<p>DS just got unpaid summer internship at magazine in SoHo. NYU looks like a possibility for housing but any ideas/experience on all options appreciated!</p>
<p>NYU Housing fills up very fast.</p>
<p>Do a search on this forum and there are few threads on this. You should expect to pay around 300-400/week for a room, that’s before food, entertainment, transportation. Are you sure you want to fund an unpaid internship in NYC? </p>
<p>My DS stayed in the NYU dorms last summer. He was right at Union Square. The apt/dorm was ok. From a parents point of view it was good to know there was security. Location was great. He wasn’t overly fond of it. He wanted more freedom and found it to be a pain to have visitors. I wish he would do it again this year. It just made things easy. (for me 
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<p>I hope you know there’s movement afoot that these unpaid summer internships will be outright illegal. It’s even worse if you’re paying tuition for credits for that unpaid internship. My son did one 3-4 years ago and its only benefit was that he could write something on his resume. But the actual work wasn’t even 5 days a week, he was never included in meetings, and never learned anything substantial out of his experience. Magazines are a dying business (hopefully they have an online presense) and have never paid well even in my day. </p>
<p>That said, he should ask the magazine if they provide a housing allowance. Either that or ask a friend/relative for the use of their couch for the summer. The CoL in NYC is obscene and most kids his age live in the burroughs unless their parents are footing the bill.</p>
<p>Unpaid internship in NYC?
My daughters paid job that includes room & board in the American Alps sounds better & better!</p>
<p>I don’t know what the policies are in NYC, but when D was in CityYear & living on a small stipend, one of her coworkers was living in a hostel where she staffed the desk in exchange for a bed.
But some hostels are exclusive to travelers.</p>
<p>The Vanderbilt Ymca, The West side YMCA both have rooms to rent with a hostel atmosphere. Hostelling International has a large student base. Leo House is run by a religious order, so it does have some stricter rules, but gets a good review for cleanliness and budget. Make sure the accommodation is near public transit, and review any sites you can as some listings for hostels are actually SRO’s or illegal conversions. There is another group with dorm like accommodations called Educational Housing, but the reviews are not great.<br>
NYU summer housing fills up quickly. </p>
<p>A friend within drivable distance to NYC loaded up the car and made several appointments on Craig’s list and sublet.com and drove with son with a cash deposit to look at apartments first hand and moved him in same day. There are a lot of scams online. </p>
<p>One of my friends stayed in Columbia dorms - there is a website (unfortunately, I don’t remember what it is) where you can take a look at what’s available and arrange it through the students.</p>
<p>92nd street YMHA is good, but a trek from soho. </p>
<p>What is your budget for housing? </p>
<p>My daughter did two internships in Magazine in NYC, one at Martha Stewart and the next year at Oprah. The Oprah internship led to a job at the magazine. She stayed in NYU dorms both years. They are cracking down on those internships because of the lawsuits.</p>
<p>The Oprah job led her to graduate school in a new field, which she loves. It’s great to be young, find out what you don’t love, and learn what you do! </p>
<p>I do have to wonder about some of these unpaid internships, with the carrot being that they offer college credit. In my kids case, it would not be useful college credit (he’ll have to take the required classes anyways) and then we’d still have to pay the school for it. We’re finding that most of these internships (comp sci) seem to go one of two ways. For the paid internships they want a large number of skills, unpaid they don’t need skills but the work appears very general and not helpful to learning new skills.</p>
<p>I would consider paying for housing in NYC for an unpaid internship if it was for a company my son really wanted a job with, or if it was something getting him amazing experience. I’d consider it for a hacker school too (comp sci intensive).</p>
<p>I also had heard that the Y’s were a very good deal.</p>
<p>New School has great dorms for interns. They are air conditioned.</p>
<p>Unpaid internships in NYC? What are the benefits for your child? Is there a likelihood of an offer for a job upon graduation?</p>
<p>It’s your, and your kids, decision. But you need to seriously think the decision. NYC is expensive and it us difficult to find housing, temporary or otherwise.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>My D stayed at The New Yorker in Midtown, while registered at NYU for a semester internship .</p>
<p>Actually though, I don’t know if it’s reasonable for anyone to criticize an unpaid internship anywhere. If the family has plenty of money and doesn’t need to stretch for this, it may be well worth it for the kid to get some job experience. If it breaks the bank, definitely not worth it. But we don’t all have the same income.</p>
<p>I was reading online about something that looked like an awesome internship program. They had a network of internships all over in many different fields, for supposedly great companies, pretty much guaranteed. But I think you have to pay them thousands of dollars to place your child, for an unpaid internship, credit only.</p>
<p>So you get to pay for housing, tuition credit, placement fee…and they get experience of some sort. Your kid’s internship could cost you 10-20K. What a deal.</p>
<p>Yep, My niece had a NYC 4 week internship in 2012. She lived in a NYU dorm. Not sure if she was paid or not. My brother told me that 4 week internship cost him almost 8K!!!</p>
<p>I run my firm’s summer internship (as a hobby) and I also did it at my previous employer. Free means I don’t really have to care about what my interns do. Pay means I would need to make sure they are doing something meaningful day-to-day. Pay also means I have a budget to hire limited number of interns, which also translates into spending the time to recruit best interns. I am not saying every non-pay internship is a waste of time, but it often means less accountability.</p>