The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Remember how excited you were last July, when NYC ‘s awesome, ambitious bike share program Citi Bike was scheduled to launch? There were going to be bicycles everywhere! More than 400 bike rack stations throughout Manhattan (south of 59th) and parts of Brooklyn! Lots more coming soon! Commuting and getting around town was going to [...]
At first glance (and second… and third…), the newish Los Perros Locos, specializing in Colombian hot dogs, looks like just another drunk-food joint, all you need to know, done. The menu is filled with crazy, kitchen-sink concoctions (several include crushed Fritos; most have at least two kinds of sauce) called things like the “Pablo Escobar” and the [...]
I recently visited John Kessler’s newest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in Soho. If this is your kind of art, I urge you to make a visit. Mixed-media sculptor Jon Kessler has been a personal favorite for a bunch of years now, ever since I first saw his massive The Palace at 4:00 [...]
How often do you think about the tens of thousands of garbage cans on our NYC sidewalks and subway stations, parks and pedestrian plazas? Pretty much never, right? Except when they’re overflowing with trash because of some nearby festival or parade or whatever, and then you say “gross” and go about your day? And what [...]
The Whole Foods Bowery / Smorgasburg partnership has already brought some first-rate cheap eats to the second floor of that sprawling store, with Milk Truck’s quality grilled cheeses and Mighty Quinn’s sublime barbecue among the highlights since the program’s launch last fall. Really, it’s been a great addition to the neighborhood for Lower East Side [...]
