The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
The heart of historic Greenwich Village finally gets the world-class coffee shop it deserves. True, there’s no shortage of fine caffeine-fueled establishments both to the east and west (and north and south; NYC has truly become a great coffee town), a long list that would include Joe the Art of Coffee, Prodigy, Everyman Espresso, Roasting [...]
Fact: New Yorkers love to be right about things, and we’re maybe especially passionate about where you can get the best ________. It doesn’t really matter what fills in the blank. Martini, everything bagel, grandma slice, salad bar, cheeseburger, paella, cappuccino, chocolate chip cookie… the list of argument-inciters is almost literally endless. And that’s just [...]
Living in Greenpoint has recently become a whole lot more restaurant-y. Just in the past month three new hype-worthy spots have opened up down around Transmitter Park (now with an awesome new pier!), including Alameda, a terrific-looking bar on Franklin Street, with food via a couple of Brooklyn Star vets; River Styx, on Greenpoint Avenue, [...]
Is fried chicken the perfect food? It’s fast and cheap. It’s fun to eat, familiar and satisfying. Lots of people make it well. And it usually comes with excellent sides. So: possibly perfect? Either way, there has been an explosion of southern-style joints opening all over this great city of late, so I decided to [...]
It’s been more than four years since the first Num Pang opened its rather ramshackle sandwich spot near Union Square, introducing most of us the wonders of Cambodian street food. Sure, we’d all been wolfing down Vietnamese sandwiches for awhile–this was the height of Bahn Mi craze–but Num Pang offered a remarkable variety of explosively [...]
