The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
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), [...]
There are innumerable perks and benefits to finding a suitable NYC rental apartment and settling down in this, the best place on the planet. Here’s one: the vast amounts of incredible art, geared toward every taste imaginable, in galleries all over town.
In the heart of Williamsburg last week, on the same stretch of Havemeyer between South 1st and South 2nd Streets, on practically the same day, two new counter-service joints opened up not fours doors away from each other, each run by a veteran Williamsburg crew, each slinging made-with-love versions of classic American fast food.
These days, rental apartments in certain hip Brooklyn neighborhoods are getting so expensive that young professionals and the like are being forced to move… into cheaper Manhattan! Let’s just let that sink in for a minute, shall we? It’s now less expensive (in terms of “median price”) to move into a West Village studio apartment [...]
