Category Archives: East Village

4 Brunch Picks to Try This Weekend

 
If you live in New York, you more than likely love to find a great brunch place on the weekend, especially in the summer when you can sit outside with a good meal and good friends! With literally hundreds of restaurants to choose from it’s difficult to find a place that you enjoy. Like other New Yorkers, I like to take a couple of hours to enjoy brunch and have found some personal favorites that I found myself frequenting time and time again.
The first is 7A Cafe in the East …

by Phylis J. Iqbal on July 29, 2011

The Narrowest House in NYC

For years on Manhattan, the West and East split ways and tried very hard to ignore each other. Nowadays, a friendly rivalry between the East Village and the West Village has been fueled by comparing the amenities available in both neighborhoods. The latest competition was sparked by the return of 75 1/2 Bedford Street to the market. This four story townhouse is on the market for $4.3 million, even if it is a mere 9 and a half feet wide. The house is so narrow that it has long been known …

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by Michael Foster on July 5, 2011

Home is Where?

 
The attitude of a New Yorker toward New York City, like the city itself, evolves over time.
When I first moved to the city in the nineties, I was a hungry young artist, eager to add my name to the endless list of bohemian aspirants who have come to New York to work on their dreams. I therefore considered the East Village the ideal place to live, and all other neighborhoods, whatever their charms, felt less like home.
But I wound up on the Upper East Side instead, and after a period …

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by Noah Diamond on March 22, 2011

What’s in a Name (or a Neighborhood)?

 
Every so often, we receive breaking news of a so-called “new New York City neighborhood.” In recent decades, we’ve been asked to add TriBeCa (the “triangle below Canal Street”), NoHo (“north of Houston Street,” modeled on the forty-year-old designation of SoHo, “south of Houston Street”), and even DUMBO (“down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass,” believe it or not) to our local lexicons. Even more recently, there have been attempts to brand NoLita (“north of Little Italy”), CanDo (“Canal Street downtown”), and BoHo (“Bowery south of Houston Street,” whose nickname at …

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by Noah Diamond on February 27, 2011

When It Snow’s In New York…Be Prepared

It was another snow day here in New York City, and I don’t know if you noticed but the day was a perfect for heading to New York public parks for some fun in the snow. Minus the transit troubles, the city was beautiful. Just check out my friend Gillian’s view outside her balcony on East 89th Street, a tree line shot right to Central Park:

If you are a new comer to New York, or you are planning to buy a new condo in the area, here are some tips …

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by Anthony Longo on January 27, 2011

CONTRACT SIGNED 145 East 15th Street, Unit 11C; Spacious Alcove Studio for $494,500

Gramercy Arms Cooperative
This is your chance to own a stunning, bright and spacious alcove studio/junior one bedroom at Gramercy Arms. Sun drenched with open views to the south, this move-in ready home boasts abundant closets, separate kitchen with stainless steel appliances, dining and living areas and easily converts to a true one bedroom.
Conveniently located two blocks from both the East Village and Union Square, Gramercy Arms is a prominent full service co-op building, close to Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and surrounded by great restaurants, shopping and transportation. The building is …

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by Anthony Longo on January 27, 2011

Hot Air

Central Park, December 2010

Given the wintry mixes with which our city has been battered in recent weeks, it seems a good time to discuss heat, both literal and figurative.
First: Is there any area of New York that is not at least occasionally referred to as one of “New York’s hottest neighborhoods?” Google that phrase, and among copious results you’ll be told that the city’s hottest include Alphabet City, Astoria, Allerton, Arden Heights, and Annadale — and that’s just the As. Some neighborhoods, like Greenwich Village, Soho, and Tribeca, have been referred to as “one …

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by Noah Diamond on January 19, 2011

Condo’s On Top of An East Village Synagogue?

Times are looking rough for the Anshei Meseritz Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street. Curbed NY reports that is is about to celebrate it’s 100 year, but attendance is low and building needs lots of work. From the exterior it’s really beautiful. I remember many times strolling buy it and admiring it’s architecture. The Rabbi seems to be brainstorming on some ideas of how to sustain this this economic climate. One of the ideas is to sell the space above the synagogue for the placement of luxury condos. Then there is …

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by Anthony Longo on November 14, 2010
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