DIY & Apartment Hacks

When it comes to living in NYC, you have to get a little thrifty. The average rental price in Manhattan is over $50 a square foot! Rather than curl up in a ball on your love seat and cry, you might want to get smart about what you do with your extremely valuable space.

We all know that New York City is insane, but this story from The Real Deal takes the cake. Manhattan’s most talked-about luxury apartment building, One57, will be selling storage bins to its residents for $4,000 a square foot!

This tiny, foldable micro-apartment on the Upper West Side is on the market for half a million dollars! You think...

Any New Yorker will tell you that one of the hardest parts of living in New York City is leaving New York City. Spending three months in Spain is a distant dream for most of us, because traditionally, a trip like that would entail abandoning your lease, moving all of your stuff to a storage facility, and finding a new job when you get back to the States. After you’ve spent a month hunting on Craigslist for the perfect apartment, the last thing you want to do is give it up.

Have you ever wished you could pick up and move to a foreign country at a moment’s notice? Who hasn’t dreamt of spending six months in Madrid perfecting their Spanish and then flying back to New York like nothing ever happened? A new subculture of hyper-minimalist ‘technomads’ strive to make this dream a reality using all the conveniences modern technology has to offer.

Living in New York City is hard. The weather is drastic, the commute is brutal, and the pace never lets up. Succeeding here is all about endurance, and for those who are new to city living, it may seem impossible to deal with the challenges of NYC. That’s why we put together this urban survival guide. Here are some ‘life hacks’ for those of you residing in the big apple

This week, we spoke with the multi-talented Brooke Stone, of Brooke Stone Lifestyle Management. You may know the actress-turned-professional-organizer from her appearance on an episode of A&E’s Hoarders a few years back. Brooke was kind enough to tell us about the relationship between tidiness and productivity. We were shocked to learn our disorganized work and living spaces may be directly contributing to a lack of productivity and sense of peace in both work and home life.

When we heard that the first ever ‘cat cafe’ in North America was opening just a ten minute walk from our office, we had to go. These coffee shops full of playful kitties have long been popular in Tokyo, where strict renter laws prevent most citizens from keeping pets in their apartments, but these havens for cat-lovers are seemingly perfect for New York City where lots of animal lovers can’t keep a pet in their apartment for a different reason, because they just don’t have the space.