The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Some four years ago master baker Jim Lahey brought first-rate pizzas (and pretty decent salads) to an otherwise nondescript stretch of Ninth Avenue in Chelsea with the always fun and satisfying Co., which you should pronounce in its unabbreviated form as “Company”, because Co. always just sounds kind of odd when you say it and [...]
Rarely have I ever witness a neighborhood embrace a restaurant so quickly and with such love as when Top Chef Dale Talde opened up his namesake Talde last winter in Park Slope. The place was immediately slammed, and eight months later continues to be operating at full capacity, well into the night, with a lively [...]
You can get first-rate smoothies and squeezed-to-order juices all over town these days (no need to go the chains!), so the fact that Melvin’s Juice Box, on the border between Soho and Greenwich Village, sells invigorating concoctions isn’t all that unusual. Except that Melvin of Melvin’s Juice Box is Melvin Major Jr., who perfected his craft [...]
Fans of Italian comfort food will be pleased with the offerings are Galli in SoHo, a recently opened, mid-priced restaurant on Mercer Street.
Admittedly, the New York Mets have been mediocre (technically: worse than mediocre, actually), since their state-of-the-art stadium, Citi Field, celebrated its first Opening Day in 2009, trudging along at below-.500 clip through all four seasons in their new home.
