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Mai Pham's apartment setup calls for scissors, not a hammer

Her fourth NYC moving vlog mixes Lower East Side exploring with a cutting board hung using an improvised tool.

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Mai Pham Story of November 13, 2026Trari Newsroom

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MOVING TO NYC ALONE DAY 4 (kitchen + cleaning shopping, unboxing home gadgets)

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0:22Mai airs out her mattress, vacuums, waters plants and sets up an air filter in her apartment.
6:01A Lower East Side outing brings watermelon matcha, shoe browsing and a stop for curated home goods.
8:04Mai stops for lunch and meets a subscriber named Dexter.
11:02She uses scissors to hammer in a nail for her cutting board, then films the Manhattan Bridge at sunset.
16:28Back from the supermarket, she unboxes kitchen items, cleans the counter and prepares ingredients for cooking.

A cutting board needs a place on the wall, and Mai Pham reaches for scissors to hammer in the nail. It's a small, resourceful moment in a moving vlog that makes furnishing an apartment feel less like a finished reveal and more like figuring things out as she goes.

Mai posted nothing new this week, but "MOVING TO NYC ALONE DAY 4 (kitchen + cleaning shopping, unboxing home gadgets) " remains the busiest of her highlighted older uploads, drawing around 3,100 views a day. Several months after publication, its errands and apartment setup are finding viewers.

The outing has a purpose beyond buying kitchen supplies. "My intention is to explore new places that I haven't and take different routes," Mai says. She takes Sterling, her Pomeranian, out, browses the Lower East Side, stops for rice rolls and meets a subscriber named Dexter. Back upstairs, the practical work gives way to sunset views over the Manhattan Bridge.

Across the channel, daily views are close to their usual level, while subscribers were unchanged over the week. Among nearby lifestyle channels, Sydney Serena added subscribers and is drawing views above her usual daily pace; Mai's week was more subdued.

Her apartment vlog also has considerably more daily momentum than the highlighted Bali trip and first-class flight uploads. For the moment, settling in is doing more of the work than getting away.

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