Apartment Rentals in New York City – what you need to know.
When it comes to funky apartments for rent in Manhattan, the East Village is at the top of everyone’s list. The problem is, we can’t really think of the East Village as the “cheap” neighborhood of last resort anymore. It’s gotten expensive! Still, it’s a great and exciting place to live. It’s vibrant! For 25 years, there was only one…
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.
McMansions have come to Manhattan. Alistair and Catherine Economakis and their two children need a 5 story apartment building (which had 15 rent-stabilized apartments when they bought the building) in order to live comfortably in Manhattan. Click here to see the diagram in full. The photo is by Ruby Washington and the illustration is by Frank O’Connell. While I think…
I missed the whole NYC punk scene. Actually, I didn’t know it was an American movement — I though it was from England, what with the Souixie Soiux, the Clash and the Sex Pistols — and I was surprised when I heard about CBGBs for the first time. By the time I was hanging in the East Village (’86/87), the…
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…
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