Not exactly the White House
One bedroom, one bath, and, oh yeah, the president lived here: Inside the Obamapad
People pay every day to tour the estates of our great presidents: Jefferson's Monticello, Jackson's Hermitage, Washington's Mount Vernon.
So surely living in a former presidential abode is worth a pretty penny. At least, that's the thinking behind the new listing for an unassuming apartment on Manhattan's 109th Street.
Its selling point? It's the apartment Barack Obama lived in for a year in 1981, during his junior year at Columbia University.
For $1900 per month, one lucky owner will get this Upper West Side/Morningside Heights third-floor walkup, complete with one bedroom, one windowless bedroom/study (when Obama lived here, he shared the pad with a roommate), a tiny galley kitchen and exposed brick and hardwood floors.
Though it may sound egregious to those accustomed to Texas rental rates, $1900 rent actually doesn't include much of a presidential price bump. Having lived a block away, I can attest it's a pretty typical price paid for close access to Columbia, being a block from Central Park and around the corner from the ABCD and 1 subway lines.
“A place to live is for you,” Dalila Bella of CitiHabitats, the listing agent on the property, told The New York Times. “But people would be more inclined to take this one than, say, 4W, even if the other was a little nicer. It’s a dinner conversation.”
