Considering moving to NYC - Advice please!!

[MochaA]

Originally Posted by bee77

Don't mean to butt in - I can't give you much advice about flats in NY - but I have a friend who works for the UN and he doesn't pay any taxes...... Infact, I would take him shopping with me if I was buying something expensive and I wouldn't pay sales tax if he showed his card and we paid cash
I know that he lives in Midtown and his salary isn't anything special but he still manages to live quite well. Maybe you should souble check on the tax benefits you get?

Thanks, I'm entitled to tax-free benefits too - bonus!!

[MochaA]

Originally Posted by KB4

For easy access to the UN, stay on the East side of Manhattan. You can walk to work from Murray Hill/Kips Bay/Midtown East or take a bus from East Village or Upper East Side (M15 is not too bad). Or you can look at Queens and Brooklyn to save some money. You can look at the NY Times real estate section online to see photos of apartments that are offered for rent, just take into account that they often look worse in real life. In any case, you can't rent an apartment unless you are actually here.

One more thing to consider: I presume that you have no US social security number and thus no credit history in the US which can be a big problem when renting in NYC (for example, you might be required to pay 3 months' rent for security deposit instead of 1 month).

I would recommend you to sublet a furnished place or a "holiday apartment" for the first couple of months. This would give you some more time to see the city, talk to colleagues and think about where you would like to live.

Thx - Now that I know which areas to look in, I'm getting a better idea already

[Elvira Black]

Would the UN offer some assistance to you in terms of locating apts?

I think you'll do fairly well here.