The Upper West, Yes.

Searching for an apartment in New York City has been a nightmare, but the worst may be over now.

Brian came up from PA yesterday to help me look at a place, and we put our deposit down on an apartment located around the Petit Senegal neighborhood of 8th avenue. We found it on Craigslist after weeks of complicated searching, which entailed my driving back and forth to the city on the weekends and meeting with various people to see a very limited array of options based on what our budget allows (apparently that includes anything from a basement apartment with no windows to a fifth-floor walkup with no stove).

There was an air of inevitability about it, that something else would come along. And sure enough...this video might be our new backyard. I should hear from the building owner this week.