The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
I’ve almost certainly eaten more Asian food (both “authentic” and “influenced”) these past four months or so than I had during the preceding four YEARS. Not that I’ve ever had anything against the cuisine, far from it. It’s just that, in a city that thrives on the new–and that has increasingly turned its attention to [...]
You have an active social life, but your monthly budget for rent makes it difficult to be able live in the heart of Manhattan. Or maybe even Brooklyn (and Long Island City rental apartment prices aren’t far behind). So maybe it’s time to check out Northern New Jersey? That’s not to say that the “NNJ” [...]
Two concurrent trends, seeming in opposition to each other, are running through the Manhattan rental apartment market right now. One is the mega-luxury-rental, those massive–and massively expensive–NYC rental apartments catering to the super-rich who want the freedom a rental affords, but also need to live in, say, a four bedroom penthouse on the 63rd floor. [...]
As East Village rental apartments get more and more luxurious and family-friendly–even those all the way over in the once no-go zones of Alphabet City, near Avenues C and D–it seems like a good time to honor that neighborhood’s rapidly receding past as the gritty domain of anarchists and activists, punks and squatters. Enter the [...]
Williamburg apartment residents of the movie-going sort–and, really, anyone with ready access to the L or the G train, in Brooklyn or Manhattan–got a terrific gift for the holidays this year, when the long-awaited Williamsburg Cinemas opened the week before Christmas.
