The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
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 [...]
If you’re dreaming of finding a rental apartment anywhere near Washington Square Park–and, especially, if you’re planning on sticking around for awhile–you should know this: that whole area, from the park to Houston street, is going to change, thanks to NYU 2031, aka The Sexton Plan.
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 [...]
These days, rental apartments in certain hip Brooklyn neighborhoods are getting so expensive that young professionals and the like are being forced to move… into cheaper Manhattan! Let’s just let that sink in for a minute, shall we? It’s now less expensive (in terms of “median price”) to move into a West Village studio apartment [...]
If you’re actively looking for, or are currently a resident of, an Upper West Side apartment, or a Washington Heights apartment–basically, anywhere on Manhattan’s western shores from Lincoln Square to the Inwood–know that there are some interesting changes coming soon.
