A dear friend of of MiMa Cat and Groovy Grandpa is looking for a JULY SUBLET in BROOKLYN for his friend, S.  "The word "desperate" appears frequently in your blog; in this case there can be no more accurate adjective," he writes. The following is taken from his email to me.

After years of waiting for his green card, a Brooklyn Heights elder caregiver, is finally a fully documented U.S. resident.

Now his wife and 10-year-old daughter are planning their first trip to the States and urgently need a place to stay.  The requirements are simple and  flexible, but hard to put on a laundry room bulletin board. 

1.  They would need a one-bedroom apartment, since S. will be spending a few nights a week en famille. 

2. They should be reasonably near transportation.   

3. They are arriving on July 1st and leaving on July 31st.  That’s where the flexibility comes in.  I guess the ticket could be changed for a later arrival if essential.  Also, they would be able to vacate the apt. for a night or two should some vacationing owner wish to fly back to NY for a night or weekend in his/her city digs. 

Rent would be negotiable, but, obviously can’t be unrealistically high (whatever that means.) And they are animal lovers, too. 

S. was an MD in Ukraine and his wife is a practicing child psychiatrist.  Olanka, their daughter, would love to have a dance school in the vicinity so she might continue her lessons ,but that certainly isn’t  a requisite.

They are warm and wonderful people. S is one-of-a-kind, an educated, hilariously funny lifesaver,

If you or anyone you know has an apartment/house you’d like to sublet in park Slope, the Heights, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Ft. Greene or Cobble Hill (you get the idea) please email me: louise_crawford@yahoo.com