Jeremy Lin finally gets a new apartment, and a place in NBA history

Jeremy Lin's long, national real estate nightmare is over. Like many young professionals working in the New York City metropolitan area, he struggled for weeks to find a suitable living space as his role with his employer was far from assured. Now that his contract option has been picked up for the rest of the season -- and, er, Lin has absolutely set the sporting world on fire with his week and a half of jaw-dropping play for the New York Knicks -- Lin has decided to move into former Knick David Lee's old apartment in the Trump Towers (not those Trump Towers) in White Plains, N.Y., near the team's practice facility.

Lee still owns the apartment, and is subletting it to Lin in the same way he did with current Knicks big man Amar'e Stoudemire last year while the All-Star looked for a Manhattan apartment of his own. This lineage means that Lin is clearly the best defender to have lived between these particular walls. And true to a New York-area's tenant board, some of his new neighbors are somewhat happy with this. From the New York Daily News:

"I'd say 90% of the people in the building will be very, very happy," said tenant Daniel Ratki, 32.

Ninety percent, eh? Harvard educated, soft-spoken man and cheerful man of devout religious beliefs, greatest thing to happen to sports in who knows how long, Savior of the Saint-less New York Knicks. Ninety percent? That's a tenant board, for you. "So, Mr. Christ. We hear you like to walk around with sandals. And how much of this water, exactly, will you be turning into wine?"

(No, that's not a reference to Lin's religious beliefs. Stop it.)

Lin will pay $3,800 a month rent, and will live in the same general area (if not complex) as some of the other Knick youngsters. The Daily News has pictures of apartments in the White Plains Trump Towers, but not Lin's apartment.

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