The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Do NYC residents really need another weekly food festival? Between the Hester Street Market on the Lower East Side; Mad Sq. Eats (just opened in the shadow of the Flatiron for a month-long run until October 19); Urbanspace Meatpacking under the High Line; and, of course, the various enterprises from the folks that started it [...]
Climb six flights above the center of Columbus Circle and lounge in a luxury living room with Christopher Columbus himself… all 13 feet and multiple marbled tons of him? Yes please! Starting last Thursday and continuing daily (and eveningly) through Dec 2nd, Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi’s totally fun public art installation, Discovering Columbus, invites you [...]
Some four years ago master baker Jim Lahey brought first-rate pizzas (and pretty decent salads) to an otherwise nondescript stretch of Ninth Avenue in Chelsea with the always fun and satisfying Co., which you should pronounce in its unabbreviated form as “Company”, because Co. always just sounds kind of odd when you say it and [...]
For the next two weeks, in an abandoned warehouse on Delancey Street, residents of the Lower East Side can get a glimpse of (fingers crossed!) the future. That’s because the folks behind the wildly ambitious dream to create an underground public park in an ancient trolley station–complete with trees, greenery, and actual “piped in” sunlight–are [...]
My fondness for the real estate site Curbed is no secret, not only because, for me, it’s the easiest, more entertaining way to get an constantly updated overview of the constantly changing NYC rental apartment scene, but also, as a resident of a NYC rental apartment, I love Curbed’s coverage of all sorts of neighborhood [...]
