Crash Pads

[Paul Tomblin]

I was listening to Joe Dion's "Come Fly With Me" podcast, and he mentioned
professional pilot's "crash pads" in New York City. And suddenly I'm
intrigued. I'm considering taking a job at Google in New York City, but
my wife doesn't want to move, so I'm thinking what I need is basic
accomodation to crash at 3-4 nights a week while I work 12+ hours a day,
then I'll come home to Rochester NY for a long weekend, and a room full of
bunk beds, half of them empty, for the nights in NYC sounds ideal. So the
question is: can non-pros take advantage of these things, and how do I
find one?

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I didn't need to sabotage anything. Not being around to say "No that
won't work" or "you can't do it that way" is more than enough damage.
(Ego problem? It's not a problem.) -- Graham Reed, on job endings

[F. Baum]

On Apr 2, 4:39*pm, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
> I was listening to Joe Dion's "Come Fly With Me" podcast, and he mentioned
> professional pilot's "crash pads" in New York City. *And suddenly I'm
> intrigued. *I'm considering taking a job at Google in New York City, but
> my wife doesn't want to move, so I'm thinking what I need is basic
> accomodation to crash at 3-4 nights a week while I work 12+ hours a day,
> then I'll come home to Rochester NY for a long weekend, and a room full of
> bunk beds, half of them empty, for the nights in NYC sounds ideal. *So the
> question is: can non-pros take advantage of these things, and how do I
> find one?
>
PT, They probably would not want a Non crewmember at a traditional
crash pad because you would be there alot more often than anyone else.
It might work best if you got your own apartment and rented space to
commuters. Years ago there used to be a place called Kue Gardens in
New York, that was full of crewmembers. You might check there,
Otherwise, if you know any ALPA members there are always acomidations
listed on the web boards. If you know anyone who works at an airline
they can check the bulletin boards in the pilots or FA's crew lounge.
Good Luck,
Frank

[Christopher Brian Colohan]

(Paul Tomblin) writes:
> I was listening to Joe Dion's "Come Fly With Me" podcast, and he mentioned
> professional pilot's "crash pads" in New York City. And suddenly I'm
> intrigued. I'm considering taking a job at Google in New York City, but
> my wife doesn't want to move, so I'm thinking what I need is basic
> accomodation to crash at 3-4 nights a week while I work 12+ hours a day,
> then I'll come home to Rochester NY for a long weekend, and a room full of
> bunk beds, half of them empty, for the nights in NYC sounds ideal. So the
> question is: can non-pros take advantage of these things, and how do I
> find one?

I know several folks who work at Google in Mountain View who live in
San Francisco or the LA area and have crash pads in Mountain View for
weekdays, or live in Mountain View and have crash pads in SF for
weekends. It would be worthwhile asking around at work to find people
to share a place with.

Alternatively, you could ask around at tech companies which are _not_
in NY. For example, I am sure there are folks who work at IBM
Yorktown and have crash pads in Manhattan for weekend visits. You
could take weekdays, and they could take weekends...

Chris

[Ron Natalie]

F. Baum wrote:
> Years ago there used to be a place called Kue Gardens in
> New York, that was full of crewmembers.

It's Kew Gardens.

[William Hung[_2_]]

On Apr 2, 6:39*pm, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
> I was listening to Joe Dion's "Come Fly With Me" podcast, and he mentioned
> professional pilot's "crash pads" in New York City. *And suddenly I'm
> intrigued. *I'm considering taking a job at Google in New York City, but
> my wife doesn't want to move, so I'm thinking what I need is basic
> accomodation to crash at 3-4 nights a week while I work 12+ hours a day,
> then I'll come home to Rochester NY for a long weekend, and a room full of
> bunk beds, half of them empty, for the nights in NYC sounds ideal. *So the
> question is: can non-pros take advantage of these things, and how do I
> find one?
>
> --
> Paul Tomblin /
> I didn't need to sabotage anything. *Not being around to say "No that
> won't work" or "you can't do it that way" is more than enough damage.
> (Ego problem? *It's not a problem.) -- Graham Reed, on job endings

Me thinks it would be more fun to bunk with the cabin crew vs the
cockpit crew, but that's just me. <g>

Wil

[Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]]

(Paul Tomblin) wrote in
:

> I was listening to Joe Dion's "Come Fly With Me" podcast, and he
> mentioned professional pilot's "crash pads" in New York City. And
> suddenly I'm intrigued. I'm considering taking a job at Google in New
> York City, but my wife doesn't want to move, so I'm thinking what I
> need is basic accomodation to crash at 3-4 nights a week while I work
> 12+ hours a day, then I'll come home to Rochester NY for a long
> weekend, and a room full of bunk beds, half of them empty, for the
> nights in NYC sounds ideal. So the question is: can non-pros take
> advantage of these things, and how do I find one?
>

We generally stay in hotels. Some FBO's have rest bunks, but probably
your best bet if you're talking about weekends in NYC is to check for
hotels that do rooms by the week for corporations. They're empty on
weekends and very cheap. I took one years ago. It was big, an apartment,
really. Fairly handy for seeing the city and it had parking. I think it
was in a newspaper. At that time, it was less than 100 for the whole
weekend and it slept four in two seperate rooms.



Bertie

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Ron Natalie > said:
>F. Baum wrote:
>> Years ago there used to be a place called Kue Gardens in
>> New York, that was full of crewmembers.
>
>It's Kew Gardens.

Or "Crew Gardens" to the flight crews that bunk there.

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cut their backs open and pull their lungs out from behind?
-- Ina Faye-Lund, on script kiddies

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

"Paul Tomblin" > wrote in message
...
>I was listening to Joe Dion's "Come Fly With Me" podcast, and he mentioned
> professional pilot's "crash pads" in New York City. And suddenly I'm
> intrigued. I'm considering taking a job at Google in New York City, but
> my wife doesn't want to move, so I'm thinking what I need is basic
> accomodation to crash at 3-4 nights a week while I work 12+ hours a day,
> then I'll come home to Rochester NY for a long weekend, and a room full of
> bunk beds, half of them empty, for the nights in NYC sounds ideal. So the
> question is: can non-pros take advantage of these things, and how do I
> find one?
>

I've seen that sort of thing listed on CraigsList.org - $xxx for "space"
$yyy for your own bedroom near DTW (Detroit), I assume that New York would
be similar...

Look under rooms/ shared

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