The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
A lot of times in this real-estate-crazy town you hear about a neighborhood, or even micro-neighborhood, that’s a sure-fire “next big thing.” New residential towers are coming, the hipsters say, along with new restaurants, new stores and services… everything about this unloved/undiscovered community’s about to explode. And then, often as not, nothing really happens, and [...]
Some NYC neighborhoods seem to pop on and drop off the “Next Happening NYC Neighborhood” list with frustrating frequency, as zoning plans change or the economy tanks or developers get distracted by the the next NEXT big thing. But the unlikely Brooklyn community of Gowanus seems to be a keeper. Up until a couple of [...]
There’s no slowing down the demand, the development, nor–most record-breaklingly–the price of Brooklyn rental apartments these days. According to the May Brooklyn rental apartment report released by MNS recently, overall rents were up, on average, a head-spinning 10% from last year… and the average cost of a Park Slope rental apartment rose an astounding 40%. [...]
A few times every summer I get a total craving for exactly the sort of meal they offer at Littleneck, a friendly, clam shack sort of place in the somewhat unlikely (though rapidly changing) post-industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, Brooklyn. It’s usually after a day at the beach–which for me usually means a day at the [...]
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.
