New York, Little Italy Suite B

This New York short term rental is perfect for any stay in New York. The Little Italy Suite B is a beautiful, one bedroom, 2 room apartment that sleeps up to 4 people in the most dynamic part of Manhattan – the East Village – the best place to eat out, see live entertainment, enjoy numerous pubs, cafes and restaurants, see local attractions and enjoy the real New York. The apartment is comfortable and modern with beautiful renovation.

The Little Italy Suite B and the other apartments managed by our company are the only environmentally-friendly serviced apartments in New York. We are trying to have as little impact on environment as possible – the apartment is not perfect yet but it is getting there. We are using only eco-friendly cleaning supplies and recycled materials for all the paper and glass that we use in the apartment. We have signed a special contract with the electric company to ensure that we use only electricity generated by wind and water – it costs a little more but we think it is worth it! We also try to use as much recyclable materials as possible. Nowadays everyone has to be thinking about the impact on our planet, and it’s the little things like this that start to make a difference. Please, read our tips on becoming a “green” traveler!!!

The apartment has a beautiful bedroom with queen size bed. The living room has a pull out sofa bed that can sleep up to 2 people as well as cable TV with International channels. The apartment also comes with free high speed Internet access and free International calls to International landlines so you can keep in touch with your family and friends back home. The kitchen is just the right size and has a stove, pots and pans, and a big refrigerator. You have everything at your disposal to cook your own meals. Kitchen also has a table with chairs. Considering the apartment location and the amenities, the apartment is one of the best apartments in our database in terms of value for money. We hope to see you in New York!

Summary:

• Air conditioner
• Cable TV
• Coffee maker
• Free local phone service

• Free Unlimited International calls
• Fully equipped kitchen
• Hair dryer
• Iron

• Jacuzzi
• Microwave
• Non-smoking
• Wireless Internet

East Village
The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City which lies east of Greenwich Village, south of Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town, and north of the Lower East Side. Within the East Village are several smaller neighborhoods, including Alphabet City and The Bowery. The area was once generally considered to be part of the Lower East Side, but began to develop its own identity and culture in the 1960s, when many artists, musicians, students and hippies began to move into the area, attracted by cheap rents and the base of Beatniks that had lived there since the 1950s. The neighborhood has become a center of the counterculture in New York, and is known as the birthplace and historical home of many artistic movements, including punk rock and the Nuyorican literary movement. It has also been the site of protests and riots. The East Village is still known for its diverse community, vibrant nightlife and artistic sensibility, although in recent decades gentrification has changed the character of the neighborhood somewhat.

Apartment surroundings
The Little Italy Suite B apartment is located on a quiet block right in the middle the eastern side of Greenwich Village, just couple blocks from famous St Marks place – one of New York’s most dynamic neighbourhoods with a huge number of cafes, restaurants and bars. Greenwich Village has from its start been home to New York’s artistic community. Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and many other musicians, poets and artists got their start here. In the 1950’s the Village was home to the Beat Poetry Movement, in the 1960’s the Folk and Rock scene including NY’s Hippie scene, in the 1970’s and 1980’s the NYC punk and hardcore movements. CBGBs, the nightclub considered to be the birthplace of punk rock, was located in the neighborhood, as was the early punk standby A7. No Wave and New York hardcore also emerged in the area\'s clubs. Among the many important bands and singers who got their start at these clubs and other venues in downtown Manhattan were Patti Smith, Arto Lindsay, the Ramones, Blondie, Madonna, Talking Heads, Television, the Plasmatics, Glenn Danzig, Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, Anthrax, and The Strokes.

The apartment is located around the corner from beautiful Williamsburg Bridge which you can take to walk over to Brooklyn. As you walk up on Avenue A you will also see beautiful Tompkins Square Park – the heart of the East Village. The park was closed and refurbished in the early 1990s and today, with its playgrounds and basketball courts, handball courts and built-in outdoor chess tables, the park attracts young families, students and seniors as well as tourists from all over the globe. There is a popular free outdoor French film festival which shows critically acclaimed French films each Friday at sunset in city parks including Tompkins during June and July. If you come with your children you will also enjoy the playgrounds - the main playground, closest to Avenue A, features many unique jungle gyms, including rock climbing features. The water fountain spurts out unpredictably, in the summer time. There is a large sandbox, swing sets, and benches. There are two smaller playgrounds in the section of the park near 7th Street and Avenue B. There is another beautiful playground even closer – ABC playground on the corner of Essex Street and E Houston Avenue.

