I've seen advertisements on some of the boards from a guy based out of IJD who offers to come to you in his airplane (an Aztec, I believe) and offer you instruction/PIC time at a low price. Someone else might be able to give you more details. Also, Danbury Flight School at DXR has a Seneca for rent, the rates are fairly reasonable, though as I recall you needed a fair ammount of flight time in order to rent it. Do a search for their website, it listed the minimums on it. They offered a discount on block time when I used to fly from there. There's a school at Groton. (I want to say it's called Action Flight School, but don't quote me on that) that I've heard good things about-- don't know if they rent. Also, there was a school at BDR that used to do multi training, but I don't know if they still do or not. I had heard about a year ago that Quest Air at OXC was acquiring a Baron, but I don't know if they were going to do training/rentals in it or if it was going to be strictly for charter. That's it for CT so far as I know, can't help you with NY or NJ.