Collaborative coliving in NYC

Make it here, make it anywhere

Smena Station is a peer led skillshare co-living for experts in different fields. Our main goal is to create meaningful experiences and raise living standards of our members by combining skills and resources. In less than six months we grew from one to four locations because we are not a business – we are a community. A community without borders that consists of professionals that do not tie themselves to one place. Rule breakers, mavericks, straight-A students that skip classes, discoverers that are always ready to set sails and live several lives instead of one.

Our next level co-living and co-working experience is for you if

YOU

✔ Have a project that you are proud of and want to develop it

✔ Dream of an idea that’s been laying on the shelf far too long

✔ Work remotely or want to learn how

✔ Understand that networking and the right people around are shortcuts to success

✔ Believe that knowledge must be shared

✔ Ready to give before asking anything in return

✔ Search for a life/work balance and ways to travel the world

✔ Want to emerge into NYC’s communities of innovators and trendsetters

✔ Imagine not only reaching your goals in a year but setting new ones

Radical Transparency

Smena Station is not for profit. We combine our resources and split expenses among the members. This allows us to get more value out of the money we are investing in the project.

Like-minded

international

environment

Proven program for reaching goals (read more)

No tourist bullsh*t – be a local

Comfortable living and working conditions

Non-profit community

We have also adopted Ten Principles of Burning Man, a project that inspired Smena Station and made it real.

Schedule and dates

An example of a day at the Station:

07.07 – acroyoga

08.45 – breakfast together

09.15 – members working on their own projects at the Station or in a café nearby

12.00 – a lecture on investing in cryptocurrency and bitcoin by one of the members

13.00 – free time

18.00 – a meet-up with a local crew of designers opening an art gallery

19.30 – communal dinner

21.30 – Movie Night: Perfetti sconosciuti.

Two week sessions:

03/10/2017 - 16/10/2017

17/10/2017 - 30/10/2017

31/10/2017 - 13/11/2017

14/11/2017 - 27/11/2017

If you want to stay for more than two weeks, please mention it in your application.

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Team #smenausa

Master of International space law, videographer, founder of ByeByeBadBoss, and Turbomasala, entrepreneur, speaks English, Chinese and French.

Nikita believes: you should only make money doing what you love. In his case - helping other people, creating a community, responsible travelling and skill-sharing. His calm and smooth energy, zen and harmony twisted with experience and vision helps people around him to reach their goals. He grew up with 5 brothers and a sister. The past seven years he has spent with his soulmate Anastasia Klimova-Kuimova. It seems that nothing can throw him off the balance neither on solid ground nor in the water where he is frequently seen surfing. A useless but cute fact - on the wave his grey eyes become turquoise.

Favorite quote:

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

- Christopher Morley

A graduate of Moscow State University with a degree in psychology, professional photographer and videographer, fashionista and co-founder of Turbomasala. Anastasia does seasonal business in Russia, USA and Europe. She also provides original storytelling and team-building workshops.

Anastasia is a generator. She knows how everything works, knows the price of this world and of her own ideas. She asks the necessary questions and will not rest until uncovering the truth. Being a perfectionist, she always brings everything to an optimal result. There’s one thing she cannot stand – a waste of time and resources. An ambassador of the Epytom brand, she follows the idea that you can be trendy with only 40 pieces of clothes in your wardrobe. Anastasia is an explorer, an analyzer and keeps everything in meticulous order. Her endless power has been the catalyst behind the creation of Smena Station. A founder of Holiday Orbs, a thriving family business. In addition, she was one broken ankle away from representing Russia on the national snowboarding team. A great surfer and a person who is never blind to problems of others.

This Station is curated by the founders of Smena – Nikita and Anastasia. They’ve been living in NYC for the past several years (when not traveling around the world) and are willing to share with you their secret spots and bring you into local communities of the City.

(written by other Smena members. More stories here)

Our New York City Station

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Where else can you experience real New York City but living in a factory building loft? This beast has been home for artists, designers, entrepreneurs and trendsetters for more then a decade and developed a strong community and personality that you'll dive into while being a part of Smena.

✔ 4 bedrooms (5 members and 2 curators)

✔15,000 sq.ft rooftop with skyline views

✔ Spacious common area with 15-foot ceilings for work, leisure and lectures

✔ Private patio for members

✔ A fully stocked bathroom

✔ A nearby park for jogging and yoga

✔ A fully stocked kitchen

✔ Laundry in the building

✔ Verizon FIOS 75/75mb/s Wi-Fi

✔ Glowforge - first ever home laser for cutting and engraving any materials.