BrickUnderground

I left Hell’s Kitchen seven years ago and moved back to the neighborhood where I grew up, Astoria, for financial reasons. This time, I didn’t go to my parents’ place, but my own two-bedroom apartment located in...

Before I moved to Chelsea, I was subletting a really tiny two bedroom in the East Village on the edge of Alphabet City. My apartment on East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A was a walk-up, with no doorman or...

When my older brother got married and moved out of his one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights,  I moved in. That was 2006 and I was single.

The apartment was in a brownstone--the top floor--three flights up what...

When I moved from 148th and Broadway (Central Harlem) to Tenth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets (at the edge of Hell's Kitchen and Midtown West), I had one thing in mind: I wanted a shorter commute to my job in the...

My move from Greenwich Village to midtown happened due to life circumstances: I took over the lease on my mother’s apartment when she moved to Florida and I was splitting up with a boyfriend.

At the time, I thought my...

I like to be in the thick of it all. And when I was living in Williamsburg, I wasn’t. To me, that neighborhood is so quiet and slow. Even though it has a reputation for nightlife, it's nothing compared to the scene in...

I’d been living in a loft in East Williamsburg for about 10 years. It’s a huge space that I shared with three other women. Over the years I’ve had dozens of roommates and, often, a friend was staying on the couch or someone...

I’d been living with a roommate in a railroad apartment deep in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I liked the neighborhood, but the crowded 45-minute long commute to Midtown was killing me. 

Also, I had to walk through a public...