Nyc internship housing near WTC

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D16 has landed a great internship for this coming summer. She will be working at a major bank near the World Trade Center. She is having sticker shock with the housing costs. She has looked into NYU housing but feels it is too far. She had found companies that specialize in housing for interns, but she wasn’t sure how reputable they were. Her brother is a grad student in NYC but he has a studio that’s 45 minutes away from where she will be working.

Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations?

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How about Pace University? Can walk.
https://www.pace.edu/summer-housing

Or
Check if interns for major employers near there, museum, city government, have housing tips for their interns.

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She can try to sublet a room for the summer from Pace students. My daughter has done that, I believe she got access to some internal Pace forums through her HS friends who attended Pace.

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Thanks! Pace University looks perfect. They have special internship housing rates too.

@Hippobirdy I love your username. Hippobirdy was one of late DHs favorite cartoons.

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Cooper Union student housing. Twenty minutes on mass transit at rush hour. Very clean and safe. Approximately $5000 for ten weeks.

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All of the options would work. But do keep in mind that NYU would be an easy commute and Greenwich Village is a fantastic place to live.

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Look at Webster Apartments intern housing for women: https://websterapartments.org

Or Educational Housing Service near Wall Street:
https://www.studenthousing.org/buildings/55-john-street

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I’d much rather live in the Village than down by the WTC. More fun, vibrant neighborhood, worth the short train ride.

…or Brooklyn Heights. handful of stops to Chamber St/WTC, fantastic residential neighborhood with a nice commercial strip on Montague.

https://www.studenthousing.org/buildings/st-george-towers

As a summer intern, biking to work is also a good possibility, from any of those. The west side highway/Hudson river park bikeway goes all the way up and down the west side and partway up the east (so no cars to tangle with), the Brooklyn Bridge from the heights is bikeable. Commuting by foot for exercise not out of the question either - she wouldn’t be tied to the subway.

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I can think of a dozen places to live that are more fun for a 20-something than near wtc. As long as she is near the right subway line i would suggest living elsewhere such as brooklyn heights, the Village and more.

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^ and almost every subway line goes to or very close to WTC. There are even ferries from NJ :slight_smile: