Lucy Cohen Blatter

If you can wait till October 1 to move, you might want to consider this $2,500 Greenpoint one-bedroom.  It's got original prewar details like tin ceilings and bay windows. The listing says it's about 850 square feet. Plus, it's close to Greenpoint's McGolrick park (yet not so close to the subway -- the G is almost half a mile away).

Sure, this is a pricey dorm room (about four times what mine cost!), but this is New York City, people. And we think this $2,015 furnished studio is calling out to Columbia grad students. 

On a recent episode of his WNYC radio show, Brian Lehrer asked New Yorkers who'd moved to the city in the last 15 years to call in and discuss how it's been going (this is following a report that 55 percent of New Yorkers are dissatisfied with the direction of the city).

There were some common themes: The rent, and cost of living, is high, of course. But once people get bitten by the New York City bug, so to speak, they find it hard to leave.

For those of us who've been in this city for a while, we know that the word "charm" in a listing means that the apartment is probably in need of a makeover. Behold, there it is, in the description of this $2,995 two-bedroom on West 85th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.