I shared an apartment with Strauss-Kahn
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- Published on Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:17
- Written by Erik
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Well, almost. According to today's New York Times:
Lawyers for Columbia University alerted the district attorney’s office that they did not want Mr. Strauss-Kahn to stay with his daughter, who lives in graduate housing on 112th Street, according to a lawyer briefed on Columbia’s position.
I stayed in that building for a summer! It's just outside of Columbia U campus and down towards Riverside Drive. I was off from Yale and didn't want to go back to Sweden. Instead I explored the city and sat in the Hungarian coffee-shop by St John the Divine writing over-due term-papers. It was hot and very New York: kids making water features out of fire hydrants, salsa music coming from passing cars, confused homeless people, cockroaches in the bathroom.
Actually I have some tips for Strauss-Kahn if he really wants to stay there. I sublet the apartment from a friend and security was not happy with that arrangement. I had to lie my way into the building every evening and quickly sneak out in the morning when the guard was looking the other way. Well, I was 25. It was great fun.