Obama’s Former NYC Apartment For Rent

Currently advertised on Craigslist is an apartment — unit 3E at 142 West 109th Street near the border of Manhattan’s Upper West Side and Morningside Heights neighborhoods — that just so happens to be the apartment President Obama lived in when he was a student at Columbia University in the early ’80s. You can take a video tour of the flat……

…Still, the pad has some detractors at least so far as its 1980s condition is concerned. New Yorker editor David Remnick, in his recently published book on Obama, “The Bridge,” describes the apartment as a virtual slum-trap-dump so revolting that the future president extended his time on the Columbia campus just to avoid spending time inside the apartment. What’s more, Remnick writes, the future president was often forced to journey elsewhere for the comfort of an occasional hot shower. “As a transfer student, Obama wasn’t able to get Columbia housing, and so for the next couple of years he lived in a series of cheap off-campus apartments,” Remnick writes. “The first year he had made arrangements to share a third-floor walkup with his Occidental friend Phil Boerner at 142 West 109th Street, off Amsterdam Avenue. They split the monthly rent of three hundred and sixty dollars. The apartment’s charms included spotty heat, irregular hot water, and a railroad-flat layout. They adjusted, using the showers at the…

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