NYC Apartment Tours: Upper West Side Edition!

I live in San Francisco, and even my jaded eyes were rolling. I long ago lost sticker price shock, but the apartments shown were without any character. Here in San Francisco i rent a studio in Nob Hill with high ceilings, wood floors, separate entry, massive walk-in closet, crown moldings and massive windows looking at the GG bridge, all for the low low price of $2,500/m.

When she says “laundry” I think she means access to pay laundry where you still have to pay quite a bit per load. Would be nice to have your own set in the apartment. Old school ac units, shoebox kitchens and randomly getting punched in the face living in NYC. You can keep it.

Like London you get expensive rubbish.

Great apartment video. I think you do this better than any I have seen. Like the star system. You have a new subscriber.

Crazy insane prices!!!!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Great job. Good narration. Good description. I did live in forest hills for 9 years and owned my own co op. M and r on corner. Sold it in 2021. So happy 😊 to leave nyc. Moved to the sunshine ☀ state. Bought a 2br 2ba condo fully furnished. Includes cable with my hoa. I don't drive. Downtown very close. Live in Dunedin. Love it. Condo less than 300 000. And I look out on to ponds and 🎄 trees instead of bricks and buildings and streets. Good 🤞 luck up there. 😊😊

😂 my mortgage is less than half the rent of that studio, for a 1500sq foot house in central Texas

Small space, obscene rent, and in window a/c....bahahaha! I live in near Phoenix Arizona and saw 1 bedroom apartments were going for $1900 a month and 4 bedroom houses for rent at $2700. I almost fell over at those prices.

I no longer live in New York but I enjoy watching these wonderful videos of apartments for rent. What I cannot wrap around my head are the rent prices. How did a two bedroom apartment get to be over $5,000? I know prices have risen regarding everything now, but these rents are downright prohibitive! I guess two or three people have to live together in order to pay these rents!

That first apartment ain’t no way in hell.

I’d rate the studio with that huge kitchen space the highest. You could put a legit four seat dining room table in that space, leaving a lot of space in the living space to segment a bedroom and living room. They did a great job with that floorplan. And of course the washer/dryer, though i’m not a fan of front load washers.

I have been to NY and we enjoyed the sight seeing but way to many people 😫 it’s like a big box of cement ! But we could never live there and the weather SUCKS 😊we live in California 🌴 and the weather is great . The rent in NY is absolutely insane….

LOVE the videos as usual since I love NYC. Could the star system run along the left of the screen as opposed to the bottom? This way you could see the whole video with eh star system at the same time! Either way I love love your videos and all he work you do in showing the apartments around the city! Keep it up! You have another subscriber!

I don’t know how people live like that in such small spaces packed together like sardines. Being close to a NY subway from hell is a selling point?

The apartment is just over price to high for my budget, it’s best to buy your own home and get much more than just a small over price apartment.

Makes me lol when a single person thinks they need a dishwasher

When you insist on an elevator, you miss out on a lot of great apartments. There are some charming, high ceiling tenement and brownstone apartments, built before the days of air conditioning, that stay nice and cool in the summer and have radiators for the winter. I lived in a walk-up for 30 years and frankly, prefer it. You get extra time and can plan you how long it takes you to come and go because there's no standing around waiting for an elevator. And it's a really great way to get bits of exercise built into your life. Stairs help keep you healthy.

It baffles me how much they were asking for that first studio. Plenty of studios I toured a few weeks ago in that same area were double the size, had more amenities, each had dishwashers, and most faced the street or central park for under $2,700. I can't imagine why they would be asking so much for so little when comparable units had way more for less.

67th and Amster-DAMN that's nice!!! and the kitchen is more accessible + best lighting. If only it had a deck to go sit out on, that would've been top notch 🤩

I stumbled upon your video randomly, and I was surprised that your first stop was the very building in which I formerly lived. Your 2.5 star rating is fair. My studio wasn't the best place I've ever lived. However, I did face the street (86th St), so there was some kind of view. At night, I could see a sliver of Central Park and the high-rises that border Billionaires' Row. My studio was all of 300 sq ft. The building had begun its life in the 1920s as a hotel. The apartments were converted hotel rooms. My kitchen occupied the space that formerly held the murphy bed. There was only one 3 ft closet, which would be adequate for hotel guests but insufficient for living there full-time. My rent, back in 2015, was $2540/month. There were some long-term tenants in the building from the previous management whose apartments were grandfathered rent control, and they paid about half of what I paid in rent. It's worth mentioning that the same property management also owns the Parc77, which was your second stop.