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...from it all. Last May, Cindy called her high school alma mater in Hawaii to see whether there were any teaching openings for Michael, who at one point had taught an undergraduate film course at Boston College. He got a job teaching English at summer school, so the couple sublet their New York apartment at a profit and moved into a condo in Honolulu that had belonged to Cindy's grandmother, who had recently died...
...amazing feeling of freedom, to make my life on my own terms, for better or worse. Of course, I had to figure out how to support myself. I went straight to Greenwich Village to stay with a friend. In a very short time, I arranged a sublet for about eight of us at 60 West 10th Street, the first of many Village apartments over the next decade. I got odd jobs. My favorite was delivering telegrams for Western Union, including death notices to very poor people, who always, it seemed, lived six flights...
While we are being partially compensated for the changes to our sublet arrangement (our rent has been cut in half—making the cost ridiculously low relative to normal rates in Washington), my roommate and I certainly would have never agreed in advance to this cramped and undesirable living arrangement, no matter the price. My roommate does note, however, that the savings do significantly augment our beer budget...
Unfortunately, there’s not much to be done about the plight of those who sublet for the summer, other than accepting inevitable financial loss at the outset. Given the relatively small sums of money involved and short duration of summer sublets, there’s little threat of any legal consequences to dishonest renters. And given the limited supply and incredible demand for summer intern housing, even in the midst of a recession, it’s certainly a seller’s market...
...went 10 years without contact.) She discovered singing while attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Erykah Badu and trumpeter Roy Hargrove are also alums) and pursued jazz piano at the University of North Texas. After her sophomore year, she took a summer sublet in New York City, where she waited on tables in the mornings and spent her evenings singing jazz standards in Greenwich Village dives. "It was pretty much everything I wanted," Jones says. She never went back to Texas...