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You are unlikely to find something under 2G, and if you do, something would wrong with the place, or the rent, or the landlord, etc. A modest clean, with necessary equipment 500+sq ft studio with those requirements would run closer to $2500/month in upper east area.
This is true for doorman studios, their average price is about $2500.
However if you don't need a doorman, you can save around $500 a month.
However if you don't need a doorman, you can save around $500 a month.
Not really, doorman wouldn't add that much. Assuming an average 10-story 200000 sq ft living space building having $2000/day expenses on three doormen and manager; it would add an average $0.3/month per sq ft in expenses. That translates in additional $150/month for 500 sq ft studio. It will be even less for bigger towers.
The reason rent in buildings with doormen are more expensive is because they are better in every other regard. Management chooses better buildings to add more amenities.
What would be an average low starting price for a studio apartment:
In central east Manhattan, East 20th-90th
Nice middle-class building, elevator, without fire escapes, but not a grand luxe place
Either no doorman, or maybe a low-key doorman, but not a grand staff with concierge and elevator man
Would a starting price be $1,500 a month? $1,800? $2,000? More?
Here is a link to the April ,2011 Manhattan Monthly Rental Market Report.It is the most accurate,most broadly based and most widely used survey of rental prices.
According to the report,the prices of studio apartments range from 1,500/mo in some non doorman buildings in Harlem to 3,321/mo in a doorman building in Tribeca.On the UES,they range from 1,900/mo in a non doorman building to 2,339 in a doorman .Prices in Murray Hill and midtown East were very similar.The mean price for a studio in all of Manhattan was 2082 in a non doorman building and 2,522 in a doorman building.
Average rents in Manhattan are up 6% over a year ago.
You can luck out if you really scour craigslist and are willing to act fast.
Have everything you will need, a letter that confirms your job and salary, printout of bank balance landlord references, and last year's taxes. Keep it with you in a folder when you go see any apartment so you are ready to go and all you'd need is to get the cashiers checks.
I have a 450 sq ft studio on the Upper East with a doorman and elevator for $1650. Got it a year ago. It's clean an nice if a bit small. But I had to JUMP on it and if I hadn't had everything in order it would have been gone.
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