The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Admittedly, the New York Mets have been mediocre (technically: worse than mediocre, actually), since their state-of-the-art stadium, Citi Field, celebrated its first Opening Day in 2009, trudging along at below-.500 clip through all four seasons in their new home.
From the massive textile maps and the maze of rugs in the MoMA’s atrium; to the smallest drawings and, even, just barely-there outlines of other drawings, upstairs in the exhibition’s second section on the sixth floor; to the near-obsessive use of typography, and collage, in works throughout; the career-spanning retrospective Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, now through [...]
If you’ve been out there looking for a NYC rental apartment, you know it’s tough right now: record-high rents, low vacancy rates, and so, for obvious reasons, few landlord concessions. And I’m not just talking Manhattan! Certain areas of Brooklyn (Williamsburg, DUMBO, Park Slope) and even Queens (Long Island City) can now be as pricey [...]
In the past few years residents of Brooklyn apartments (and brownstones) in DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, and Cobble Hill have seen–and will continue to see–an enormous transformation along the waterfront in that neck of the borough. And what a (mostly) excellent transformation it’s been so far!
In the heart of Williamsburg last week, on the same stretch of Havemeyer between South 1st and South 2nd Streets, on practically the same day, two new counter-service joints opened up not fours doors away from each other, each run by a veteran Williamsburg crew, each slinging made-with-love versions of classic American fast food.
