The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
You walk by these Manhattan rental apartment buildings all the time, in prime neighborhoods like the Upper West Side, Kip’s Bay, Chelsea, Gramercy, and the Upper East Side, the ones that probably seemed all fresh and contemporary when they first opened their doors in the 1960s and, especially, the 1970s, but now can’t shake their [...]
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.
If you’re looking for an Upper East Side rental apartment–and not in the “fancier” precincts along Fifth, Madison, or Park Avenues; or in Carnegie Hill, or Gracie Point, but in the more regular-people part of the neighborhood, between, say, Third and First Avenues, and 68th and 96th Streets–it’s always a good idea to get a [...]
“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.
The Upper East Side, or UES, is actually composed of several sub-neighborhoods, including Yorkville, Carnegie Hill, Gracie Point, Lenox Hill and, believe it or not, Roosevelt Island. Many Yorkville apartments are definitely a bit out of the way–it’s a looooong walk from the eastern side of the nabe, to Lexington Ave and the subway–but then, [...]
