I, personally, have never been to New York so once I found out for sure that's where we were headed I quickly ran off to our local Travel store, http://www.mapsofnewmexico.com/, with Sarah in tow to find some sort of book that would tell me about this place I'm moving to. I originally wanted to purchase a book about NYC from the Lonely Planet series. However, after searching through the books I ran into the NFT series. Formally known as Not For Tourists Guide to NEW YORK CITY. Here's the link: http://www.notfortourists.com/. Check out the site. It's pretty awesome!
I also found a Transitwise map of the NYC Subway, LIRR, Metro North Trains, NJ Transit, Path Trains and Amtrak.
I'm sure these types of maps can be found for free in NYC but we wanted to know where mass transit was in relation to where we would be living. Sarah also found a neighborhood map of Queens. http://www.law.cuny.edu/student/StudentServices/Housing/HousingMap.pdf. We plan on living in the NW part of Queens as the law school is currently in the middle of Queens but next year will move to neighborhood of Long Island City. So for one year she'll be going to school in Flushing and then in 2011 she will move to http://www.law.cuny.edu/news-events/SchoolNews/two-court-square.html. On the right hand side of this page under the learn more you can read some interesting information about the green features of this building.
So we've been scouring through craigslist looking for apartments and wondering what our rent budget should be? Where am I going to work? What is the best location for us? Will it be safe?Can we park the car? As time draws nearer things will become firm and these questions will be answered but for now we just keep looking and hoping we'll find something that fits us.
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