Much love to the people who recommended Chicago, I promise I will repay you one day, but, having cleared all the tuition stuff with my graduate program, New York City is official yayyy I'm a New Yorker now I guess. By sheer luck, the poetry program offers housing for graduate students, but I'm not confident I'll get a great offer for housing or in an area I'd like to live in. Is Craigslist/Streeteasy the way to go? Should I try anything else?