The NabeWise development team has a new blog, Adaptive Synergy. If you are into programming, here’s their latest post: “Tapping into Distributed Erlang from Rails” -Ann
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Changing Scenes: A Gentrifying South Bronx
“SoBro” flows effortlessly off the tongue as though it were part of a nursery rhyme. But the story of this neighborhood—from “hell on earth” to a hip locale—is more complex than the name lets on. For generations, SoBro, traditionally known as Mott Haven, was a crime-infested junkyard. In the 1950s and 60s, poor immigrant families [...]
A Sense of Historical Place
When was the last time you questioned the history of the buildings in your nabe? Many of the structures in our cities have been reinvented a hundred times over becoming what we see today. Old buildings are often juxtaposed with new ones, giving us a comparison of the past and the present. In downtown New [...]
On the Move: Brooklyn Heights walk-up to a spanking-new Williamsburg studio
Thirty-three year old programmer Paul Dix does a little bit of everything around his mastery of Ruby on Rails: he’s a coveted speaker on the subject, a soon-to-be-published author, and he’s most-recently founded a company built on the programming language. However, his computer background alone could not help him move from his 4th-floor walk-up in [...]
Local Celebrity: East Village’s Jessica Amason
Web trend maker-and-author Jessica Amason started ThisIsWhyYourFat.com while hopping between apartments in the East Village over the past five years. The former website and now accompanying book she co-authored are a photographic testament to over-the-top junk food porn. Jessica has started a gross food movement. She describes to us how her hip neighborhood even has [...]
The Top Five New York Renting Resources You Probably Don’t Know About
NabeWise gets a shout-out over at The Huffington Post on the Top 5 Renting Resources you probably don’t know about. Rounding out the Top 5 unknowns: NakedApartments, Insurent, Twitter and City Move. Know that you are in the know, you can master the rent game.
