WHAT IT IS:
There is a room availble in a no-drama, art-filled clean home and environment; you'd be living alongside life-experienced and art-curious adults. The room is in a three-bedroom apartment, and is a two-floor walk-up in a former tenement building a half block East of Tompkins Square Park, just off the beaten path of the heart of the East Village. We are looking for a mature roommate with a healthy level of cleanliness to move in on February 1st 2026.

All utilities (electricity, gas, internet) are included in the monthly rent. One month of rent is required for security deposit and will conditionally be returned in full upon departure.

Sublease is month-to-month and long-term is preferred but not necessary. If a person moves in mid-month the rent will be pro-rated to the daily equation.

Because of allergies we can have no furry pets.

Quiet hours are those of NYC, with much respect to each other: 10pm to 7am, and can change as per personal needs and via discussion.

Guests are welcome, but fellow tenants should be alerted.

THE ROOM AVAILABLE:
The room available is a private, partly-furnished bedroom, and you can furnish it on your own if prefered. It is bright and warm with a window that looks out on the shaftway, getting some direct sunlight during the day. There is a closet and upper storage space, built-in shelving units, a twin bed and boxspring with frame, a small bureau, table, and lamp. Sub-tenant can arrange, decorate, and paint to your taste. It's not a big room but like the apartment, it is laid out and shaped well. The tenancy is perfect for a person on a fellowship or looking for community while starting life in NYC, someone who doesn't require a big bedroom, and/or someone who wants specifically to live in the East Village. The room is right off the kitchen, so tenant may hear activity when people are using the kitchen.

THE APARTMENT:
The apartment is a nice respite, a unique oasis, from the outside world of NYC while still residing in gotham. There are three bedrooms in total though with layout and schedules we may rarely see each other. The layout provides space, privacy, and places to read or work outside the bedrooms, but public space can also give rise for social possibilities. The walls are old-school East Village plaster and lathe so very soundproof. Hardwood floors with rugs throughout keep the place quiet, and warm. The building is fairly thermal so the apartment is cool in summer, with the windows all around allowing amazing cross-ventilation (and when it's really hot, we use AC). The rooms are warm in winter as each room has heat pipes or radiators. The colorful kitchen and living room are shared spaces in which to have conversations, alone time, and announced guests. The kitchen provides cabinet space and a shelf in the fridge for each roommate and a 3-4 person table and a work table/mail table. Common spaces and items there (kitchenware, tools, books etc.) are for shared use. The oven/stove uses gas; we have no microwave, and no communal television. We do not cook fish or meat but don't care if pre-cooked food is brought in. We recycle and compost.

The bathroom has a tub and a shower with multiple settings, and two medicine cabinets and storage for toiletries and towels.

THE BUILDING / THE BLOCK:
The building itself faces a community garden, and is on a tree-lined street, off the beaten East Village path. We live a half block East of Tompkins Square Park, and two-and-a-half blocks from East River Park on the river, so there are great inner-city outdoor opportunities. The block has three churches and three restaurants. The neighborhood provides us with what we need: great laundromats, many grocery and health food stores, post offices, hardware stores, wine stores and bars, music and comedy clubs and stage and movie theaters are all plentiful and nearby. It's a fantastic and vibrant neighborhood, continuing to be artistic, activist, social, and historical.

THE COMMUNITY
As a community of roommates we are convivial and respectful; our conversation usually turns to art, music, politics or the neighborhood; or, we are tucked away in our rooms reading or working or watching something streaming. We all keep the place clean and stocked with essentials. We are youthful professional artists and teachers in our 50's, and having just earned my LMSW I work daily as a social worker with Bronx folks in shelters. Fellow building tenants are now old friends and we look out for each other. I am also a daily commuting bicyclist.

We can meet in-person preferably, or give a tour by digital platform as well if it is impossible for you to be in NYC.

About This Lister

THE TENANTS:
I (he/him), the lease-holder, am a long-time professional music photographer and a photography educator in NYC public schools, and having recently achieved a Masters in Social Work have taken daily work with an organization that cares for shelter-homeless folk in Bronx. I am partnered with a tenured professor at Hunter College and she lives in Brooklyn. The other roommate in this apartment (she/her) is a professor at School of Visual Arts, and a musician and storyteller. We are both youthful culture vultures in our late 50's. I love to travel, have been to and through all the 50 US states, and now prefer to go to other countries. I consider the East Village home and I have shared this apartment with fellow artists, activists, and creative people for 11 years.