My web development program through the Flatiron School is September through December. After that Nicole plans to move back to the United States. Her and I are going to get an apartment together near Bank Street, her school.
In the meantime, however, I needed a place to live. Luckily, I found a subreddit for NYC Apartments. I procured a place to live in Bedford Stuyvesant, aka Bed Stuy, with a guy named Jon and his dog Peggy. Jon worked as a barista and Peggy was a dog so didn’t do anything.
Back in Florida, I rented an SUV with my friend Victor, and filled it with as many of my worldly possessions as I could, which worked out to about half. Victor and I drove through the night and made it to Brooklyn in 18 hours including stops for gas and one dinner at Shoney’s.
We arrived in Brooklyn the next day around 7am and unpacked my stuff. After unloading, we dropped the car off at JFK airport around the corner. The attendant we returned the car to was shocked by the quick time we made between Florida and New York. After dropping off the car we returned to the apartment and passed out for about 2 hours. Victor slept face down on the wooden floor. I slept in a chair. We were both so tired that it didn’t matter.
When we woke we walked around Williamsburg and took the subway to Manhattan to see the Freedom Tower. We walked around Wall Street and the Financial District as well. That evening, we met up with my cousin Ryan at Barcade, a really cool bar/arcade mashup. I got a call saying my mattress and bed frame arrived so we hailed a cab back to the apartment and moved it in before it could get stolen off the stoop. That night we got Victor to his bus in Chinatown where he rode back to Ohio.
I took the subway home and called it a night. It was weird having a new home, and even weirder being without Nicole for so long. At this point it was nearly a month since we last saw each other. I kept focus on Flatiron and learning as much Ruby as I could so that when Nicole returns I can get a good job and afford the crazy New York rent prices.
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