The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
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, [...]
Some feared that Hurricane Sandy would stifle the waterfront dreams of city planners and private development companies. They needn’t have worried. True, there are many NYC apartment buildings in need of repairs six months after the superstorm, and many more are still using exterior, “temporary” generators for their power. Also, the A train to Rockaway [...]
It’s not like it really surprises me at this point, that NYC residents are living in a kind of golden age of massive design and construction projects, as seemingly every empty (and/or out-dated) square foot of land is being developed to within an inch of its life. In fact, for the most part, with some [...]
These days, rental apartments in certain hip Brooklyn neighborhoods are getting so expensive that young professionals and the like are being forced to move… into cheaper Manhattan! Let’s just let that sink in for a minute, shall we? It’s now less expensive (in terms of “median price”) to move into a West Village studio apartment [...]
Park Slope residents, your neighborhood just got a whole lot more beery. A few weeks ago, in the southern end of Park Slope, right next door to the lovely Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn native Ted Mann opened up his 13,000-square-foot, indoor- outdoor-drinking mega-spot, Greenwood Park.
