The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Remember when the Burger Joint was a secret? Opened in the early-aughts, the first Burger Joint looks like a down-on-its-luck coffee shop, located incongruously behind a curtain at the sleek and trendy Le Parker Meridien hotel in Midtown. The Burger Joint menu has about three items–burger, fries, shakes–and the motto is unashamedly unambitious: “If you don’t see [...]
If you’re dreaming of finding a rental apartment anywhere near Washington Square Park–and, especially, if you’re planning on sticking around for awhile–you should know this: that whole area, from the park to Houston street, is going to change, thanks to NYU 2031, aka The Sexton Plan.
You can get first-rate smoothies and squeezed-to-order juices all over town these days (no need to go the chains!), so the fact that Melvin’s Juice Box, on the border between Soho and Greenwich Village, sells invigorating concoctions isn’t all that unusual. Except that Melvin of Melvin’s Juice Box is Melvin Major Jr., who perfected his craft [...]
Ribalta Pizza, just opened near Union Square (technically it’s in Greenwich Village) in the rambling space that was home to Piola for years, is serious about pizza. Or should I say: serious about bringing the “complete Italian pizza experience” to this legendarily pizza-crazy town.
Opponents of the NYU expansion plans have won round one. To Greenwich Village residents: the neighborhood as you know it (and, one hopes, love it) appears NOT to be heading toward complete takeover by New York University’s monstrous, multiple-building, two-MILLION-square-feet construction project, at least for the moment.
