It's Hard to Beat the Tent Rent
Here’s something we may start to see more of: Brokelyn reports that three enterprising recent college grads have avoided moving in with mom and dad by pitching a tent in the backyard of a friend’s Bushwick rental. The price? $100 a month per tent. The experience is not for the faint of heart, given that…
Here’s something we may start to see more of: Brokelyn reports that three enterprising recent college grads have avoided moving in with mom and dad by pitching a tent in the backyard of a friend’s Bushwick rental. The price? $100 a month per tent. The experience is not for the faint of heart, given that there are already six people crammed into the two-bedroom duplex. In all, that makes for nine people sharing one shower. All of a sudden, crashing on the ‘rents couch doesn’t sound too bad.
Bushwick Summer Rental: A $100 Tent [Brokelyn]
Photo by Stefan Tonio
Think of how Mr. Frank’s parents must feel:
-Paid $50,000/year to put their guy through NYU;
-He now works as a guide on a tour bus and lives in a tent in a Bushwick Backyard, while he plans his next step.
Since the term “hip” was pretty much defined in the sixties when I was growing up, I don’t think this is very “hip” at all. The phrase “low life” however does comes to mind.
This is how I would live if I wasn’t living in my mother’s house?
I complain about this site, but I keep coming back.
I like boys pitching tents in my backyard. Where are my skittles?
Wait, sleeping in a tent in Bushwick defines “hipster”?
Yeah oddly enough the tightneses of your jeans or facial hair doesn’t really matter – but if you are LIVING IN A TENT in bushwick, you are automatically a hipster.
This shit really pisses me off. This is an extreme, but in general, young people in NYC live in freakin horrible conditions. Whether it is the females in the upper east side doorman building with 3 sharing a 1 bedroom, the east village poseurs living in 6×7 rooms with no closets or whatever the hell these bushwick kids are – it’s absolutely amazing what people will subject themselves to.
I lived in some shitty apts during college so I could have my freedom, but once i graduated that was no longer acceptable to me.
“If I had a girlfriend,†said Levy, “I’d probably stay at her place instead.â€
The scary thing is, there’s probably a low-dater chick out there who is actually looking for this grade of mooch to share her life with.
Wait, sleeping in a tent in Bushwick defines “hipster”?
Anyway, it isn’t legal, and it doesn’t make a difference that they’re renting to hipsters and not guys living social security check to social security check.
It’s not the only thing that’s like Riker’s… nudge nudge.
“In all, that makes for nine people sharing one shower.”
Foot fungus like at Rikers (shiver).