New Yorkers' wish-lists can be pretty basic: Decent kitchens, non-sweltering apartments and roommate-free living rooms

… summer and a home to call their own Five residents of New York share  their hopes and dreams … A modest kitchen … electric updated in this fourbedroom apartment but its a rental so for now my roommates and I have to  quite … room for all my good stuff like wine and cheese I guess the rent is fair and its better to have such a clearcut …

By Mayra David |May 18, 2015 - 3:15PM