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.
Posts by Kelly Kreth:
Family secrets, tangled relationships and the power of the past anchor the stories of best-selling novelist Eileen Goudge. Her saga of apartment life in New York has been a little less complicated and a lot less dark. Excerpts of our recent interview follow.
How did your New York adventures start?
Natalia Paruz is affectionately known as the Saw Lady to subway passengers around the NYC area who have spotted her at the Union Square, Herald Square and 59thStreet & Lexington stations playing showtunes, movie themes, classical music and her own original compositions on a carpenter’s saw. Today the Saw Lady tells BrickUnderground about her first apartment in an Upper East Side convent, why Astoria is her favorite neighborhood, and the reason she switched to a toothless saw.
Julie Klam, longtime NYC renter and self-deprecating author of Please Excuse My Daughter: A Memoir and the New York Times bestseller YOU HAD ME AT WOOF: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness, lives with her husband, daughter and Boston Terriers in Washington Heights. Today on BrickUnderground, she discusses her journey from the Upper West Side to the 160s, her slight case of condo obsession, and the best thing about Fresh Direct besides delivery.
Outspoken comedian and actor Amy Schumer has moved at least 8 times within NYC in the last eight years—experiencing many a roommate complication, and going to great (and often shady) lengths to secure a good deal on an apartment.
Known for her stints on the Jimmy Fallon Show, Last Comic Standing and 30 Rock, she will soon appear on Curb Your Enthusiasm and au naturel in the March issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Today she takes BrickUnderground on a tragiocomic journey through her apartment dwelling past.
What’s the one thing you would change about your apartment if you could? Here’s what these five New Yorkers would do…
