I have continued on my search for an apartment, and I’m still finding the same thing, that I am too early to be looking for a September start date. All the same I’m going to keep looking at apartments, more than anything so that I can get a sense for the market (prices, locations etc).
I have been looking at Craig’s List mostly, but I found some other listing services through them, and in some ways they are better. They actually have people that you can email and ask for help, and a search tool that is a little easier to use. However they don’t have nearly the same number of listings that Craig’s List has.
The first site I found was called Rent Manhattan and mlee@rentmanhattan.com was the person I emailed. The other site I found was The Broadway Group NY, and lucas@tbgny.com was the person I emailed there. They gave me the same advice, wait a while for September apartments.
