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Luxury Furnished Rentals

Empire Residential Realty is your first choice for Luxury furnished rentals, as well as corporate rentals, temporary apartments or vacation rentals in New York and Manhattan. We offer High end, Elite Manhattan apartment rentals and New York City apartments.

If you have been looking for a New York and Manhattan Luxury apartment rentals then we can help you find the best one in NYC, Elite Furnished apartments that are located in prime areas in New York and Manhattan. You will definitely feel spoiled by all these luxurious amenities that this high end apartments and buildings can offer.  High end, Luxury furnished rentals have modern, fully equipped fitness centers, private party rooms. For convenience there are on-premise garages with security guards.

We have a huge database comprised with the Luxury Furnished Rentals in New York and Manhattan, from there you can simply choose the one that suits your requirements and needs. To find out more details and for any further questions our experts are always here to answer your questions and assist you with your search if you are looking New York and Manhattan Luxury apartment rentals for long term or short term lease or for a purchase.

Here is the list of major areas of Manhattan where we have our luxury, furnished or unfurnished apartments:

Upper West Side

Developed around the turn of the century the Upper West Side is now one of the hottest areas in the city.

With its proximity to Lincoln Center and other performing arts venues, it is also a neighborhood of actors, writers, and musicians. For the athletic-minded, the Upper West Side is a great place to work up a sweat. Whether it’s rock climbing in one of the areas ultra modern gyms, roller blading in Central Park or a game of baseball in Riverside Park, the Upper West Side will surely keep you active.

Upper East Side

Manhattan’s gold coast, as it is sometimes called, is a mostly residential part of Manhattan with an abundance of luxury apartment buildings, townhouses, private schools, legendary restaurants and shopping on Madison Avenue and grand apartments lining Park Avenue and fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park.

While Fifth and Park Avenue offer spacious and luxurious residential dwellings, Madison Avenue gives us the best in commercial retailing; housing the most prestigious and international boutiques. With the most famous museums contained within, this neighborhood is packed with culture, class and refinement. Points of interest include shopping on Madison Avenue and Third Avenue Bloomingdale’s, the Guggenheim Museum, Hunter College and Central Park.

Midtown East

Known for its exclusive shopping along Fifth Avenue and its luxurious apartments along Park Avenue, the Midtown East area is certainly for those with a taste for the finer things. Turtle Bay is the site of the United Nations and some of New York’s costliest real estate. Beekman Place residents enjoy stately townhouses and elegant apartment buildings that offer river views, many with gardens or terraces. Sutton Place instantly suggests status and affluence to New Yorkers and out-of-towners alike. This quiet enclave is within walking distance to the best Manhattan has to offer in shops, restaurants, theatres and cultural institutions. Points of interest include Rockefeller Center; St. Patrick’s Cathedral, FAO Schwartz, Gucci, Tiffany & Co., Grand Central Station and the United Nations.

Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen

Also known as Hell’s Kitchen and Midtown West, this neighborhood is home to many young professionals attracted to the area because of its proximity to midtown and its reasonably priced rents. Because the area was once supported by breweries, slaughter houses, outdoor markets, neighborhood shops and restaurants have a tradition of offering a wide variety of fresh and exotic food options. Ninth Avenue is one of the city’s great resources of good and inexpensive ethnic restaurants. A great place to catch a bite to eat before going to the theater or a weekend brunch. Points of interest include Carnegie hall, Disney store, Virgin Megastore, Times Square, Theatre District, All-Star Cafe, Planet Hollywood, Jeckyll & Hyde and the Hard Rock Cafe.

Murray Hill

Murray Hill is probably best known to its close proximity to the Empire State Building. Aside from the historical landmark, the area is also a center of business, and the site of many clubs, churches, hi-rise apartment buildings, brownstone mansions and restaurants. Murray Hill is a neighborhood where time has changed old carriage houses into charming homes. The brownstones here are unpretentious turn-of-the-century buildings that are elegant and fashionable. Points of interest include the Empire State Building and Pierpont Morgan Library.

