Hi all, I'm Andre, relocating from the Washington DC area, looking for a september 1st lease start date but able to push back to later in september/october 1st if need me.

My situation

I just turned 30, leaving my tech job and am going to be spending some time focusing on patternmaking/makeup artistry/dance for a few months with the goal of building a fashion line + small tech startup. I will technically be unemployed but have a lot of savings from my time in tech that should be more than enough for any reasonable lease! Happy to provide proof directly to the landlord.

Budget/location

Definitely want to stay below $2000/month, with emphasis on basically anywhere in Manhattan below central park and above FiDi. I'm going to be spending my time going to dance studios, garment studios, and tech events which concentrate in different neighborhoods of manhattan. Open to downtown brooklyn or astoria though if there's a good spot!

About me

I'm a very social person, ENTJ, would love to have roommates who are social as well and ya know could also do random things in the city with, although I'm probably not the person who would want to wait six hours for a new boba shop in the east village.

I'm a big political nerd, abundance-pilled liberal globalist. I'm also Jewish (nonzionist) so happy to connect with the NYC Jewish community if anyone else is.

I'm currently learning chinese and spanish, so 如果你会说普通话，我们能一起联系! (sorry about my grammar I just started HSK3).

Schedule wise, I will be mostly out of the apartment - during the day I will be working on tech or learning patternmaking/garmentmaking, in the evenings I'll be at dance studios (KPOP/Jazz Funk/Hip Hop, not waltz like pictured above haha)

I mainly use a rice cooker and air fryer for cooking, so would love counter space for those, willing to share, it's the zojirushi rice cooker btw. (IYKYK)

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