(video) An Inside Look at President Obama’s NYC Apartment

Moving on Up

– via AOL Real Estate –
Long before President Barack Obama lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, he lived in a beat-up two-bedroom apartment on the third floor of an Upper West Side walk-up. Like many struggling, cash-strapped college students (he was a junior at Columbia University in 1981), Obama grappled with scarce heat and hot water in the apartment, causing him and his roommate, Phil Boerner, to frequently seek warmth in diners and libraries.