Word: one-bedroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After a year in Los Angeles, he paid another coyote $400 to smuggle in his wife and three of their six children. Eight months later he sent for the other three, at a cost of $250. Now the family?including two children born in the U.S.?occupies a sweltering one-bedroom barrio apartment, in which every available piece of furniture doubles as a bed. Even such cramped quarters are an improvement over what would be available in Mexico. Pointing at his twelve-year-old daughter, Jos?ays: "If we were in Mexico, she would be working in the fields...
Vacancy rates have seldom been lower in desirable parts of cities. Rents are double what they were at the start of the decade: $400-$750 for a one-bedroom unit on Manhattan's tony East Side, almost $300 in Miami and Los Angeles. Says Daniel Rose, chairman of the housing committee of the Real Estate Board of New York, where vacancies in Manhattan are running only 1½% to 2%: "We've never had such pressure." Declares Kathleen Connell, director of housing for the city of Los Angeles: "It has got to the point where if there...
Myerson is the most glamorous element in Koch's otherwise low-key social life. He lives in a one-bedroom Greenwich Village apartment, where he occasionally cooks steaks for friends and serves low-priced French table wine from a living-room rack. In the kitchen he stocks old-fashioned seltzer siphons. He now rarely has time to listen to the Baez, Denver and Garfunkel tapes stacked by the stereo. He no longer owns an auto and frequently uses the subway. (Koch withdrew from law practice when he entered Congress, and lives on his salary...
...invest then would have upwards of $100,000 today. But then, who would have trusted Marc Howard to handle a $2 bet? A college dropout who had held 25 different jobs between 1962 and 1969, he started Howard Associates on begged and borrowed money in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush. Not until 1973 did he feel that he could afford a downtown office and staff. He is behind his desk by 8 o'clock most mornings, burrowing through 4-ft. piles of research reports. "I've been out for lunch once in the last five years...
Whether it will is another question. For one thing, Soldiers Field Park is anything but cheap. Although the Real Estate Office says its rents are comparable to most others in Boston and Cambridge, the complex is higher priced than at least most Harvard rental property. A one-bedroom apartment at Soldiers Field Park is listed at $260 to $325 a month; the same thing costs $185 to $250 in Peabody Terrace (although that will go up soon) and $154 in Holden Green. One reason for the higher prices is the cost of the building, but another is that...