{"id":465,"date":"2006-03-09T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T01:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T01:06:42","slug":"in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in New York. Whoa. Dude. It’s actually been pretty hectic. I’ve spent several hours the last couple days looking at apartments with an apartment broker from Citi Habitats<\/a>. I actually applied for a nice 1BR on the edge of Chelsea yesterday, even though it was a bit out of my price range. Unfortunately, the landlord got other applications and is now dithering as to who to accept, so we looked at a bunch more places today. Depending on what happens with the first place, I may apply for a studio I looked at today up near Carnegie Hall. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

I am a bit shocked by how small New York apartments are. And how expensive. It’s especially a culture shock coming from a soft rental market like the Bay Area, where I just rented out my gorgeous 2BR\/2BA place, 1200 square feet with a view, decked out with black slate tile floors for $1500\/month. On Manhattan, $1500\/month doesn’t even get me a 200 square foot studio with no windows. At least in the hip neighborhoods of Chelsea and Greenwich Village where I started out looking. I expanded my search today.<\/p>\n

I’m still pretty freaked out. I’m hoping that will die down once I actually have a place and start work and have some structure in my life again.<\/p>\n

P.S. Amusing note of the day – my hotel is near Koreatown, so I went to a Korean restaurant for dinner this evening. There was a woman playing the kaya-gum<\/a>, which is kind of like a zither or harp. It provided a nice atmosphere. At some point during the evening, though, my brain noticed something was wrong. It took me a couple moments of listening to realize that the kaya-gum player was now covering the song Yesterday, by the Beatles. That sounded really weird because I knew the song, but the instrument is wired in my brain as playing distinctively Asian pentatonal melodies. She later threw in Imagine, as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in New York. Whoa. Dude. It’s actually been pretty hectic. I’ve spent several hours the last couple days looking at apartments with an apartment broker from Citi Habitats. I actually applied for a nice 1BR on the edge of Chelsea yesterday, even though it was a bit out of my price range. Unfortunately, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}