My NYC Apartment tour: $1300 apartment in Queens | Rent in New York 

Is it a good price for such apartment? What do you think? 😃 I also want to thank BetterHelp for sponsoring this video! Get 10% off your first month of therapy with "BetterHelp": betterhelp.com/daristep

$3000 per month for a two bedroom apartment of that quality is good in NYC. In North Carolina, I had a two bedroom apartment for $1465 until recently. There are probably small towns and rural areas where you could rent for$1100 or less.

Yes , please do a NYC neighborhood comparison video! I really enjoyed your apartment tour, thanks for sharing. Hopefully, it will be less painful finding another nice apartment because you now have a rental history and your old landlord as a reference.

Wow, I like your apartment because Your apartment has a beautiful view of the city. The city is very relaxing and This is the most beautiful city I've ever seen. I hope you're having an amazing time in that city and Take good care of yourself. My compliments and Congratulations on your success, Keep it up, I love New York. 🇺🇸🗽🙂👍

That was a fun quick tour, nice and tidy too! Always enjoy the secret videos too. Can't see how you can afford a place on your own, so you might have to share.

You were so lucky to have gotten such a great apartment! Looking forward to your next instalment 🫶🏻

Wow, Dasha. 😳 I live in the north of Virginia (near Winchester). We live in a three-bedroom house that costs us as much as your share of that apartment. And it's a mortgage, not a rental. In fact, funny story about dormitories... I bought this house because, when sharing the house with room mates, it was half as expensive as sharing a single hotel-style dorm room, with another guy, on campus 10 minutes away. 😅 So at least that much isn't different from New York. And, 18 years later, I can still live here, though commuting 2+ hours to work every day by car isn't always the most fun.

SJU '24 alumn here!! Congrats on your school journey 🥳🥳💗💗

I love the apartment it look so spacious! I’m a young woman from the UK who dream is to move to the USA.😃 By the way your video is very educational! Thank you so much for sharing.❤️

I love how confident and comfortable you have become with the city in such a short amount of time. As someone who was born and raised there, I look forward to your video on the best neighborhoods!

Welcome to my neighborhood. St. John's is a good university and easily accessible by bus and subway to Manhattan. There is even an Express bus that runs along Union Tpke. that takes you into the city on coach buses.

I love that apartment! You have been very creative living in the US this year and did a wonderful job. I hope you enjoyed your stay. Also, have a good time with your family in Russia this summer and give your baby-boy dog a kiss from me. Safe travels this 🙏 summer!😊❤

You got this apartment much faster than the previous one!

Great price. I hope everything is working out so far.

Thank you for the update. 👍

The apartment is an older one. Many people want a new building and are willing to pay in my opinion the exorbent rent to live in such a building. I have found that living in an apartment is almost always cheaper than living in a dorm in the USA. In many dorms breakfast, lunch, & dinner are included. At times activities are included with renting a dorm such as free pizza ( but you had to buy the beer or wine), meeting with a politician for an open forum discussion, etc.

I'm glad you are making a video about finding your apartment. I'm dealing with the same, looking at UES, LIC, and downtown Brooklyn.

I live in queens and back in the day if you wanted an apartment in NYC you had to wait till someone died! Not no more people are leaving because of defunding the police, crime is bad, really bad

I live just under a morgue, which I don't pay anything for, cold but comfy, can't complain about the neighbors as generally they're very quiet😅

Great video as usual Dari! I wish you the best with your summer plans and then with your room or apartment search later on in the summer. Looking forward to your next video!

Wow! That is a great price, for an apartment in NYC! Looks very nice. Have a great time with your family❤

Very interesting video. I hope you make the video of your best places in NYC. It is so hard to make ends meet and doubly so as a foreign student in USA. I wish you best of luck on your summer program and congratulations for winning the competition and for finishing your first year!

Very informative video on apartments in NYC nowadays. Prices have gone up a lot since I lived there, lol. (I actually lived in Jersey City).

When I lived in NY in 2013/14 I rented a small room for $600. It was a lot, but didn't feel that crazy as it would feel nowadays with the current exchange rate. The rule was if I leave - I had to find another person to rent it for me. Luckaly it wasn't hard to find the one who would replace you in this subleasing. Basically it was some Russian guy who rented the whole 3 rooms apartment and he rented other 2 rooms. To find the room from the host was impossible. When they asked me when I came and how much money I have they hung up the call immediatly 😂

WOW Dari - I knew it was going to be a bit expensive - NOT nearly impossible 🤯 The amount of paperwork needed just to rent an apartment is mind-boggling, especially for foreign students. I am glad you found one, and 1,300$ is a reasonable price, 3,000$ is a bit pricey, but since the going rate for most decent apartments is about 2,000, 3,000 for a New York apartment is a great deal given the location. Best of luck finding a new apartment when you return 🤞😖🤞 A moving out vlog, you say? 🤔 Are you going to PIVOT, PIVOT? 😂😂 👋😄

I hope that you have found a place to store all of the things that you have bought in America, such as the Christmas lights and the bedding. It would be discouraging to need to rebuy all of that stuff next term unless you can sell them at a good price before you go.

you cant beat that with a stick in New York....thats a good deal and a Big apt...

