The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
While many people may know of Jennifer’s Way, a gluten-free bakery in the East Village, what they may not know is the Jennifer behind the shop is actress Jennifer Esposito.
There are plenty of places at which West Village rental apartment residents can readily feed their need for cupcakes, from mini-chains like Crumbs, Melissa’s and Magnolia to local (and, frankly, much better) spots like Butter Lane in the East Village, Billy’s in Chelsea, Babycakes and Sugar Sweet Sunshine on the Lower East Side, and Little Cupcake [...]
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 [...]
It wasn’t so long ago that the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus had many of New York City’s (and the country’s) biggest developers chomping at the bit, throwing money around, planning huge residential projects that would transform the area’s post-industrial landscape. No small scale development in sight, these were big plans.
Lauren, who works in our office, is a bit of a foodie, and always looking for the latest and greatest restaurants, bakeries, gourmet shops and more. She took a minute recently to tell us about some of her favorite places on the Upper West Side.
