The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
If ever there was a public-space success story for residents of Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, and DUMBO–and all of us New Yorkers who love awesome things–the development over the past few years of the Brooklyn Bridge Park has to be it. For as long as I can remember this whole area between Atlantic Avenue and [...]
For the next two weeks, in an abandoned warehouse on Delancey Street, residents of the Lower East Side can get a glimpse of (fingers crossed!) the future. That’s because the folks behind the wildly ambitious dream to create an underground public park in an ancient trolley station–complete with trees, greenery, and actual “piped in” sunlight–are [...]
In the past few years residents of Brooklyn apartments (and brownstones) in DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, and Cobble Hill have seen–and will continue to see–an enormous transformation along the waterfront in that neck of the borough. And what a (mostly) excellent transformation it’s been so far!
If you’re actively looking for, or are currently a resident of, an Upper West Side apartment, or a Washington Heights apartment–basically, anywhere on Manhattan’s western shores from Lincoln Square to the Inwood–know that there are some interesting changes coming soon.
One of the many best parts about New York City? No matter how long you’ve lived here, there are always, ALWAYS surprising, pretty, exciting, amazing new things to discover. The city is full of secret streets and hidden gems that most people are not aware of.
