Apartment Rentals in New York City – what you need to know.
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There a tons of beautiful picture books on how to creatively maximize small spaces for living. The web has tons of resources for the same thing. But every once in a while, someone does something above and beyond the usual. And then it’s time to take a look. Curbed.com has an interesting piece on Gary Chang, a Hong Kong architect…
Queens residents have started rebelling against their hyphenated addresses, asking why Queens is the only borough whose addresses are dashed. And there are no easy answers:
The latest trend in the commercial real estate industry: urban farming. In a few short months, we have transformed a temporarily idle construction site into a productive urban farm.
Your home\’s furnishings and layout can greatly affect your sleep and energy. The bedroom should used be for sleep and sex only, says…
It can include a real estate broker adopting the Native American tradition of burning sage in an apartment in preparation for the first open house. It can also extend to include the afternoon-long space clearings that Ms. Wendell does with clients,
How\’d you like to pay just over a thousand bucks a month for a place on the Upper East Side—for your car? Yep, the four-figure parking spot has arrived, as of last week
Thank you to BrickUnderground.com. Post by Openthedoor-man | 11/29/10 – 6:52 AM Tis the season to be jolly. Yep, jolly indeed are the doormen of every building hustling and bustling in tune with the sugar plums and ginger bread cookies dancing in our heads. Okay, who the hell am I fooling? It’s really because of those beautiful envelopes and what’s…
The City Room blogger at The New York Times Online has been doing us all a public service. Kudos to her. She started asking what kinds of controversial demands New York City landlords make on renters, particularly those renters that need a guarantor.
Though the heated eviction battle over the Carnegie Hall studios is over, not all of the former tenants are ready to forget about their longtime homes.
A heartbroken upper West Side couple has slapped a dog-walking service with a $1 million lawsuit, charging its employee left their beloved pooch to die of heat exhaustion.
Administrators in some co-op and condo buildings have attempted to ban smoking not just in common areas, but in private apartments as well.
Apparently, it’s better to be a pothead than a cigarette smoker in a NYC co-op or condo these days.
by Openthedoor-man Monday, July 12, 2010 on BrickUnderground.com As recently as a year and a half ago, I used to get a lot of complaints about hallways that smelled like ashtrays, or cigarette butts tossed onto another resident’s window sill below. Maybe because a lot fewer people smoke cigarettes nowadays (or they\’re just not doing it inside their apartments), most…
Most people have had the misfortune of sharing a living space with someone that made them miserable. Here are 50 of the best places online to read, share or laugh about the pain of co-habitation.
If were were going to write a new guide to Harlem, this is the guide we\’d try to write. But the good folks at DesignSpongeonline.com have done if for us.
Apartment 3E at 142 West 109th Street looks like a pretty straightforward New York City apartment. It’s a one-bedroom third-floor walk-up with a windowless office and only a little corner to call a kitchen. It has exposed brick walls and wood floors. It’s a couple of blocks to the subway.
Since television was born, TV shows have been set in New York City. From \”The Honeymooners\” all the way to \”30 Rock,\” generations of New Yorkers have grown up seeing their hometown used as a backdrop, or even a central character, in everything from sitcoms and cartoons to edgy dramas.
And then the fighting started. One couple’s marriage began unraveling, and the fighting sent their children running to other apartments. Suddenly our commune-like existence had become toxic and frightening.
A dog survived going airborne in New York after a gust of wind blew him from an 11th-floor apartment terrace to a rooftop five stories below, his owner said.
Which brings me to his latest gem of a find. It\’s a must visit. The New York Public Library has a wonderful digital collection, arranged in galleries. The breadth and scope of the collection is amazing and eclectic. But let\’s explore, just for a few moments, the collection called, \” \”Classic Six: \”New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s\”\”
The Hunt\’s Joyce Cohen profiles in the NY Times Real Estate Section how a renter, after several disappointments, finds an apartment through RDNY.com.
Brooklyn Heights is one of the most beautiful places to live in New York.
See where the major movies have been shot in New York.
Need an egg cream and Belgian fries at 3 a.m.? Then we need to keep stores like Ray\’s Candy Store in the East Village open, in spite of the bad economy.
But it\’s an interesting period piece. Kind of shlocky for a woman of her wealth. But there\’s something sort of refreshing about her down-to-earth pedestrian furnishings. Take a look here.
NYC\’s Top 10 Most Expensive Rentals
Sarah Jessica Parker, of Sex and the City, is on the cover of New York magazine this week. (Great photo by Andrew Eccles.) It\’s an interesting article, and Ms. Parker points out the same thing that I thought was the least believable part of the series: those women had entirely too much time to hang with each other. I don\’t…