You got an expensive place, but then it had no chickens, no noise, no thieves and no water dripping from the place above 😉 For good places you will always have to pay good money.

Hi Dari,nice apartment, safe travels to visit your family,take care

Dari, have you been spending some time locking down a new place to stay with friends who will be living in the same general location as your school next semester... BEFORE you leave the U.S. again? This way you won't be scrambling to find a roof over your head when you come back to NYC in August. That would potentially mean far less stress for you. You might have better luck now since students may be leaving the area after graduating.

I pay $1300 for a 2 bedroom house with 2 car garage and laundry. Also have dishwasher. Backyard and front yard. No roommates so it's the total price. I brought the house 12 years ago when prices and rates were lower. Now it would cost a lot more for the same place at today's prices.

Good luck doll.

Dari you're apartment is very nice! Yes...I live in New York State and renting apartments is ridiculously high! Good Luck thus summer and looking forward to following you're journey! Take care and stay safe!🙏❤😊

That seemed really hard when you first moved to NYC without knowing much about the rental market. It's nice that you have the knowledge now.

Dari is awesome. ❤❤❤

The apartment looks really nice. I hope it will not to too difficult later in the year to find an new place for a reasonable price. Have a nice summer travelling in Europe and visiting your parents.

Hello Dari! Your flat is really nice and very spacious. Of course the price is very high. New York is huge and expensive and looking for a flat outside the city, where probably prices are more affordable, would be too inconvenient and far from the university. I hope you can find one just as cute for less!! You'll see, you'll find it! Have a wonderful holiday with your family and also a great stay in Portugal! Thank you for sharing and take care 💕🌷🪻⚘️

Dari your apartment is fantastic you 're around the corners to become a big business girl in nyc you have potential very nice

The apartment looks really cozy ❤ take care and enjoy summer in Europe

I am a new subscriber you have a lovely apartment looking forward to see your next adventure in apartment hunting & your next adventure in life ! Have a lovely day !

Thanks!

That's a beautiful appartement but the cost is so expensive 😱

Nice!

Really nice apartment ❤️

Those dorm rates are ridiculous. I recall how stressed you were when looking for an apartment. So I guess you're going to have to go through this again in September.

$3000 for a spacious 2 bedroom in Queens (close to manhattan) is a very good deal. A few years ago, it was actually cheaper to buy an apartment than rent because of very low interest rates. I bought a similar apartment in NYC back then and I pay $1800 a month mortgage (of course not including fees/down payment).

Nice to see your lovely face Dari!

Looking stylish 😎

hi Dari check out Sunnyside when you come back 🤐

I wish I had a friend like you.

I would definitely try to do internships for your school for real world experience. I did one for my television production course. Trust me you really don’t know anything until you actually do it. Every big company does a few every year. I know the stock exchange does them, financial institutions do it. Think about it as real world experience really can’t help. During the summer travel around to different places and talk to businesses there to gain information about how to run businesses and how they started. There’s a new lounge in Orlando that opened six months ago that was started by someone with no business experience but learned on the fly. That place now has a six month wait list and lines out the door. It’s easy to start a business but hard to keep it going. He had to learn what it takes to keep it open. He’s changing up the place already to keep up with trends. He’s doing what he can like everyone else. I changed up my restaurant menu a bit every few months to keep up with food trends just adding a dish or changing a dish or two. It’s hard but it’s working somehow.

I think you’re done it quite well l liked your flat quite roomy inside and l look forward to your next vlog moving out, are you sad about it? Will you still in New York or somewhere else?

Sending Love. 🌹

I remember searching for a brownstone apt in ideal Manhattan (UPW at W. 77th). It took 3-months. I finally bypassed the crazy brokers and met a landlord. He looked me in the eye and said “you’re in”. Didn’t ask for credit, income, criminal etc. So appearance that you refer to is important. I rented for 5-years and never missed a rent payment or bothered him. When I told him I was moving out, he almost begged me to stay, e.g., “I’ll given you any apt in any of my buildings”, etc. And almost everyday when I’d went out, I’d meet a different celebrity. Funny & cool.

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I feel it always more money to live in any city that y they are city to me i feel it better to live outside the city where it cheaper i live in New York and it way cheaper then the city thanks DARI you are the best 💖 just like to say you are so Gorgeous 🤩 thanks for everything you do for us 🤗 please take care of yourself and be safe beautiful 🤩❤️✌️🤗

"First Month, Last Month, and Security Deposit" - New Englanders (and NYC is too close to New England) like their rent fees. Don't forget to pick up the Security Deposit, which is refundable, traditionally at the end of a rental (provided they have not argued for keeping some of it due to damage, but then that becomes a small claims court issue - like "Judge Judy"). I have seen enough of different Russians' videos to know they pay "realtor fees," but I'm guessing that this is not refundable. Don't miss out on money due to an assumption that it is the "same thing" you are used to!

