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:
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…
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Turning Art is a five-month-old online art subscription service run by a so-called “dynamic coalition of art-loving geeks” in Cambridge, Mass.
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While I have fairly big, tall cabinets, they only have a single dividing shelf. Because of this I have to stack my pots on top of each other and most of the time I do so haphazardly because they are vastly different shapes and sizes and don’t always fit into each other perfectly. (Also, I am messy.)
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I love to cook and do it often even though I lack adequate counter space, having created a makeshift one by putting a butcher’s block on top of my washing machine. I have even taken a five-day, 25-hour cooking course to learn all the basic techniques in cooking as well as several ethnic cooking classes.
But the more I know about how to cook, the less I seem to know about what to cook, as far as what constitutes “healthy eating” beyond elementary-school basics like fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
