The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Will Brooklyn’s Williamsburg ever going to stop getting so much attention? Uh, probably not. Because as long as this dynamic neighborhood keeps changing, and people keep opening interesting new restaurants and stores and movie theaters and galleries, and especially, if people keep building new Williamsburg apartments, we are going to keep talking about it. A [...]
It should come as no surprise that the most heavily-hyped NYC rental apartment building in recent memory, Frank Gehry’s soaring residential tower at 8 Spruce Street, continues to generate lots of press. After all, the immodestly named New York by Gehry was designed–right down to the doorknobs!–by arguably the planet’s most famous architect, and it [...]
Brooklyn rental apartments in some of the borough’s most sought-after neighborhoods sometimes come with issues unique to brownstone & small-building living. In communities such as Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Windsor Terrace, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights–basically, the area that’s informally known as “Brownstone Brooklyn”–one common type of Brooklyn apartment can be [...]