Hi Dari. Your videos are fun and informative. You are Adorable. Love watching, listening to you. $1300 seems to be ok in todays Times. Later, Stay Safe.

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The subway makes a Queens apartment convenient. There is an old bit of joke-wisdom that you probably have heard-- you can furnish your apartment with what's being thrown out on the streets! And if that's not "funny" enough-- there's a lot of really nice furniture, old stuff, that just needs to be cleaned up and sold as an antique!

You have a nice apartment in New York good luck with your studies in Europe.

3:55 My God! $3,000 is the salary of a surgeon in Hungary. And $1,300 is a good salary. The average is approx. 1000 dollars

Cash Jordan has YT channel which reviews cheap nice NYC apartments.

Evidently, NY has been good for your health. Good

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I'll be your roommate for next semester. No problem. I like to cook fish, but I'm sure you're ok with that.

Imho, that's not a bad size bedroom anywhere.

That's expensive for anywhere else in the US too.

I pay $2160 for 4 weeks 1 bed room apartment in outer Sydney ,

I like America so much It is a great nation

Don’t rent if you don’t have to. Make investments and make sure your income is more than your expenses 😜

If you want something good try ethnic enclaves. For Russians it’s always around Brighton beach towards little Odessa. That’s where the majority of Russians live still. Hit the Chinatowns for different types of Chinese as we are all different. The area around Macys has the best koreatown. Little Italy manhattan is ok but it’s lost its charm but queens is like Italy as they still speak true Italian and serve mostly Italian customers.

I remember how relieved I was when you finally found an affordable apartment! Making generalizations about the US is always risky. Quite often college dorms are less expensive than living off campus, but I think it’s more common to share a bedroom when you live in a dorm. I think it’s fairly rare grad students to live in dorms. Thanks for another interesting video.

The rent in Florida is so much cheaper. Like a grand less. You can get a nice 2-2 apartment for about $2000 sometimes less in places. You also can get everywhere pretty easily too.

almost same price as your istanbul flat? this show that istanbul prices are crazy

Biggest lesson is to NEVER be a guarantor to anyone. Dont understand why people risk it even for family.

As a Finn I don't understand why anyone would want to live in NYC. Already in the 80:s a friend's uncle who was a New York cop called it the sewer. Decades of far left policies have made it even worse. Fantastic history and architecture but sad what it has become. I would prefer a small town in the Midwest for much more bang for the buck.

Dari when you are going back to Russia?

I see Tom from Texas on RU-vid channel and Tom s would be wife is Russian I mean his girlfriend is Russian

That is an excellent price for an apartment almost anywhere in the U.S.

I guess this video means you will be staying in New York for the time being.

Misleading title.You are showing a $1300 room in a shared apt where you have to share the bathroom and kitchen with other people and you are not even in Manhattan.It's just the reality in NYC how overpriced everything is here especially when we add how dirty & unsafe this city is.People barely survive here on $3,000-$4,000 a month.

New York City desirable? Yeah right, even Trump gave up on New York a long time ago

Please find your perfect partner in America and you will find that in America

Please marry an American man and settle down in America

Are you married to American man ?

Why? Love you but...WHY?😊

When you finish school move to much safer red state.

I couldn’t remember my rent so I looked through some emails and found a rental agreement for 2015 that was $1570 for a one bedroom in Rego Park Queens. 6565 Wetherole Street. Almost 10 years ago!!! Forgot the name of the place. It was a part time doorman building. Partly co-ops./ owners and renters both. I had a roommate who I gave her the room and I kept her rent at 40% so that when increases occurred her share would always be 40%. I believe this was our arrangement. I took the living room. I also had Q Dog. We had a foyer and a kitchen nook with a window and a table but our kitchen cooking space was smaller than the one in your video. I mentioned in my comments to your channel last yearish? how I arranged to get it - having worked for CitiHabitars/Corcoran the previous year. You did a good / very impressive job getting a good deal in a short period of time. Probably because of your experience traveling etc. Don’t stop learning. There’s always more to know in New York City apartment living. But I should reiterate for those looking for an apartment - having worked in Real NYC real estate - one of the biggest mistakes people outside NYC make in looking fir an apartment is: they know or heard of someone getting such and such a deal and they think they cannot get the same deal. This is not how it works in New York. Things change. If you think you can get a great deal you’ll miss all the good/fair deals. People can believe what they want. But like I said before, the goal should be to find a fair deal that you like and once you find it -put an application in immediately. Don’t wait to look around for a “better” deal. Or one like this one. The market is just too tight. Having an apartment in New f$&&@ing York City is an awesome accomplishment for anyone. Another fun and interesting video. Cheers