Kelly Kreth
Contributing writer Kelly Kreth has been a freelance journalist, essayist, and columnist for more than two decades. Her real estate articles have appeared in The Real Deal, Luxury Listings, Our Town, and amNewYork. A long-time New York City renter who loves a good deal, Kreth currently lives in a coveted rent-stabilized apartment in a luxury building on the Upper East Side.
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Doug was sharing a small two-bedroom in a fifth-floor walkup on the Upper West Side when his future mother-in-law connected him with a friend who wanted to sublet her 900-square-foot one-bedroom (with a terrace!) at 113 West 75th Street.
It was 1992, and she wanted a paltry $700 a month for a place that would have rented for $2,500 a month. Doug is a real estate broker. He knows.
Native New Yorker Dan Holzman, the co-owner and chef of the Meatball Shop, a restaurant chain with five city locations, grew up on the Upper East Side and began his cooking career at age 15 at Le Bernardin.
At 18, while still living with his mother, he bought a motorcycle and knew she would either “kill him or be heartbroken,” so he decided it was time to leave the nest.
For almost two years, Robert rented a two-bedroom apartment at East 72nd Street and York Avenue. He and his wife, Rachel, loved the light, the access to a rooftop pool at a sister building and the great doormen. Its 32nd-floor perch afforded views of all the bridges on the East River and Roosevelt Island too.
In the warmer months, “the mornings were truly amazing with the sun beating down and our family of three sharing breakfast on the terrace,” Rachel says, referring to their then two-year-old daughter.
