Not only jobs, but NYC apartments - although in the Voice not the Times.

As someone who lived in NYC for a while circa 1999 the process at the time as I recall it was using a newspaper classified ad to find a broker to find an apartment.

The vast majority of actual apartment listings were all gatekept within the broker system making hiring a broker (with an insane fee) effectively mandatory for actually finding a place to live in a reasonable timeframe.

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geoduck14 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What about the obituary?

	▲	theturtle 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
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busterarm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Brokers still gatekeep the best inventory in NYC for the most part.

Every craigslist apartment I ever found was sketchy as hell.

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pavel_lishin 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Every Craigslist apartment listing I've ever seen turned out to be through a broker as well.

	▲	busterarm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They have/had broker/no-broker categories and I never had the budget for broker. The broker ones are kinda big scammers though, from what I remember.