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Monday, August 28, 2006

In a basement surrounded by Jews


After being back in the US for just six days, I found a new apartment. This is quite a feat, as I've been told it is really difficult to find descent safe apartments for an affordable price. For example, apartments in Manhattan cost $1500 for some studios and recently I saw an advertisement at NYU for a 3-bedroom apartment for $3500 per month! My new apartment (rented on August 25th for $720 per month) is located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood, where most residents are orthodox Jew. My studio apartment is about 300 square feet in the basement of an office building. Above me is a psychologist's office called the "Phobia Life Line" and beside me in the basement is a podiatrist's office. It's really just one big room with a kitchen on one side and a couch and desk on the other. The couch is my bed!


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, Sam, nice appartment;-) You slept on the couch again? ;-) I know that you loved to sleep in your couch when you were in China. Surrounded by Jews? You can get to see different things;-)

I didn't know you had updated your blog;-) It looks nice and very resourceful. Will follow it in the future and look forward to more interesting stories;-)