Lovely starter or downsizer -- cute and walkable!
This charming home in the Brookdale section of Bloomfield is an ideal starter home, or could be perfect for someone looking to downsize. Two bedrooms plus an office (or nursery), beautiful built-in cabinets (in one of the bedrooms, which was once used as a sewing room), newly renovated [...]
At the risk of sounding like a 14-year-old, OMG! Joe Walsh is playing at the high school this weekend!
I can't even say I am a huge Eagles fan, but still: OMG!
OMG because he's playing in the high school auditorium, a lovely but relatively small theater space, especially for Joe Walsh.
And OMG because, as a former Montclair High School [...]
I just came upon one of those cute 2-minute videos where a narrator explains some broad concept while a high-speed hand renders an animated line drawing to illustrate the point - in this particular case, the point being:
We All Need To Walk More!
The walking information should come as no surprise to anyone - the health benefits of walking [...]
According to a blog post on Inman.com this past spring, these six things that have been shown to increase home value:
Living Near Parks, Golf Courses and Open Spaces Living Near a Wal-Mart Walkability (!!!) Additional Dwelling Spaces Living Near a Professional Sports Arena Lots of Mature [...]
Saturdays are busy days for me, so sometimes I just plan to stop by for a pickle. The pickle vendor sells pickles on a stick (the half-sours are legend!) and it just feels good to walk through the market and see everyone [...]
I often tell clients how living in a walkable suburb just feels better, but have never given much thought to quantifying it. However, others apparently have! There's an article in the New Yorker ("How Trees Calm Us Down") that talks not only about how people feel healthier the more trees are around, but also goes on to say that the benefits [...]
The day Jerry Seinfeld was in town to shoot his web show with Montclair's Stephen Colbert, it was big news. I read about it at NJ.com and I think it was also mentioned on the Montclair Watercooler, our popular local online message board where people discuss everything from dog parks to parking decks.
If you're not familiar with Seinfeld's often delightful web series, [...]
Soon after starting a family, we moved into our first house in Montclair, which was across the street from a park. And although the playground was in need of a facelift back then, the park had a paved path, a climbing tree, a baseball diamond, a big pond, a fountain and a few weeping bushes that kids could tuck themselves into for [...]
It needs to be said: we all had a very long winter. Even as recently as last week, I was tempted to turn my heat back on.
But now, everyone seems energized by the warm weather, especially since it's been such a long time coming. Since moving here, spring feels even more magical to me. Early on, when barely anything was in bloom, I'd walk [...]
