Woman divulges secret way to find rare rent-stabilized NYC apartments — and it’s not for the faint of heart: ‘I was exhausted’

Maria Simulescu

A New York City renter has gone viral after revealing the painstaking strategy she used to score a two-bedroom stabilized apartment in Central Brooklyn — for a sweet $1,680 per month. But Alexandra Dye’s incredibly hustle-heavy method, laid out in a TikTok video that has racked up more than 335,000 views, is not for the faint of heart. It requires digging through expired listings on StreetEasy, cold-emailing brokers in bulk and accepting a brutal rejection rate that would discourage most