Lawyerly Lairs: The 99 Percent Edition
Most installments of Lawyerly Lairs, our inside look at the nests of legal eagles, involve residences of utter fabulosity. We realize that most Americans, or even most lawyers, don't live in such luxury. And we're interested in learning about how the other half lives. We'll get the 99 percent ball rolling with a look at two current law students who braved the brutal renters' market here in New York. What school do they attend, and how did their hunt turn out?
Here’s how their housing search started off, as recounted by Joyce Cohen in The Hunt:
[Real estate agent Julia Perez] showed [Michael] an apartment on 14th Street, between Avenues A and B, not far from the L train. Mr. Igyarto didn’t mind being on a commercial cross street, but the apartment, at $2,700 a month, was small.
Here’s the exterior of the 14th Street building (which looks a bit dated, with the old-school fire escapes):
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They passed on that and went farther south:
At a new building on Third Street between Avenues A and B, $3,000 a month would secure only a one-bedroom that could be converted to two. But doing so would eliminate much of the living room.
Avenue A is pretty far east; remember that NYU is all the way over in the West Village. But at least the building on East 3rd Street looks nice on the outside:
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Apartments “always sound better than they end up being,” Mr. Igyarto said.
That’s rule #1 of New York real estate — especially in the current market, which is surprisingly tight (for renters), despite the less-than-awesome economy. If you find a place you like, snap it up; if you hesitate or negotiate, you’ll lose it (which just happened to a friend of mine). As the old saying goes, “Fortune favors the bold.”
So strike two for Igyarto and Kulkarni (which, by the way, would make for a nice law firm name; the “ar” sounds in their surnames create a pleasing internal rhyme). Did they end up scoring a suitable place?
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