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Yeah, ACE hardware isn't a proper hardware store, dude. $2500 was about par for the course for a doorman building in the Financial District in 2005. Was the lo
by antongm 16y ago
Yeah, ACE hardware isn't a proper hardware store, dude.
$2500 was about par for the course for a doorman building in the Financial District in 2005. Was the lowest price among the ones I looked at. The whole point is that you have to savvy (i.e. have some inside connection) to the local real estate scene to not get fleeced. A tool like Craigslist democratizes the market, and makes inside information less valuable (which is why I suspect it's never caught on in New York....cause New Yorkers like feeling like they got the 'deal').
As for the foodie scene: I'm aware there is a thriving one in New York. The point is that it's totally orthogonal from the sort of ambitious creative class that would create a startup. The guys I knew from Wall Street most certainly did not know how to fry an egg...they knew how to order stuff on SeamlessWeb, and that's about it.
In the Bay Area, those worlds intersect, if not directly overlap. Paul Graham of Y Combinator used to cook for his startups at the weekly dinners. I can't even begin to imagine a Goldman partner cooking for his desk.
- starkfist 16y agoEveryone in NYC besides bankers have been getting their apartments from craigslist since 1998. And, you can get a 500sq foot 1bdrm in battery park city for $1800.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoOr Jersey City (the non-yuppie parts) for $1000.
- jgv 16y agoI have to disagree with your Craigslist in NYC comment. Not only did I find my apartment on Craigslist but I frequently buy and sell bike parts on Craigslist and pick up items from Craigslist's free section. I've been a New Yorker using Craigslist since high school. Being savvy ≠ "some inside connection." RE the foodie scene: Consider Brooklyn Grange a foodie startup. We also have great initiatives like Windowfarms (http://www.windowfarms.org/ http://www.windowfarms.org/) which is sponsored by Eyebeam (http://eyebeam.org/ http://eyebeam.org/). This illustrates food, tech, and art intersecting. (ACE has worked just fine for me. If I need wood, I go somewhere that provides lumber.)
- isamuel 16y agoYou complain that New York is too expensive, but you were living in a doorman building in the Financial District? Is this some kind of joke? It sounds like you had a bad experience at a shitty job, hung around with total assholes, and then blamed the city for all of it. Then you relocated to a new place, did a different job, hung out with new people, and conclude that the entirety of New York (none of which, judging by your post, you've ever seen) is doomed because every one of its 8 million residents is a back-slapping MBA. Give me a break.
- zavulon 16y agoLOL at "Craigslist never caught on in New York".
- antongm 16y agoCompared to SF? You have no idea, guy.
- char 16y agoCraigslist never caught on in New York? FALSE.