The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
My advice to any NYC rental apartment resident looking to explore the world-famous Chelsea gallery district is always the same: 1. Treat it like a ten-block-long museum, and go as often as you can. With more than 400 galleries, there are always plenty of new exhibitions, and everything’s always free. 2. Don’t get overwhelmed with [...]
No fee rental apartments in Chelsea have been among the most coveted properties in Manhattan for over a decade now. No surprise, really: families, young professionals, and creative types of all kinds love the community’s rather unique combination of nightlife (there are scads of first-rate neighborhood restaurants here), its opportunities for both recreation and relaxation [...]
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 was less than three years ago, while doing my usual Chelsea gallery rounds, popping in and out of all of those frosted-over doors without knowing what’s inside, that I first stumbled upon the incredibly intricate, deeply visceral wooden sculptures of Leonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins on 22nd Street. Totally blew me away. Then last [...]
One of the many best parts about New York City? No matter how long you’ve lived here, there are always, ALWAYS surprising, pretty, exciting, amazing new things to discover. The city is full of secret streets and hidden gems that most people are not aware of.
