Kelly Kreth
Contributing writer Kelly Kreth has been a freelance journalist, essayist, and columnist for more than two decades. Her real estate articles have appeared in The Real Deal, Luxury Listings, Our Town, and amNewYork. A long-time New York City renter who loves a good deal, Kreth currently lives in a coveted rent-stabilized apartment in a luxury building on the Upper East Side.
Posts by Kelly Kreth:
In honor of the recent blue moon I figured I’d divert from my usual complaining—though it is what I do best—and use my Hell's Bitchen column to celebrate my neighborhood. I did move here purposely after all.
Your mom may have warned you never to go home with a stranger, but if you do it in New York City, you just may learn something--about real estate, anyway.
At least that’s the premise behind a new show on the SPACES YouTube channel called Take Me Home.
About a month ago I noticed an odd wet spot on my bathroom ceiling. By the following day it had grown by 100 percent and become progressively darker. By the third day it was even bigger.
I contacted my landlord about the melanoma spreading across my bathroom ceilng, but being that he was out on leave getting a hip replaced, his colleague answered. He assured me he’d get a handyman to look at it but that it may take a while.
What is the one thing you would change about your apartment if you could? We asked five New Yorkers, and here's what they said:
As the author of BrickUnderground's Hell's Bitchen column and someone who's lived in some pretty quirky NYC apartments myself, I was intrigued to come across "Offbeat Spaces," a webseries on YouTube's SPACEStv channel which shows off some wild and totally wacky living spaces.
