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New York

THE apartment has spacious windows, a sleek kitchen and expansive views of Manhattan. It boasts a prime location close to Central Park and Rockefeller Center and promises all the excitement of a luxury apartment in Midtown Manhattan.

And it was available for a substantial, but not completely unheard-of, price of about US$300 to US$450 a night through the home rental website Airbnb. Renters would just need to go through an extensive Secret Service screening downstairs.