The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
There’s no slowing down the demand, the development, nor–most record-breaklingly–the price of Brooklyn rental apartments these days. According to the May Brooklyn rental apartment report released by MNS recently, overall rents were up, on average, a head-spinning 10% from last year… and the average cost of a Park Slope rental apartment rose an astounding 40%. [...]
Full disclosure: in my 30+ years of living in Manhattan and Brooklyn rental apartments, I have never had a doorman. Never known the joys of hassle-free deliveries, or the security of having some guy sit in the lobby all night; never known the awkwardness of forced cheeriness, or “getting busted” for late-night shenanigans.
No question, Rosemary’s West Village Italian restaurant, which opened earlier this month in the old Village Paper spot on the corner of West 10th and Greenwich Avenue, is one of the best looking new places I’ve seen in a long time.
No matter which neighborhood you find your apartment in, it’s likely that you’ll find yourself traveling through the Union Square area on a fairly regular basis. Just about every subway line in town stops nearby, and there are five movie theaters with more than 30 screens showing everything from art house flicks (at the Quad [...]
Chelsea residents have the easiest access to all of the cultural, culinary, and High Line-related delights that have come to define this pretty, lively west side neighborhood. But still, it’s an easy trip over there for the rest of us as well–with new things to see (and eat) always popping up.
