Apartment Rentals in New York City – what you need to know.
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There are 499 places in Manhattan, 4 places in Brooklyn, and 1 place in Queens that are what the city calls privately owned public space. That happens when builders get exemptions to local zoning laws in exchange for providing open space for public use. This post is for renters and non-renters as a tip to help you know your rights…
March is Women\’s History Month, so I wondered how many sisters were honored with a place name in NYC. I love that there\’s a story behind every place name in NYC. This post is about names in Manhattan. All of my info in this post comes from the terrific book by Henry Moscow called The Street Book. I heartily recommend…
For a flat fee, you can sit on the NYC subway\’s longest train line — the A train — from 207th St in Inwood all the way out to the Atlantic Ocean at Far Rockaway. I haven\’t done this yet, but Kevin P., a Listings Agent at RDNY.com who lives in Inwood, has done it and he says it takes…
Five Points, the area near Columbus Park in downtown Manhattan so lovingly portrayed in The Gangs of New York, is nowadays part of Chinatown. The movie faithfully shows you the violence, squalor, filth, and poverty of The Points, but it missed the vibrancy of NYC\’s melting pot. In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Liam Neeson are Irish immigrants who are…
The Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers are eternal New Yorkers. They all were born over 100 years ago but their legacies resonate into the 21st Century. The Three Stooges were mainly the Howard brothers (born Horwitz), Lithuanian Jews who grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn at the turn of the 1900s. Brownsville had a well deserved reputation as a vicious…
Here\’s an interesting article from the New York Observer that says rents are going down in Doorman buildings:
When you’ve lived in NYC long enough, you’ll know the addresses of the buildings you see on TV as the homes of the characters. RDNY.com\’s Listings Manager, Clay, is a whiz at this game. I count on him telling me the address of most buildings in the establishing shots (come people call them “bumper shots”). Friends: Monica, Chandler, Rachel, and…
HBO had one of the funniest shows on TV last summer called Flight of the Conchords. New episodes are coming in 2008, but you can watch clips of 2007 shows if you missed them on HBO. The show says the guys live in the East Village. I wonder how they afford the rent since they seem to never work. I…
According to the New York Sun, the developers of a new condo building at Jackson Square Park have installed a wireless broadcaster at the construction site that allows free Internet access for anyone in Jackson Square Park. Keep the address 122 Greenwich Ave handy for those spring days when you want to work on your computer outside.
This town we love was first settled by the Iroquis and Alaconquin tribes, and later (1625) was invaded by Dutch members of the West India Trading Company — businessmen! Isn\’t that soooo New York? Our town was called New Amsterdam until the English took over and re-named it New York. Here is a list of words you\’ve seen around town…
More history to honor Black History Month. Manhattan was urbanized by the Dutch in the 1600s and they named this part of the island after the largest tulip-growing town back home: Haarlem. Tulips were a huge, HUGE business for The Netherlands back then. Really. In the 1920s, NYC\’s Harlem became the center of a conflagration of brilliance that happens oh,…