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Bright and spacious apartment available for Nov 1. It is currently configured as a huge 1BR, but the landlord is willing to convert back to a two bedroom — see alternate floor plan. The unit features an amazing, furnished private patio (753 sq ft) as well as a chef's kitchen with farmhouse sink and high-end stainless appliances including dishwasher. Beautiful hardwood floors throughout. Two full bathrooms, central HVAC and washer/dryer in unit as well as sleek recessed lighting, video intercom, and large windows allowing for great natural light.
Building amenities include a second floor common terrace for all residents, and free bike storage. Pet-friendly (subject to owner approval). Parking may be available for a separate fee. Take advantage of the burgeoning art scene, restaurants and exciting nightlife only minutes away. The JMZ trains at Halsey St. are just one block from your front door.
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As one of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York, Bushwick offers a perfect snapshot of just how multicultural the city is. Long-established as an amalgam of cultures and ethnicities, a wave of varying types of immigrants trickled in from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, with Bushwick largely becoming a home to Hispanics of Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds by the latter part of the twentieth century.
With the Bushwick Initiative of the mid-00s that aided in revitalization, it became an attractive area to young professionals and artists. And even now, Bushwick has sustained affordable rent prices where other North Brooklyn counterparts, like Williamsburg and Greenpoint, have become more expensive. Priding itself on the weird and the wacky, numerous art collectives thrive in this part of Brooklyn, once famously named the seventh coolest neighborhood in the world by Vogue.
Though it has drawn in many tourists in recent years (there’s even a graffiti tour you can take from the Bushwick Collective), the neighborhood remains very much community-oriented, and has not been subject to quite the same sort of corporate infiltration phenomenon of its nearby Williamsburg environs.
But yes, of course, Bushwick has come a very long way from its 80s and 90s reputation as being “The Well,” a nickname given to it for its free-flowing and widely available amount of drugs (quantity over quality being the cliche applied here).
Rentals have been launched at 243 West 28th Street, aka Ruby, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. This mid-block property is located between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue and sits directly across from the Fashion Institute of Technology. The Ruby consists of two 22-story towers separated by an interior courtyard. The property’s footprint extend...
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