This story of Caroline Turner’s housing hunt has a happy ending:
[She] liked a nearby fifth-floor walk-up — sunny, recently renovated, with a washer-dryer and a dishwasher, for $3,195 a month.
Pocket doors separated the living area from the sleeping area, and there was a little balcony and a roof deck entered by a kind of hatchway “where you pull the cord and the stairs come down,” Ms. Dalberth said. The place was being painted a nice shade of pale gray.
Here’s the Times picture of Caroline Turner and her dog Moose in their new home. The pale grey looks almost white to me. I love this photo; it’s artfully composed, almost like a still-life painting. There are lots of great little details, like the eyeglasses on the coffee table, the photo of Moose on top of the dresser, and the laptop opened just so:
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If Caroline Turner looks happy in her new home, that’s because she is:
So she chose the place she liked best, the fifth-floor walk-up with the gray paint, paying a broker fee of one month’s rent and arriving shortly before starting work.
The neighborhood is, just as she thought it would be, ideal for a dog. Moose romps in the Tompkins Square dog run with his dog friends. “It’s nice to have him run around without me having to run around,” Ms. Turner said.
With her long and unpredictable hours as a first-year associate, she found a dog day care service that would drop off Moose at day’s end. “I come home to my apartment and he is magically here,” she said.
Trading your Biglaw bucks for convenience: a familiar trade-off for many a young associate, and a wise one. If you’re one of the lucky law school graduates to land a six-figure job after graduation, focus on keeping and excelling at that job, not on getting home in time to walk the dog.
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Congratulations to Caroline Turner on graduating from Columbia, securing a good job, and finding a great Manhattan apartment. That last accomplishment might be the greatest feat of all.
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