Me and my team have recently been accepted to Dreamit Venture's New York.
It's all really great, but we are coming from abroad. Trying to find a nice apartment in NYC from Israel is proving to be nearly impossible.
Apart of craiglist and AirBNB, what other solutions are there for finding reliable sublets from abroad?
Unfortunately, good subletting opportunities can be quite difficult to find most buildings explicitly prohibit the behavior.
I'm not sure how old you are, but depending on your age, you may be eligible for summer housing through studenthousing.org. NYU and Pace also have great summer dorming options, but they only offer housing for the entire summer rather than for specific time frames (which will likely be a problem given the nature of DreamIt's Israel-NYC time split).
Usually short-term rentals are very expensive (AirBNB certainly is), but http://www.nyhabitat.com/new-york-apartment.html seems to be the most reasonable provider around.
Of course, Craigslist is also always an option, but there are no guarantees and it helps to know a bit about each building/location first.
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help out!
While looking for an apt a few months ago, I'd come across postings several times a day matching the specific criteria I was looking for. They'd all look like decent opportunities, but upon further inspection they all turned out to be pointless links to your pointless service.
I was looking for 1brs with "union square" in the title. I can only guess at the total number of spammy posts you are responsible for on a daily basis.
It wasted a lot of my time and was very frustrating.
Shame on you.