Apartment Choice

Some say the East Village is dead, Manhattan has been murdered, and New York City has lost its soul. Some say that if you stand in the right place and squint hard enough, it can almost seem like the old city is still alive. Jeremiah Moss likes to think of the city as a crime scene, which he is investigating for clues, searching for the cause of death. In his new book, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul , Moss sets out to chronicle what, exactly, has gone wrong with New York, where greed, hypergentrification, and government policies have conspired to kill off the unique character of dozens of neighborhoods. “I want it to be a body of evidence—this happened, this happened, this happened. When you lay it all out like that, it’s undeniable,” says Moss during a recent walk around the East Village. “It is not a natural change. It’s very deliberate, it’s very planned. It’s from policies, and the policies have values behind them, and the values are very clear. They favor the ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC)- A proposed five story mixed use building will not be going on the corner of River Drive and Mound Streets. The original plan was to have 48 apartments on top of mixed use retail on the first floor. The problem? that five story building is two stories higher than the allowed three stories in The East Village due to Davenport City Code . Thursday Afternoon, the Davenport Zoning Board of Adjustments heard the request from developer Gregg Ontiveros and ultimately voted against the property. Ontiveros says the property must be five stories, instead of three, so he can have a reasonable return on investment. Due to the unstable soil conditions , contractors say the foundation will cost the same for both three and five stories. City staff is required to vote yes or no using 8 different characteristics. The city says the two findings the building fails to meet is that the developer doesn't show that a five story buildi...

Quizzes Lists Topics Save The River Terrace Apartments is an apartment building located at 7700 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1] River Terrace Apartments was one of the first two garden apartment complexes built in Michigan which used loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration , the other being Hillcrest Village in East Lansing. [2] History By the late 19th century , the corridor along East Jefferson Avenue had become a prestigious residential neighborhood . As the automobile age dawned in the twentieth century and Detroit's population boomed, large upscale apartment buildings were constructed along the Avenue. However, this boom in apartment construction collapsed at the start of the Great Depression. However, in 1939, Wesson Seyburn, along with Leonard P. Reaume, of the property management firm of Holden & Reaume, applied for a building permit to construct this apart...