The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
There’s no shortage of shopping and fashion news in this town, which makes sense, because there is definitely no shortage of shopping and fashion. Of course, some NYC neighborhoods do a better job than others at bringing it close to home, and your individual tastes may vary (Madison Avenue? Spring Street? Smith? Elizabeth? Bleecker? Bedford? [...]
I recently visited John Kessler’s newest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in Soho. If this is your kind of art, I urge you to make a visit. Mixed-media sculptor Jon Kessler has been a personal favorite for a bunch of years now, ever since I first saw his massive The Palace at 4:00 [...]
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 [...]
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.
