New York Habitat Blog

In concert with our full length blog, New York Habitat has decided to publish a microblog on Twitter to provide the fastest and most up-to-date information for clients and apartment owners. Not only will you find the latest news and tips on our Twitter feed, but you will find special limited time discounts on apartments in New York, Paris and London plus villas in the South of France.

Follow us at www.twitter.com/newyorkhabitat or Twitter user newyorkhabitat.

• What’s new on the New York Habitat Travel and Real Estate blog (Find out the latest news on neighborhoods, events, apartment renting tips and more).

• Apartment discounts (Look for limited time discounts on selected apartments and vacation rentals on a regular basis, make sure to follow our Twitter feed because discounts can last from just a few hours up to 1 week and will only be show on Twitter).

• Market news (We will comment on the latest market news as it comes up. Feel free to share your thoughts by sending us a direct message with your thoughts or tweet your response via your account).

New York Habitat hopes to utilize Twitter to provide quick updates and the latest information for people who are interested in news about us and our apartment and vacation rentals in New York, Paris, London and the South of France.

You can also follow our Twitter feeds in other languages with the following user names:

• French: nyhabitatfr or  www.twitter.com/nyhabitatfr
• Italian: nyhabitatita or www.twitter.com/nyhabitatita
• German: nyhabitatde or www.twitter.com/nyhabitatde
• Spanish: nyhabitates or www.twitter.com/nyhabitates

Let us know what you think of our Twitter feed and give us suggestions of what you might like to see in future Twitter posts in the comments section below or by sending us a direct message on Twitter.

Have you been looking for apartment ratings and reviews about New York Habitat apartments, or do you want to post a rating or review about your experiences with us? Today we will share with you some popular travel rating and review sites where New York Habitat has been reviewed regularly.

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Insider Pages

Insider Pages: Insider Pages is a site, which reviews businesses city by city. They include everything from review of spas, to restaurants critiques to ratings of vacation rental agencies. Several of our clients and owners have taken the time to share their experiences on Insider Pages and the reviews have been good! Here are a few of our favorite headlines:

• ***** New York Habitat, The Best of The Best
• ***** Never stay in a hotel again . . .
• ***** Perfect Agency!

Follow the link to the New York Habitat Insider Pages reviews to read all of the feedback.

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Amazon.com

Amazon.com: The Internet’s version of a department store, Amazon.com sells a little bit of anything. For products that Amazon does not offer they have created ratings pages to help find the best products and services. Once again this has been a popular forum to express reviews of New York Habitat’s apartments and our service. Some top headlines includes:

• ***** New York Habitat: Great place to list an furnished apartment
• **** Great place in Paris!
• ***** Great service

To read all of the comments visit Amazon.com Customer Reviews of New York Habitat.

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Epinions

Epinions.com: One of the oldest feedback sites Epinions has been around since before many people even had e-mail addresses. This site is designed to encourage people to review products and services by offering incentives for quality reviews. This has been another popular place for clients and owners to rate us. Some feedback includes:

• ***** Simply amazing service!
• **** No surprise in the apartment and this is a sign of reliability.
• ***** The ‘Right Choice’ for getting the ‘Right Service’

Click to read all of the Epinions reviews about New York Habitat.

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All of these types of forums can be helpful in gaining more information about products and services from the internet. We invite you to comment below on other websites that you use to express your feedback about New York Habitat’s apartments and service. We look forward to reading your ratings and reviews.

New York Habitat and especially the blog team
would like to wish you, your family and friends
a happy and healthy holidays and new year.

New York Habitat Greetings

Our rental agents in New York, Paris, London and the South of France wish you the best.

Please check back in the new year for more great posts about everything New York Habitat related.

Don’t forget, the New York and Paris Furnished Apartment Market Reports will be published shortly after the new year.

Photograph provided by francois-roux-photography.com

After years of experience in the New York furnished apartment rental market, New York Habitat has decided to broaden our scope to meet the needs of longer term clients who are looking for unfurnished apartment rentals. To make this new service a success, we have carefully selected a team of real estate agents who have experience in both furnished and unfurnished apartment rentals.

New York Unfurnished Apartment: 1 bedroom loft rental in Long Island City, Queens (NY-12468

Much preparation has gone into creating this department, including creation of a new section of the New York Habitat website, analysis of clients and recruitment of owners. We will share a bit of the process in the blog today as well as direct you to the newly created sections of our website.

