New York City Luxury Rental Blog Archives for January 2013

A recent article in The New York Times talked about how New Yorkers dealing with critical situations in their lives have turned to a new kind of therapy to help them deal with it: relocation therapy. As it turns out, moving into a new home has had positive effects on people facing all kinds of tough scenarios. You could be wanting to get away from a messy divorce, or maybe you could be wanting a simple change of place—regardless of the reason, a new address could be just what you need to start your life anew. So if you think you need some relocation therapy in your life, here are five of our top picks on where to get a fabulous new home:

After finding it difficult to find a Manhattan rental that fit both their budget and their specifications, it was rather commonplace in the past for New Yorkers to take their apartment hunt to Brooklyn instead. However, these days, a reversal of this trend is happening—recent rental reports suggest that with apartments in Kings County seeing a surge in rents, many apartment hunters are realizing that they may be getting better deals by renting homes in Manhattan itself.

Around 2:30 PM yesterday, the metal scaffolding and wood planking gave way on a crane at a TF Cornerstone luxury rental site in Long Island City, Queens. The crane collapse comes after another high profile collapse at One57 during Hurricane Sandy in late October. With 7 people injured, this crane collapse puts New York Crane and Equipment Corp. in hot water. Owner James Lomma was tried and acquitted of manslaughter charges in conjunction with a crane collapse in 2008.