Kelly Kreth

New Yorker Manuel Neto was fed up with the noise and garbage outside his apartment building in Harlem, where he lived on the first floor. He decided to take advantage of record low mortgage rates and buy in a new construction building in Jersey City. Now he has double the space and has cut his monthly expenses in half.

HBO’s new miniseries “The Undoing” is like a mashup between a fictional “Real Housewives of the Upper East Side” and “Dateline”—in the best possible way.

Brick Underground asked New Yorkers about their craziest and most challenging moving day woes. They didn’t disappoint.

“Vampires vs. the Bronx” is a comedic horror movie directed by Osmany Rodriguez and co-written by Rodriguez and Blaise Hemingway. The film focuses on a group of young teen boys tracking newcomers who they believe vampires intent on buying up all the local properties—and making local residents who stand in their way disappear.

When the Yorkville store selling video porn downstairs from a New Yorker named Robert closed, he was more dismayed by what took its place: A Peruvian chicken restaurant that made him and his girlfriend lose sleep because there was lots of noise until late at night. It also created a huge insect and rodent problem that ultimately led to a lawsuit in Housing Court.

After being quarantined in our NYC apartment for about six weeks, we decided we were ready to leave the city for greener pastures. We had been considering places to move over the last two years and the pandemic really gave us the push to do it. A friend who grew up in this rural area of New Jersey—where New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey meet—found this rental house for us.