The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Do you like mini-doughnuts? Then Doughnuttery may be just for you. No question, Chelsea Market is one of New York City’s great revitalization success stories of the past decade. What easily could have been a sterile collection of chain stores, crappy eateries, and unimaginative tourist-bait souvenir shops is instead a vibrant collection of local businesses, [...]
I’ve almost certainly eaten more Asian food (both “authentic” and “influenced”) these past four months or so than I had during the preceding four YEARS. Not that I’ve ever had anything against the cuisine, far from it. It’s just that, in a city that thrives on the new–and that has increasingly turned its attention to [...]
Whoa. Just: whoa. First of all, Houston Hall, owned by Jon Bloostein of Heartland Brewery and just opened on the borderlands between the West Village, Soho, and Hudson Square, is freaking enormous. As in, one of the largest single rooms you’re likely to enter this year, with 5,000 square feet of open space made [...]
There are plenty of places at which West Village rental apartment residents can readily feed their need for cupcakes, from mini-chains like Crumbs, Melissa’s and Magnolia to local (and, frankly, much better) spots like Butter Lane in the East Village, Billy’s in Chelsea, Babycakes and Sugar Sweet Sunshine on the Lower East Side, and Little Cupcake [...]
I was a huge fan of M. Wells, the short-lived, much-mourned Long Island City diner from Chef Hugue Dufour (late of Montreal and the great Au Pied de Cochon) and his partner Sarah Obraitis. The explosive flavors, the insane creativity of the kitchen, the fun, casual vibe… M. Wells was, for the year or so [...]
