The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
My advice to any NYC rental apartment resident looking to explore the world-famous Chelsea gallery district is always the same: 1. Treat it like a ten-block-long museum, and go as often as you can. With more than 400 galleries, there are always plenty of new exhibitions, and everything’s always free. 2. Don’t get overwhelmed with [...]
As East Village rental apartments get more and more luxurious and family-friendly–even those all the way over in the once no-go zones of Alphabet City, near Avenues C and D–it seems like a good time to honor that neighborhood’s rapidly receding past as the gritty domain of anarchists and activists, punks and squatters. Enter the [...]
Williamburg apartment residents of the movie-going sort–and, really, anyone with ready access to the L or the G train, in Brooklyn or Manhattan–got a terrific gift for the holidays this year, when the long-awaited Williamsburg Cinemas opened the week before Christmas.
Here’s another first for Brooklyn residents in Williamsburg, East Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Bed Stuy: Bklyn Beast, the city’s first and only training center for those urban acrobatics/sports of Parkour, Capoeira, and Breaking. Located on the borderlands of Bushwick and East Williamsburg (and close enough to the L train to make it an easy destination-gym), [...]
Long Island City rental apartment residents have seen the Clocktower building a million times, one of those geographic landmarks you use almost without thinking when you’re in the Court Square part of the neighborhood. And though the once-mighty Bank Of America headquarters–built in 1927 (the tallest building in Queens!), abandoned in 1980s, overshadowed by the [...]
