Hi all,<p>Me and my team have recently been accepted to Dreamit Venture's New York.<p>It's all really great, but we are coming from abroad. Trying to find a nice apartment in NYC from Israel is proving to be nearly impossible.<p>Apart of craiglist and AirBNB, what other solutions are there for finding reliable sublets from abroad?
Mazel tov on your acceptance!<p>Unfortunately, good subletting opportunities can be quite difficult to find most buildings explicitly prohibit the behavior.<p>I'm not sure how old you are, but depending on your age, you may be eligible for summer housing through studenthousing.org. NYU and Pace also have great summer dorming options, but they only offer housing for the entire summer rather than for specific time frames (which will likely be a problem given the nature of DreamIt's Israel-NYC time split).<p>Usually short-term rentals are very expensive (AirBNB certainly is), but <a href="http://www.nyhabitat.com/new-york-apartment.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nyhabitat.com/new-york-apartment.html</a> seems to be the most reasonable provider around.<p>Of course, Craigslist is also always an option, but there are no guarantees and it helps to know a bit about each building/location first.<p>If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help out!
My company, Suitey, is a concierge service to help people find apartments in the city, but sublets are a particular difficult market because most leases don't allow people to sublet, so it's an underground market. Craigslist is unfortunately the best game in town unless you go for a super-expensive short-term rental.
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Here is a list of colleges / unis in the NYC area => <a href="http://www.ny.com/academia/colleges.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ny.com/academia/colleges.html</a> . Some of these colleges have student housing that they rent to others during the summer. Try emailing them all to see. I've stayed in NYU / Columbia / Barnard student housing in the past and had a good time. Good luck and congrats on being accepted into the Dreamit Venture summer program.
Check out <a href="http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/sub/" rel="nofollow">http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/sub/</a> . Hoboken and Jersey City are a 10-15 minute subway (PATH train) from midtown Manhattan and you'll pay a whole lot less in rent and things like groceries/beer. Also you actually can see the skyline of manhattan, which is pretty nice.