[gigawatt]

Another New Yorker here. Just sell the car in Austin. You can get a bed & mattress at the Ikea in Brooklyn for $500 or less and they'll deliver it. You're not going to want the added hassle of trying to sell a car in a new and huge city while you're trying to get settled. Plus, you will get parking tickets. It's almost unavoidable.

[mkopinsky]

You can also get a bed from somewhere cheaper - all these places deliver. I don't remember how much I paid, but I'm pretty confident it was <$200.