City Living

In Defense of Bedbugs

Ben H. Winters | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Bed Bugs, Urban Living, Ryan Avent, Density, Bedbug Infestation, Insects, Bed Bug Infestation, Bedbugs, Living With Bedbugs, New York City, Cities, City Living, Culture News
Ben H. Winters

Yes, they live in your bed; they suck your blood; and they are almost impossible to kill or get rid of. All of these can be considered negative qualities. But play a bit of compare and contrast, and bedbugs come out looking pretty good.

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Rediscovering the Joys of the Urban Environment

Michael J. Critelli | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Big Cities, Urban Living, Cities, City Living, Healthy Living News
Michael J. Critelli

I love living in cities, the bigger the better, for many reasons. It's time to celebrate urban opportunity, not just danger.

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Candid Moments Captured on Film: Street Photographer Damon Pablo

Emily Farache | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, New York Artists, Leica, Current Exhibitions, New York Art Galleries, Brad Pitt, Artists, Animals, Art Galleries, Damon Pablo, New York City, New York, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Art Gallery, Art Show, Photographers, Arts News, Lovers, Zoo, New York Art Openings, Arts, Elliott Erwitt, Love, Social Order, Confinement, Andre Kertesz, New York Art, NY Street Photos, Street Photography, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Lyins Wier, Polar Bears, City Living, Elderly, Film, Bronx Zoo, Art, Justin Bieber, NY Around Town, Arts News
Emily Farache

I entered the gallery and saw the photographs in the kind of perfect clarity only a personal viewing can provide. Before me were six achingly poignant moments of quotidian life frozen in time and rendered significant.

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You Don't Need To Know Where The Butter Dish Is

Katherine Dunn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: City Country Transition Farm Life, The Balanced Life, City Life, Country Life, Country Living, City Living, Organization, Healthy Living News
Katherine Dunn

Many things collide daily here -- animals, art, business, life, death, family -- but I've learned the trick is to approach this chaos as a treasure hunt.

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New York Living: Making The Most Tiny Spaces

onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Decorating, New York, Brooklyn, Apartments, New York City Apartments, Small Spaces, City Living, New York News

THIS APARTMENT IS REALLY SMALL. If you dance like a dervish, I wouldn't recommend doing it in Jane Rosenbaum's apartment. Just two rooms totaling 3...

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The Great Divide: Swimming Against the Tide in Suburbia

Tina Traster | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Unique, Suburbs, Living in Suburbia, Suburbia, Kids, Suburban, Uniformity, City, Parenting, Tina Traster, Urban, City Living, Healthy Living News
Tina Traster

Not playing by the rules is dicey in suburbia where children are raised in a culture of uniformity. I don't let my daughter go to birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese or eat cafeteria school food or watch television during the week. This makes her different. This makes us different.

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How I Got Across the Great Divide

Tina Traster | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Suburbia, Brooklyn, City Living, Moving, Healthy Living News
Tina Traster

I was once mentally and physically asphyxiated by my long-held beliefs that the sticks were filled with people who stopped going to independent films and who ate dinner before 7.

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Upside-Down Gardening

Planet Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soil, Earthbox, City Life, Vegetables, Green, Garden, Gardening, Pots, Envirnoment, City Living, Green News

The "Earthbox" is a stylish, sustainable way to pot plants in the big, bad city....

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New York's Highline Park Vision: Reclaiming Abandoned Urban Landscape (VIDEO)

Sundance | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, High Line, Friends of the High Line, City Living, Parks, Video, Green News

The High Line park project in New York City is a really cool one -- they're taking an old, unused elevated train track and turning it into a public sp...

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This Year Make The Resolution To Start Your Urban Homestead

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, Food, Farming, Green Living, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Going Green, Urban Homesteading, Growing Plants in the City, City Living, Sustainability, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

It feels good to get your fingernails dirty, even on the 34th floor, and you can finally start walking the walk so many of us have been talking.

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The Bumbershoot Manifesto

Melissa Kirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Everyday Barbarism, Urban Etiquette, Decorum, Sidewalk Etiquette, Melissa Kirsch, Umbrella, Stormy Weather, Etiquette, Sidewalks, Modern Manners, Umbrellas, Society Run Amok, Manners, Urban Living, Umbrella Etiquette, City Living, Style News
Melissa Kirsch

If you must buy an umbrella, never buy a fancy umbrella. They are so easily and commonly lost, stolen and left behind that it never, ever pays to have an umbrella that you can't bear to lose.

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