The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
The Madison Square Art program does it again. As residents of Flatiron rental apartments well know, in addition to providing a lovely, well-designed oasis of grassy lawns, winding paths, and plenty of benches, the great Madison Square Park has emerged as one of the city’s pre-eminent stages for public art, year after year commissioning unexpected [...]
NYC rental apartment residents don’t really need an excuse to go stroll the High Line on a pretty spring or summer day (or night). Despite the inevitable hordes of out-of-towners, hanging on the High Line remains, even after three years since its opening, one of my favorite outdoor activities.
We love the High Line at Urban Edge, and the recently revealed plans for the High Line Phase 3 have us doing a little happy dance for what is to come. It’s been almost three years since the NYC’s High Line changed the face of the western side of Chelsea, its clever, contemporary architectural design [...]
Governors Island is one of New York City’s great treasures, and during the summer it becomes one of my favorite parks in town, with a full schedule of festivals, concerts, and off-beat art exhibitions as well as plenty of space in which to walk or bike or picnic or play or read or doze or [...]
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 [...]
