The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Governors Island is one of New York City’s great treasures, and during the summer it becomes one of my favorite parks in town, with a full schedule of festivals, concerts, and off-beat art exhibitions as well as plenty of space in which to walk or bike or picnic or play or read or doze or [...]
First, before I get to the map of celebrity homes, a word of warning: if you’re new in town, real New Yorkers do NOT acknowledge celebrities, whether you spot them on the streets, in the supermarket, at the playground, at your children’s school, eating out in your favorite restaurant, wherever.
“Downtown” NYC apartments actually span a number of neighborhoods, from the Village (West Village, Greenwich Village, East Village) all the way down to FiDi. Basically, anything below 14th Street is considered downtown.
I talk a lot about the huge, neighborhood-changing projects that will make a difference not only for residents of NYC rental apartments in their immediate vicinity, but that will also have a lasting effect upon the city a whole.
Ten years after the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11, a collective portrait of NYC’s Financial District today. Yesterday, September 11, 2011, marked the tenth anniversary of that harrowing, heartbreaking day on which, we all predicted, “everything had changed.” And, of course, in some ways we were right. Ten years after the World Trade Center [...]
