Two recent NYU graduates and a UC Santa Cruz student are camping out in a Brooklyn backyard for a rent of $100 a month each. Since June 1, they have been living in three one-person tents, pitched in the backyard of a six-unit Bushwick apartment building, where six of their friends occupy a duplex apartment. Louis Frank, Simon Levy and Emerson Brown, all 22, are temporarily living in the tents for the summer, while they search for jobs, according to Brokelyn, which broke the story. The three friends pay the rent to their friends in the duplex, which guarantees them access to the kitchen and bathroom, in addition to the backyard. Frank said while they could easily have their parents pay for an apartment, living in the tents gives the friends a sense of independence. The address of the apartment building was not specified.
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NYU grads rent in Bushwick backyard
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