Apartment...?

Look on craigslist.org!

Astoria (Queens) is one of the cheapest and best places to live.

As for Equity--you can only get it by either being offered an Equity contract or by earning points while working at Equity theatres--more info at http://www.actorsequity.org

Good luck!

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I would recommend looking for a place in Sunnyside Queens. I just bought a co-op there and i see that rents are relly great. i saw a 2 bedroom apt listed for $1200. Believe it or not, that is really good. And very close to mid-town.

I agree with the above, don't come to NYC looking for your card.

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If you have a place to stay once you get here so you can find a place without a broker, i would do that. The one I saw was just on a flyer at a store. Or you can look on Craigslist.org too. A broker is just so much money. At least one month's rent just to them and then a security deposit of another month's rent. Boom, $3600! I hate give a month's rent to a broker just for finding you something when it is always possible to find it on your own.

As for the Equity card, plenty of people get theirs withThetare for young Audience tours. You audition here in the city and then go on a tour (assuming you get cast, i guess) for 3-6 moths in a van. I have never done it, but no plenty of people who have. It would be ideal to get a job like that before you get a place so that you can just live on the road for a few months and not pay rent for something you are not even living in.

Good luck.

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brokers in the city are vicious. if you are looking in suunnyside i recommend "welcome home" real estate. ask for carmela. i used her to get my apartment and she only charged one month rent as a fee. i've recommended several people to her and she's always come through for them.

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lol, erik, if you can cook, me and mrs. mambo might be open to the idea.

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Well Papa...I cook a mean salmon. Maybe you and the misses would like to adopt a 31 year old gay liberal?

Golly, gee, Papa, do I get to work in the bathroom??

Boffo!

Will that get me my SAG card?

Will you still hump my leg?

Ron Bohmer's dog humped my leg, once. I had a friend in the chorus of the Scarlet Pimpernel tour and was waiting for him at the stage door. Bohmer comes out with this huge black lab which proceeds immediately to my right leg. It was intense.

Then my friend and I went to Cheesecake Factory. The End.

try jersey. towns like hoboken,jersey city, and others are just 10/15 min bus and train ride away.