I did what everyone did 30 years ago, Ms. Schulman said, I asked everyone I knew if they knew about an available apartment.
That $250 represented a great deal of freedom, she said. For someone from the artistic economic class of people, your income fluctuates.
And the freedom could be enduring because the available apartment in the six-story building was rent-stabilized, which meant her rent increases would be measured and predictable.
I'm in the penthouse, she said, laughing. There's no one above me.
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