The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
I finally completed my rounds of New York City’s great summertime outdoor fairs, food festivals, and fleas–a list that would include the Brooklyn Flea Markets (called Brooklyn Flea for short) of both Williamsburg and Fort Greene; the all-food flea offshoot, the Williamsburg Smorgasburg, the Hester Street Fair on the Lower East Side, the Dekalb Market [...]
Lower Manhattan neighborhoods (not to be confused with downtown Manhattan, which includes areas south of 14th Street, such as the West Village, SoHo, Lower East Side, Chinatown, Tribeca, etc.) are now the site of some of the hottest markets for Manhattan rental apartments in the city. And with that comes more restaurants and services for [...]
The transformation of certain stretches of the Manhattan East River Waterfront from forbidding industrial dumping ground into easily accessible, pretty, and fun spaces got a step closer to reality last week, with a pair of announcements that will directly affect–and, one hopes, improve–the quality of life in certain Manhattan rental apartment neighborhoods.
New York City real estate groupies never tire of inventing new Manhattan neighborhoods (and to a lesser extent in the outerboroughs) whenever a few blocks of an existing community start to take on a new character, no matter how long or firmly the area has already been established in the city’s collective conscious.
Depending on how long you’ve lived in New York City, one of two things probably comes to mind when you hear “South Street Seaport”.