The East Houston Street is full of places to eat and to visit. If you want to have a great gelato (in amazing variety of flavors) the great place to visit will be “Il Laboratorio del Gelato” on the corner of E Houston and Ludlow streets. Right across the street from it is famous in New York “Katz Delikatessen” – great place for breakfast or lunch. The funny thing about it is that you take a ticket as you enter and you have to show it when you leave and pay accordingly – even if you bought nothing, don’t lose that ticket! Other places to eat on East Houston Street include Baskin Robbins, Red Mango yoghurt and smoothies, McDonald’s, Starbucks, several Indian restaurants, Pizza, Philly cheese steak, Turkish kebab house, “One on One” traditional fish and chips restaurant, Lea crepes and paninis, ”Sugar” café open for breakfast all day, Pala Pizza Romana (beautiful restaurant serving not only pizza), Vegan Tiengarden Restaurant – and that’s just around the block of your apartment! There is also plenty of night life in the area (but not close enough, so it doesn’t disturb you at night), like Nice Guy Eddie’s and Mercury Lounge at the corner of E Houston Street and Essex Street, or Epstein Bar on the corner of Stanton and Allen Streets, Goodfellas Pizza and Bar and Lucky Jack’s bar on the corner of Orchard and Rivington Streets. You also got rock music hall called “Rockwood Music Hall” on Allen Street between E Houston Avenue and Stanton Street. It features concerts of up and coming musicians as well as famous ones. Most of the performances are free and the place is very dynamic and usually busy. On the corner of Rivington Street between Orchard and Ludlow one will find a small café called “TeaNY” – this place is owned by famous DJ and singer Moby.

You will find other interesting places to eat if you go north up to East 6-14th Streets, like on E 6th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A - Organic Vegetarian restaurant “Caravan of Dreams”, “Bnk Mi Zon” Vietnamese Restaurant, bicycle rentals (so you can rent a bike and have your own tour around New York, Manhattan island is actually only 31 miles if you go around it!). You also have an old record store (a heaven for someone who is looking for an original vinyl record from a favourite artist). Walking down from 14th street and 1st Avenue you will spot a lot of pizzerias, sushi restaurants, restaurants with Middle Eastern cuisine, as well as world-known American chain fast-food restaurants – McDonalds, Subway, Dunkin Donuts, Papa John’s. But that’s not all. You have a lot of unique restaurants right around the corner from your apartment – the restaurants where New Yorkers from all over Manhattan come to eat. A few examples would be: “Tallgrass Burger” (organic grass-fed beef burgers) located on 1st Ave and 13th Street; “Neptune” on 12th and 1st and “Odessa” on 7th and Avenue A (both Polish-Ukranian restaurants with a selection of pierogies, blintzes, and borscht); “Sahara” on 12th and 1st (Northern African, Middle Eastern cuisine); “Simone” espresso and wine bar on 8th and 1st; “The Organic Grill” on 1st Avenue between 7th and 8th Streets (first organic restaurant in NYC); Patisserie on 1st and 10th (you will find all possible pastry you could ever dream about); “Mancotta” Peruvian cuisine on the corner of 6th Street and 1st Avenue; “Benny’s Burritos” on the corner on 6th Street and Avenue A (apparently, serving best burritos in the city); Drom bar (for those enjoying the night life); Vegan organic food and bakery on 8th Street between 1st and Avenue A; on the same block “DOB” – French Vietnamese cuisine.

You also have a variety of grocery stores: Supermarket on 14th Street between 1st and Avenue A; Deli & Grocery on 12th Street and 1st Avenue; Lime Tree Market on 9th and 1st; Liquor Store on 1st Avenue between 8th and 9th Street; Food market and Village Farm & Grocer on 7th Street and 1st Avenue; East Village Farm Deli & Grocery on Avenue A between 6th and 7th Street (large store with different types of food as well as a great place to get your morning coffee and bagels with cream cheese); FoodMart on 2nd Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets. Closest market to you for fresh food and gourmet cheese and bread will be Essex Market on Essex Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets. But be sure to bring cash, most of the stalls have a minimum credit card charge of 10 dollars. Just a block away is another place to buy food – Wholesome Foods, it is like a larger deli with big variety, but not as much as the market. If you’re looking for a big mostly organic supermarket you also have one just around the corner – Whole Foods on the corner of Forsyth Street and E Houston Avenue. There are also numerous delis on almost every corner if you need to pick up something small or just something for breakfast, like StopOne on the corner of Stanton and Allen Streets or another one at E Houston and Ludlow Street.

There are many laundromats around the apartment – almost on every block, like the one the one on Allen Street between Stanton and Rivingtorn (drop-off) and another one on teh same street between Rivington and Delancey Streets – in this one you can wash close yourself using quarters or drop it off and have it delivered to you washed and folded when you wish.

If you need to withdraw some cash or exchange foreign currency, you can go the Chase bank on Delancey and Essex Streets or Bank of America on Delancey and Ludlow streets.

There is parking on Essex Street between Stanton and E Houston Avenue. There are also two mobile subscription stores (in case you want to get a local sim-card to make calls): AT&T on Allen Street and T-Mobile on Delancey Street.

There are several subway lines available around the apartment – 4, 5, 6 trains at Bleecker and Lafayette Street go all along the east side of New York (you can take it to world-famous Grand Central Station); B, D, F, M trains at Broadway-Lafayette stop go to Midtown along 6th Ave and to anywhere in Brooklyn, you can take this train to Empire State Building; N, R trains at Prince street go along the middle of Manhattan island and across to the west side. There is also A, C, E trains stop at Spring Street and 6th Ave, these trains can take you up to Penn Station and Times Square.

Addtional information
PLEASE NOTE, that an additional 14.75% will be charged separately for NY hotel and occupancy tax and service and processing fees.