The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Art-lovers from all over town may be excused for being a little confused by the Family Business gallery on West 21st Street in Chelsea. For one thing, it’s tiny. Like, smaller than any room in your home, including that half-bath off the front hall (if you have one of those). I mean, yes, the ceilings [...]
Living in the Union Square area is appealing for many reasons, of course. There’s the dozens of first-rate restaurants and bars, suitable for all occasions, from acclaimed high-end spots such as Gotham Bar and Grill and Union Square Cafe to excellent cheap eat joints like Dos Toros and Num Pang. Union Square residents have [...]
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 [...]
Long Island City rental apartment residents have seen the Clocktower building a million times, one of those geographic landmarks you use almost without thinking when you’re in the Court Square part of the neighborhood. And though the once-mighty Bank Of America headquarters–built in 1927 (the tallest building in Queens!), abandoned in 1980s, overshadowed by the [...]
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 [...]
