The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
If you’re actively looking for, or are currently a resident of, an Upper West Side apartment, or a Washington Heights apartment–basically, anywhere on Manhattan’s western shores from Lincoln Square to the Inwood–know that there are some interesting changes coming soon.
Foodies rejoice… Fairway announces new Kips Bay location! The first thing I should tell you, just to establish my bona-fides, is this: I love food shopping. Grocery stores, butchers, greenmarkets, bakeries, “specialty stores”, the weekly fleas and fairs, all of it. I go out to buy food at least three times a week. Sometimes four or [...]
One of the many best parts about New York City? No matter how long you’ve lived here, there are always, ALWAYS surprising, pretty, exciting, amazing new things to discover. The city is full of secret streets and hidden gems that most people are not aware of.
Another month, another record for Manhattan rental apartments, and not in a good way for would-be Manhattan renters. Because although the average Manhattan rent in May only went up by an insignificant-sounding nine dollars, that does mean that the average Manhattan rental apartment now goes for an astonishing $3,438 a month.
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 [...]
