Neighborhood blogger Christina Seid on Chinatown's store closures and hotel frenzy

… to get a feel for a place is by reading a neighborhoods blog In our  Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger  series we spoke to the writers who chronicle the … Since we last  checked in with Seid  in February 2013 Chinatown has seen an even greater influx of new …

By Julie Inzanti |June 30, 2014 - 3:59PM
Boogiedowner: You may want to consider investing in the Bronx now

… Boogiedowner a Bronxbased blog and the subject of this edition of  Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger covers local issues and goingson in the boogie down … Originally founded by Erin and Lou Cicalese in the early 2000s Boogiedowner was recently taken over by Desiree Joy …

By Julie Inzanti |September 25, 2013 - 9:12AM
Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger: "Put on some big boy pants" and open your minds to Sheepshead Bay

… Sheepshead Bites a blog focusing on Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn and the subject of this installment of Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger was founded in May 2008 by lifelong Brooklyn resident Ned Berke   Berke …

By Julie Inzanti |August 21, 2013 - 9:01AM
Gowanus Your Face Off: Looking beyond the open sewer to a promising neighborhood

… subject of this edition of Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger was founded almost five years ago by Ben Aufill a producer and designer who has lived in the area since 2008   Gowanus in case you dont know is a neighborhood in … a community in an otherwise uninhabitable area Aufills blog focuses on the local happenings of the Gowanus …

By Julie Inzanti |August 7, 2013 - 8:57AM
We Heart Astoria: What's not to love about an understatedly hip nabe with water, a great park, diversity & a growing food scene

… latest in BrickUndergrounds Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger serieswas started in 2010 by three Astoria enthusiastsMeg Cotner Mackenzi Farquer … Heart Astoria she is the creatorwriter for the foodfocused blog Fooditka     We Heart Astoria focuses on hyperlocal …

By Julie Inzanti |July 17, 2013 - 8:58AM
Greenpointers: A real community bracing for its skyscrapers

… voice to BrickUndergrounds  Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger  series   Galatioto grew up in Middle Village Queens but when she moved to Greenpoint Brooklyn in 2010 she found a real sense of community and home and wanted to blog about it So a year later she bought the blog  …

By Julie Inzanti |July 1, 2013 - 11:25AM
F'D in Park Slope: Wanna move here? Better get a baby or dog pronto

… few years and then Manhattan before moving to Park Slope in 2006 Reitman fell in love with Park Slope after visiting … … Reitman lamented the lack of a snarky Park Slopecentric blog so she founded one in November 2008 Its a  pretty … who looks at everything through a lense of humorso the blog reflects her personality … Reitmans blogging sidecareer …

By Julie Inzanti |June 12, 2013 - 8:57AM
"I Love Franklin Avenue": A blogger's-eye-view of the Cobble Hill/Williamsburgzation of Crown Heights

… Nick Juravich moved to Crown Heights in 2008 to work as Brooklyn Coordinator for the  New York Road … and riding subways all over Brooklyn and he started a blog I Love Franklin Avenue as an effort to make sense of … City in the 1960s and 70s   He narrowed the scope of his blog from a general overview of not only Crown Heights but …

By Julie Inzanti |May 15, 2013 - 11:10AM
Hoboken411: Hard-partying 20-somethings make way for young families

… location within the neighborhood to live … If money was no object most people would want to live on the upscale streets … something I would change Many of the older buildings have excellent styling but most of the newer properties multiunit …

By Julie Inzanti |May 2, 2013 - 10:29AM