The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
You have an active social life, but your monthly budget for rent makes it difficult to be able live in the heart of Manhattan. Or maybe even Brooklyn (and Long Island City rental apartment prices aren’t far behind). So maybe it’s time to check out Northern New Jersey? That’s not to say that the “NNJ” [...]
If current trends continue, more and more people may be looking at the NJ Gold Coast as a more affordable place to live, and it appears that developers are already gearing up for an influx of new residents. What is the Gold Coast? It’s a series of cities and towns in Hudson and Bergen counties [...]
With Manhattan rental apartments hitting record high prices and prospective tenants frustrated by the lowest vacancy rates in a decade, many NYC rental apartment seekers are again casting their bargain- and square-footage-hungry eyes across the Hudson… and being rewarded with a booming Northern NJ apartment market, with many new developments open and being built.
These days it seems that indoor swimming pools have become almost an expected amenity in a certain class of newly constructed luxury rental apartment buildings in Manhattan, and to a lesser extent, the outerboroughs. And, of course, there are certain advantages to swimming inside, mostly having to do with the months October through May. But [...]
