, MIA and many others (and not because they're absolutely horrible areas, but there's nothing there). I'd live as close to my office as possible. That's what you can control when you have any control over your schedule. I'm not a consultant and I know this is that forum, but I've done multiple years (like 10 years) of air travel of over 250k miles so live close to your office and the rest isn't in your control anyway.

 

No airport. You'll be travelling excessively and the last thing you want to see when you look out the window is another plane taking off (or hearing them at night).

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Williamsburg has become a new favorite among many finance people, much to the chagrin of the local hipsters. Move to Bushwick Brooklyn if you want to be edgy, by the Morgan Avenue L train station area.

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frozencheese:

Leaving out Manhattan, which of the boroughs in the next best to live in? Manhattan isn't an option for the next year, but I need to live in one of the other boroughs for job reasons.

Are you working for the city and required to live in the five boroughs? Are you trying to save money? You need to give us some more info about your situation.

 
OkComputer:

Not to hijack, but how is Jackson Heights?

Great if you travel a lot. Literally 5 minutes from LaGuardia with car service, for a grand total of $10 tips included. Also only 20 min to Midtown on the E during rush hours--- I used to take the E from 53rd and Lex to Roosevelt Ave Jackson Height then get a car from there to the airport, by far the most efficient way to get from the office (in Midtown) to the airport.

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