I’m converting from Happy Buffalo Undergrad to Starving NYC Law Student as of this August (Cardozo School of Law '07, baby). I’m trying to figure out a working budget, and so I’m wondering about prices for these items. (If it makes any difference, I’ll be living in Greenwich Village.)
Dozen eggs
Half-gallon of milk
Half-gallon of soy milk
Loaf of bread
Pound of coffee
… well, you get the idea. I’m interested in the prices of staple food items that I’ll be unable to avoid buying. And soy milk.
- Ace309, charmingly clueless.
Go to Gristede’s site
http://www.gristedes.com/index.asp
Put in Zipcode 10011 (for the W Village), Do some online shopping for your regulary purchased items - don’t check out and that should give you a budget #
I reccomend not living in the village if you’re not going to have enough money. Most of the places there have been taken over by trendy arty-farty types, and you’ll be paying an assload and a half in rent.
Ditto on that advice. Yes, there are rent-stabilized apartments around - but as a newcomer you won’t find them, no matter what unscrupulous types may promise.
Fortunately, although Cardozo doesn’t sit quite atop a subway station, it’s a short walk to almost every subway line serving Manhattan, and the PATH trains from New Jersey. That means you can live most anywhere, provided you budget in commuting time and the cost of monthly MetroCards (approx. $70). I assume Cardozo has a housing office to help students find roommates - you’ll get more space for the same money by going outside Manhattan (or, I should say, Manhattan below 96th or 125th St.).
Good luck!
If the OP is getting Cardozo housing, the cost is a pretty good deal, especially for the Village.
One thing to remember about New York is that you can hoof it to a grocery store (they’re nothing like Wegman’s, btw, they’re more like the crummy B-Quik’s in South Buffalo) and get better prices, or you can go to the convenient deli on the corner for staples and pay more.
Anyway, I get eggs for $2.89 per dozen, but I buy the organic farm kind because I like their pictures of happy chickens wandering around their farm. I think the regular kind of eggs are a lot less.
1/2 gallon of milk for $1.99, except for some reason this is usually on sale so you can find it for a little less.
A loaf of bread will run you between ~ $1.50 for the generic kind to $2.99 for the higher end stuff (like Pepperidge Farms bread).