Long Island City is a haven for families and "BYOF" bars

… In spite of its recent boom there are still plenty of New Yorkers who dont know much about Long Island City beyond … in hipster havens like Williamsburg and Bushwick  While New York as a whole has the ways and means but just wont let you … that for all the reasons listed at the top its a vastly superior environment for raising kids … Many New York

By Virginia K. Smith |January 28, 2016 - 11:59AM
Hey Ridge: Bay Ridge is only out of the way if you don't live here

… popular and according to some increasingly hip neighborhood Bay Ridge has joined the fray with the launch of  Hey Ridge … sport large detached houses and those farther have more apartments and rowhouses and such Newcomers or people moving … to find places these days on the south side south of 86th Street closer to the Verrazano Bridge probably because there …

By Virginia K. Smith |June 30, 2015 - 11:59AM
The Bed-Stuy Blog: Why the neighborhood needs better bagels, but will never be "the next Williamsburg"

… to get a feel for a place is by reading a neighborhoods blog In our  Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger  series we speak to the writers who chronicle the … a dream building in the neighborhood … Yes Can I give you 20 Or how about just one block My favorite block in all of …

By Virginia K. Smith |April 21, 2015 - 11:59AM