Live @ The Apt

03 Aug Live @ The Apt

I Googled my neighbor the other day.

I was taking my garbage to the trash shoot when I saw a box with his name clearly printed on it. He hadn’t ripped the label off. I memorized the name.

Have you ever thought about what your neighbors know about you? Without actually knowing you?

This particular neighbor, the one that I Googled, I’ve seen him enough times in passing to say hello and ask about his day. But I also wonder what he knows about me based on hearing the things I listen to, packages outside my door or even trash I leave at the shoot.

In my last apartment, a lady somehow received my mail, Googled me, found my blog, came over and gave me her niece’s email. She said she felt like she knew me.

See? I’m not the only one.

The New York Times wrote about one women’s search for an apartment in the city that required her to share her social media handles. Obviously, she panicked.

Apartments in New York—looking for one, living in one, hating one—bonds its residents. According to rent.com’s survey of 1000 U.S. millennial renters, apartment size, price and a location close to your job (or off the train closest to your job, I’d venture further and say) are at the top of a very stressful priority list.

To bring a few laughs to the labor of leasing (and getting to know your neighbors, however you do it) Rent.com partnered with Live @ The Apt. The monthly underground stand-up show happens in apartments all over Manhattan and Brooklyn featuring some of the city’s best up-and-coming comedians.

The show I took in was at The Dylan on Fifth, prompting not only laughs, but me declaring that I found my next apartment.

Can you blame me? The rooftop has views of the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the Freedom Tower.

Wearing: Forever21 Studded Linen Vest// Cynthia Rowley Silk Tank// American Eagle Silk Shorts// J.Crew Sandals

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Sign up here for a chance to attend. I strongly suggest it. Laughing with friends, taking in the best of New York’s skyline has to offer is one of those experiences that makes you really appreciate living here.

No, but tell me you’ve Googled your neighbors too. I’m not really that much of a creep, right? Right??