Apartment Rentals in New York City – what you need to know.
Your household is growing. You need a family sized apartment, but your budget is limited. You’re looking high and low for a good but cheap apartment in New York City. Cheap NYC apartments large enough for a family and in a good area are hard to find. Your solution? Look in the Bronx. Many Bronx neighborhoods are getting revitalized and…
Is The Bronx undergoing a renaissance? It still hard to tell, but when you speak with Bronx residents, all the signs are pointing in the right direction. The quality of the apartments for rent in the Bronx NY has been steadily improving over the past 10 years. Interesting apartment designs that were once found only in Manhattan have gone…
The New York TimesReal Estate Section did a profile of Clason Point by Vera Haller on November 2nd, 2012. The key takeaway from the article is how livable the area is. The area is a mix of single family homes, smaller apartment buildings, and condos. With no nearby subway connection, the area has maintained a flavor all its own. Most…
We’ve been telling our New York rental customers that the Bronx is a great place to live. Really. More and more, we’ve discovered the “small town” values in the various Bronx neighborhoods. Everyone knows that the Bronx is ethnically diverse. What fewer people understand is that the Bronx neighborhoods also have deep traditions and roots going back to colonial times….
The Achievables Three evolving neighborhoods that strike the perfect balance between affordable and desirable. By S.Jhoanna Robledo Published Mar 18, 2012 Inwood An under-the-radar area, you might think of it as the Upper Upper Upper West Side. Ditmas Park A diverse community with stand-alone Victorian houses, good schools, and a rich dining scene. …
Due to the beauty and charm of City Island, New Yorkers wonder how many apartments for rent are available on City Island. Not many.
We continue our survey of the New York apartment rental outlook. This time, were focusing on the rental market for Bronx apartments. We’ve excerpted this information from The New York Daily News. Thanks Daily News. Underrated as a strong housing market, the Bronx has unique and some of the most diverse neighborhoods in all of New York. From the shores…
Grand Concourse, the Bronx’s most famous street, has been compared with Miami Beach, because of its concentration of Art Deco and Art Moderne architecture.
Wakefield, the Bronx neighborhood around the 241st Street stop and one of the northernmost places in the city, shares more than a little suburban character with its neighbor across the border.
I love the NYC subway system. You pay one fare to go anywhere in the city, unlike Philadelphia or London (the only other cities whose public transportation I know about) which charges you based on how long you ride. Here’s a fascinating story by Andy Newman in the Aug 22, 2008 New York Times called The Curious World of the…
Before the summer of 2005, I’d never been to the Bronx on my own. My parents had taken me to the zoo once when we visited the relatives but all I remember from that visit was that I got a helium balloon and lost it. What I saw in summer 2005 has made me always fond of that borough. But…
My title for this post is a famous snarky poem by Ogden Nash called Geographical Reflections that everybody used to know. Everyone probably laughed back when Nash wrote his little ditty, but New Yorkers aren’t laughing at the Bronx now. I saw this in the New York Observer by Tom Acitelli: From 2001 through 2006, over 23,380 Manhattanites relocated to…
When I listen to the traffic reports, I always hear the same names: Major Deegan, Van Wike, the Kozkewsko, etc. I’ve always wondered who those people were and how people get big things named after them. I found out that knowing someone helps (no surprise there), and sometimes it helps to be a hero. Major Deegan, Bronx: Maj. William F….
It took me awhile, but I found some street names in Bronx and Brooklyn that honor women. I found this info from a lot of different websites and books. Cooper Street, Brooklyn: Bushwick resident Hannah Cooper once owned the land through which this street was cut. Coster Street, Bronx: Named for Julia Coster who was married to Francis J. Barretto,…
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…
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…
I first heard this record back in the days of vinyl. It came from a friend’s older sibling’s or maybe parents’ record collection. I was in 10th grade in Alaska at the time, and this music and was the strangest thing we’d ever heard. We all loved it even though none of us knew what the heck it was. Not…
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