Hooray!

It was tough for us to give one of those up when we moved back in the late 90s.

I understand why you'd want a rent-stabilized apartment, but why do people want prewars?

Oh, Alon. I'm guessing you don't like here in NYC. We love prewar aparements for the high ceilings, the original moldings, the fireplaces, and the wooden floors... prewar apartments have character.

Jessica - how??????

Ditto to what DT said, plus prewars tend to be bigger.

And as to how...try five months of searching. ;)

Well you certainly have found the Holy grail of City living, take it from someone who lived in Boston for a few years where the rents are equally as astronomical. The apartment my boyfriend and I have now in Vermont has 4 rooms not including the bathroom and kitchen and we only pay $800/month. Our first "Broke as hell grad student" apartment in the student ghetto of Boston was a lot smaller and 400 bucks more per month

Wow, congratulations. I remember trying to find anything in Toronto I could afford as a graduate student. Not fun. One of the nice things about living in the middle of nowhere is paying $600 for a two-bedroom.

Oh, I do like it here in New York. I just live in a crappy Columbia-assigned dorm room that costs me $765/month. It's prewar, but there are no moldings or fireplaces anywhere in sight.

I had that holier grail -- a rent-CONTROLLED NYC apartment, a one-bedroom in Stuvestant Town for $325 in 1981.

So I searched high and low in Los Angeles, and now am grandfathered into a two bedroom rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica (near the beach) for $874 per month.

If you're gonna be writer, grad student, artist, etc. ya gotta get that rent control, if it still exists anywhere.

please, please tell me: how is this possibly done? my boyfriend and i have been looking for affordable real estate forever. we're about to settle on queens...

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