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Finding apartments
 The apartment in Brooklyn. With my mother visiting NYC and neighbors. |
In addition, it took only 15 minutes to the hospital by car.It was a one bedroom apartment and the owner was an nice old lady. So it was the ideal apartment for me to live first time in US. The rent was around $300, which was not really cheap, because
$1.00 was valued at \240 then. (I was paid with yen by Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare. )
Since I had time and money to spare in the second year, I planned to move to Manhattan. I looked around for apartments with a real estate agent in Manhattan on a holiday. I was attracted to one located in Greenwich Village, a part of lower Manhattan. I still remember the address, 23 East 10th Street. The apartment was on the 12th floor, in a historic, old area with low rise brownstone houses, and some tall apartment buildings. The view from the window was not that great, but the World Trade Center could be partly seen, and the window facing south made the apartment bright during the day. I felt very comfortable in the apartment on my days off. The only disadvantage was the $900 rent which was triple the Brooklyn era!
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E-mail:kidot@momo.so-net.ne.jp
E-mail:kidot@momo.so-net.ne.jp