What does the inside of New York City apartments look like?

Moving to New York City?

• I'm 13 and I live with my mom out on Long Island, NY and ever since i started modeling im in New York City all the time. Pretty much every weekend and sometimes on weekdays ill miss school to do shoots. So we were thinking about moving there permanently and i dont mind because i love New York City. But we need a good website to look at apartments. Or we need some reasonable apartment buildings. if we're renting an apartment our budget is between $1000-$2,500 a month. If we're buying something we're looking between $100,000-$500,000. and we want our place to be uptown, like middle manhatten Anyone have any good building ideas? or websites we can look on?

• Answer:

  The basic real estate sites like Century 21 are a good reference, but there's so many private companies out there specifically designed for this, that finding a good apartment won't be trouble. You won't find anything near $1,000 a month, so X that out. You can probably find a decent one bed room in the low $2,000's on the Upper West Side. You might be able to get a two bedroom in the mid-$2,000's. It'll be hard finding that on the Lower East Side or Mid-Town though. I'd suggest the Upper West Side though. A big question you have to ask your mom is does she plan on continuing to own a car? If she does, it'll be hell finding a spot. Plus, it makes no sense owning a car there since the public transportation is incredible. You'd save a lot of money on not spending on car insurance, car loans, gas or maintaining it though, so you might be able to have an extra few hundred a month in your budget. Buying an apartment certainly is a good choice too, because it'll definitely profit. It'd be a good investment. Long Island's okay. It's like any other suburban place. The other 4 boroughs actually can kind of relate too. There's parts of Brooklyn, like Park Slope and Williamsburg that have that Manhattan type vibe too though. I don't blame you to want to get out of Long Island either. They'll be people who tell you Manhattan's so expensive, yet Nassau County is probably the next most expensive place in the area. If you live there and your mom owns a home, just ask her what her property taxes are. There's a lot of people like yourself, models, stock brokers, artists, musicians and actors all types of jobs that are great there. The convenience is really the best thing about it, but you're living in the scene. You may eventually get tired of it, but what's the big deal if you do? You won't have to give up your job, since you live close enough to commute. You could always visit your family and friends in Long Island too.