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ChiBeCa Is "On Fire" Right Now
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Christopher Robbins
Published Mar 24, 2016
Modified Mar 24, 2016
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Christopher Robbins
Published Mar 24, 2016
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If you need a nice bright no-fee apartment you should consider looking in ChiBeCa. I am a licensed real broker and yes this is a real neighborhood—don’t trust me? Fine don’t trust me trust this real newspaper story from a newspaper in ChiBeCa.
“The Rise of ChiBeCa” see? Why would paper lie?
That area of northeast Tribeca, which folks occasionally call ChiBeCa (referring to an overlap of Chinatown and Tribeca), is on fire.
Lucky for you the renter this is one of those hidden fires, burning so deep that no one else can see but you and me, your broker. Also the people who see this ChiBeCa paper. The important thing is that the fire is still small, small and hot and still full of deals and steals.
Right now though ChiBeCa is still gritty/charming. There is a hotel conversions at 396 Broadway and even 88 Walker, so soon your parents will have a place to sleep when they visit you in your ChiBeCa loft!
A Todd Merrill furniture gallery is opening up on 80 Lafayette (the heart of ChiBeCa) and you can text Todd and ask him because I got him his first ChiBeCa loft (he lives in SoLoSide now).
Basically this place has everything you need—dappled with sun, steps from excitement, air conditioner-ready, separate bathroom, and best of all no-fee (maybe there's low fee I need to run $300 credit check first).
Look you can either sign right now or someone else is going to sign today okay? New York is crazy like that but everyone does it okay?
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the place you were looking for is already rented but I got some other cool places for you to see
Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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