Would you happen to have any advice on finding roommates? I don't know anyone else from my internship who is moving to NYC. I'm from Baltimore (hence the username) where finding your own place for $1300 a month in a relatively nicer area is not difficult at all. I think I have been looking for places for myself rather than looking for something with other people. I have a solid budget of $10k which the company is giving me to move out and rent for 3 months on top of solid hourly pay.

Thank you for letting me know I have been getting mixed advice from people around me in person.

You’re right building literally no additional commercials units or housing means that these existing bodegas would be there forever. 🙄

You think the multi million dollar brownstones DT JC 10 min from lower manhattan would be available for pennies if they didn’t build more dense housing ?

I forget, that worked for soho right? Still the cheap drug artist den ? I mean they’ve been fighting rezoning since forever. The village? They’re still affordable, I mean don’t see any new luxury buildings there so they must be

A foot massage in the morning and a a hand….at night

Yeah because it used to be 10 people in a bedroom, let’s not go back to tenement housing

$2K/month stipend.

Call parking authority and non emergency police explain the move and someone is parked there. Give details on parked car

Your account number is the only thing a company needs to switch you to an alternate energy provider. All you need to do is show them a copy of your bill (or tell them the number over the phone) and they will switch you against your will. At that point your supply charges (which pays for poles and power lines into your house) still goes to PSE&G but rather than choose the cheapest available power generator, you now buy your power from whatever company you switch to.

People sometimes do this because they want their power bill to go toward some kind of environmentally friendly company but rarely will switching ever save you money. If someone cold calls or approaches you, it's a scam.

1BR From 3400-> $3800 per month. Doorman building near exchange place/ Grove Street/ Newport PATH general area.

My partner wants a doorman building due to sense of safety so I'm stuck with these crazy high rise rents.

I dream of ~3 years ago when a 3 BR 2BA I split with roommates in the best location in a subway rich area of NYC was nearly the same price all in ($4300 total now it's going for $6k last I checked).

They try and get you to sign up with an energy company that purports to be much cheaper than PSEG. And they are... for the first month or two, and then the rates jump up, but you're locked into a contract and are stuck paying more.

What happens when you get hit by a car, but it’s not enough to go to the hospital? Do you exchange insurance information? Do you sue the driver? Do you call the police?

It feels like they should not drive away with peace of mind.

Yeah it amazes me people still don’t get this.

I heard it’s another smoke shop

/r/NYC /r/AskNYC

But you know, you can just use the JC library system.

What is the scam?

Last time I did it Parking Authority gave me a phone number to call (I think you just call Parking Authority? Can't remember for sure). So if that happens just call them, they'll try to contact the owner of the vehicle to move it and/or ticket them.

To be fair I had no problems with this, people either avoided parking there or they just kind of idled temporarily before the moving truck came by.

If you're looking at an Airbnb in that building, make sure it is permitted and licensed. You don't want to be kicked out after a week if it turns out the building doesn't allow sublets or short term rentals.

I agree - I’m convinced that with a little bit of enforcement drivers would stop treating downtown as some kind of lawless shortcut freeway…OP - this happened to me so frequently I stopped walking through the Hamilton Park / Harismus Cove area altogether because my life just felt too threatened on a daily basis. I take Newark Ave now, which feels slightly safer.

Specifically on 2nd and Monmouth: If you're crossing Monmouth, just wait until both traffic lights turn red because one turns red while the other remains green.

1st street between Coles and Monmouth has poor street lighting at night, tho. Otherwise, fine.

What type of apartment do you have, where is it, and what is the new rent offer?

I’d beeline to the waterfront on Columbus if I was you. Drivers don’t stop at stop signs around here so it gets dangerous running side streets.

Interestingly there are still fewer people living in JC today than there were 100 years ago. Jersey City, New Jersey - Wikipedia NYC has grown, but only by 10-20% in 100 years.

Meanwhile 100 years ago the whole of Florida had less than a million people.

Yeah I'm in JSQ and run Montgomery down Columbus and then go to hoboken.

Or I do loops around liberty or Lincoln Park

30min also is highly dependent on pace.

Like, do people actually not understand the massive discounts that were being offered in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID? Rents were obviously going to normalize when the world went back to normal, people.