New York City Luxury Rental Blog

There's no sense in trying to hide it: we at Luxury Rentals Manhattan love the Garment District's Emerald Green. The LEED-certified green rental building is not only one of the more intriguing new green rental listings in Manhattan, but Emerald Green's location -- 320 West 38th Street, if you're curious -- in a neighborhood otherwise fairly short on luxury rental listings (green or otherwise) makes it an especially intriguing development. More intriguing is the news that Glenwood, the heavy-hitter Manhattan real estate developers behind Emerald Green, are planning an Emerald Green sequel in the same neighborhood, at 330 West 39th Street. Even if Emerald Green weren't such a favorite of ours here at Luxury Rentals Manhattan, this would be an interesting development.

When Christopher Albanese speaks, the Luxury Rentals Manhattan blog listens. This is because Albanese's real estate development company, The Albanese Organization, has developed some truly extraordinary green rental buildings in Battery Park City: the Solaire and Verdesian. Two of the greenest green apartment listings in Manhattan, the Solaire and Verdesian were trend-setters in the burgeoning market for green rental apartments in Manhattan, and happen to be pretty beautiful buildings beside. Given your blogger's admitted soft spot for green apartment buildings, the Solaire and Verdesian are sentimental favorites of a sort, but the apartments for rent at the Solaire and Verdesian are also among the most popular rental listings here at Luxury Rentals Manhattan, so the favoritism isn't entirely sentiment-driven.

Here at Luxury Rentals Manhattan, it's our job to help NYC dwellers find the right rental apartment in the right Manhattan neighborhood. Once said NYC dwellers have found said rental apartments, Luxury Rentals Manhattan exits stage left. All good.

But while we won't tell you what to do with your Manhattan rental apartment once you've finished your apartment search, we would like to make an exception to our usual rule to suggest, here, that you use your refrigerator for keeping foodstuffs cold. This doesn't seem like a controversial bit of advice, but an entertaining article by Alexis Swerdloff in the New York Post suggests that a new class of Manhattan "kitchenistas" have been forced to turn their refrigerators into additional closet space. This might be a good time to remind you that finding the right rental apartment in Manhattan is easier if you work with the right real estate agents, and that finding the wrong rental apartment in Manhattan could lead to... well, a flagrant misuse of your refrigerator.

Okay, it's not exactly hard news. But this brief piece from the New York Post on the first Manhattan rental apartments of such celebrities as SNL's Andy Samberg and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is pretty enjoyable. It's also pretty true to life for most NYC dwellers, most of whom have at least one story to tell about a rough-and-ready New York City rental apartment in their history.

Well, this is an interesting one. While many luxury rentals in Manhattan already allow renters to pay their rent online -- all of the rental buildings from Related Properties, such as The Sagamore and The Sierra, allow renters to pay online -- a new company named Williampaid.com is offering NYC dwellers some pretty impressive incentives for paying rent online.