The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Tracts of unused (or underused) Manhattan real estate have become increasingly rare in the past decade or so, and development-fever, which had slowed down for a bit in the recessionary years of late aughts, is revving up again. With a vengeance. The story plays out all over town–especially across the East River, in Brooklyn and [...]
Tired of hearing about the “next hot kind of undiscovered Brooklyn neighborhood”? Not me. Not with last week’s first quarter rental market report coming in, telling us that rents just keep getting higher in the fantastic Borough of Kings. In fact, Brooklyn rents overall were 11.3 percent higher than last year at this time, and [...]
There’s no shortage of shopping and fashion news in this town, which makes sense, because there is definitely no shortage of shopping and fashion. Of course, some NYC neighborhoods do a better job than others at bringing it close to home, and your individual tastes may vary (Madison Avenue? Spring Street? Smith? Elizabeth? Bleecker? Bedford? [...]
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 [...]
One of the interesting dynamics of living in New York City is the way we constantly switch between identifying with our macro- and micro-communities. For example, because of our excellent subway system (don’t let the complainers and the haters fool you: it is among the best, if not the best, on the planet), almost all [...]