Apartment Rental Customers:

For the unfurnished apartment rental service, New York Habitat has decided to continue to build on its core competencies while expanding to this new type of rental. The core competencies that the company has built itself on include:

• Personal service by a dedicated team of agents
• Multi-lingual agents able to help clients from around the world
• Fully inspected listings
• Up-to-date technology
• Extensive local market knowledge

By building on these competencies, we believe that we will be able to expand our client base to include repeat clients and new clients that learn about New York Habitat via word of mouth and extensive marketing of this new service.

Apartment Owners:

With over 12,000 apartments listed in New York from 1989 to today, we have a large base of owners to work with. Several of our owners have been pleased to learn that we are now offering unfurnished apartment rentals and have added their unfurnished offerings to our roster. Furthermore, the team has canvassed extensively to find new opportunities to offer in New York City.

New York Habitat Website:

To aid in finding the perfect unfurnished apartment rental we have created several sections on our website including:

New York Unfurnished Apartment Rental: 1 Bedroom Rental in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NY-12540)

The Unfurnished Apartment Rentals Page

The New York Accommodations Price Range Table

The New York Apartment Services Page

If you are interested in listing your apartment or if you are looking to rent an unfurnished apartment, feel free to contact our team at (212) 255-8018 or rent@nyhabitat.com. 

In honor of Thanksgiving the entire New York Habitat team would like to wish you and your family a happy Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York

Check back on Friday for an all new blog post and in the mean time check out some of the most commented upon articles and add you comments.

• Paris Furnished Apartment Market Report - 1st Half 2007
• Thanksgiving Apartment rentals in New York
• Upper East Side Accommodations in New York City

And remember to check out our selection of:

• New York Apartments
• Paris Apartments
• South of France Apartments and Villas
• London Apartments

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Winston Churchill

Based on reader suggestion and feedback, New York Habitat has recently become involved with the World Community Grid research project. Our desire to use the technology of our offices combined with the range of research the project provides has made the union a perfect fit.

New York Habitat Aids in the Advancement of Cancer Research describes our similar participation in a project run by Grid.org. Like Grid.org, the World Community Grid (powered by IBM) uses distributing computing to make advancements in the area of medical research. However, whereas Grid.org focused on cancer research, the World Community Grid has joined forces with several research projects concerning different important issues.

Distributing computing allows for volunteers all over the world to donate computer time. Volunteers download software that enables the World Community Grid and like projects to complete virtual preliminary research on a range of topics. 

At the moment, World Community Grid is forwarding the research for muscular dystrophy, genome comparisons, proteome folding, and AIDS.

At this point in our involvement, New York Habitat has been able to donate over a year and a half of computer processor time. As a premiere resource for vacation accommodations in London, Paris, the South of France, and New York, we are proud that the computers in our offices can be put to such important use.

For more information on the World Community Grid and how to donate your own processor hours, visit http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/.

Help make a difference.

In 2001, New York Habitat made the decision to utilize the resources necessary to operate a multi-city apartment rental service to assist a greater cause. New York Habitat & Cancer Research: Philanthropy meets Biology! discusses those efforts to aid in a project geared towards cancer research. 

The project, which involved the combined work of Oxford University, The National Foundation for Cancer Research, and United Devices, aimed to make advancements in the discovery of a cancer pharmaceutical through the use of grid computing.

While several supercomputers could have completed the preliminary research necessary to begin laboratory work on a cancer pharmaceutical, the task would have literally taken a lifetime. However, with the combined energy of millions of individual computers all over the world, the project can be completed in years.

As of April 27, 2007, the research finally came to a close. Grid computing, or distributing computing as it is also called, helped to narrow down the number of molecules that will elicit the desired drug-like reaction once united with a given number of researched proteins.

At the time of the program’s conclusion, over 3 million computers were being utilized all over the world, all of which combined to contribute 210 years of computer time daily. Out of this abundant amount of computer resources, New York Habitat is ranked 180th of overall contributed processor-time. Through the course of the project, we were able to provide 78 years of valuable research!

“We are very proud of our contribution to this project,” said Francois Roux, vice president of New York Habitat. “To be able to use our technology to help with cancer research was gratifying for us as a company and for me personally. I am really looking forward to a new project.”

Now that the project has reached its conclusion, New York Habitat is looking for another worthwhile endeavor in which to participate. We strongly encourage you to send information concerning any organizations, projects, and groups that wish to aid humanity for the better.