Chelsea

The area, with its diverse building styles, is a patchwork of townhouses, prewar low rises and loft buildings. With its many residential services, convenience to transportation and the development of Chelsea Piers, it has become a much sought after community by many. Old warehouses that were once factories and breweries are being converted into gallery spaces, nightclubs and residential lofts. With the newly paved Hudson River Park and the massive Chelsea Piers Sports and Recreation Complex. For the most part, Chelsea can be considered a mix of family types, great stores, movie theaters, sports enthusiasts, artists and bargain shopping.

Gramercy Park

The area is well known for its large prewar buildings as well as its postwar hi-rises, many with doormen. Scattered throughout are low-rise buildings and brownstones that line side streets. GramercyPark includes many restored homes throughout the neighborhood. Valued for its charming streets and filled with synagogues, churches, schools, shopping and places for outdoor recreation, Gramercy Park is becoming a great place to live.

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village is homey and intimate; a small town within a sprawling metropolis – a town within a town loved by artists, writers, and actors. With its tree-lined streets, all named rather than numbered, it is difficult to remember at times that one is still in New York City. Everything is within walking distance from everything else. Points of interests include Washington Square Park, 8th Street shopping, Astor Place shopping, New York University, and Bleeker Street night life.

Tribeca

TriBeCa was an industrial district that in the last decade has undergone a major revitalization. Many warehouses have been converted to livable residential lofts and new businesses which emerged make the neighborhood much more like a community than an industrial district. Residents like their neighborhood for its vibrancy, as well as for the solitude and harmony achieved by mixed zoning. The streets are lined with shops, art galleries, bars and restaurants.

East Village

For the most part, apartment buildings in the East Village are low-rise and pre-war units, although luxury buildings are starting exist however they are not widespread. Because the area also has a slew of far-out nightclubs, music venues, bars and funky shops, the most number of 24hr kitchens is higher than most in most neighborhoods around the city. Points of interest include Angelika’s Kitchen, Tompkins Square park and shopping on St.Marks Place.

Battery Park City

A relatively new residential and commercial neighborhood. Battery Park City is located at the southern most tip of Manhattan. The residential area includes numerous hi-rise luxury buildings with views of the Statue of Liberty or the Hudson River. In addition, there are several parks and gardens including Battery Park, and the 1.5 mile esplanade along the Hudson River for walking, jogging or picture taking.

Soho

A downtown neighborhood with a vibrant artistic life is Soho (South of Houston Street). Soho is considered to have some of the world’s finest examples of the 19th century prefabricated cast-iron architectural style buildings. Once an abandoned industrial district, Soho is now a haven for artists. Many of the huge warehouse buildings have been transformed into lofty studios. In addition to its architectural allure, Soho also offers great shopping, art gallaries and fine restaurants. Soho has become one of the most sought after neighbourhoods in New York City.

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What Is The Big, Fat Health And Fitness Lie?

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s The Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at http://thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com. In this excerpt, Craig Pepin Donat shares on the experiences that led him to write The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie.

The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Craig Pepin Donat, a certified personal trainer and author of The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie.

Kevin: Good evening, everyone. So Craig, you’ve been in the fitness industry for over 26 years and with that, I imagine comes a bit of wisdom. Why don’t you start with your story and how you’ve gotten to where you are now?

Craig: Sure Kevin. Well, first of all, I started out in the fitness industry as a personal trainer making $3.50 an hour.

Kevin: Wow.

Craig: So I’ve been in it for awhile and I grew through the ranks in the fitness industry to the executive level. I was the president of two of the largest fitness organizations in the United States. I was the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the largest chain of fitness clubs in the world operating in 11 countries. I also successfully owned and operated my own fitness company. I’ve visited 30 countries and evaluated health and fitness trends all over Russia, Asia, Europe. I’ve been to dozens of fitness conventions, purchased millions of dollars worth of equipment, supplements and other health and fitness related products and I’ve also had the ability to train thousands of health and fitness professionals around the world and help them to help other people improve their lives. So this really kind of led me to where I am today, which is to where I just got to the point where I want to do something more and that’s why I wrote my book The Big Fat Healthy Fitness Lie and founded Fit Advocate.com so that I could create a platform to protect and enhance the lives and health and fitness consumers.

Kevin: Now you just mentioned your book, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie which I absolutely love. What is the big fat fitness lie. Let’s just lay it on the table.

Craig: Why mince words? Let’s dig right in. The lie is that there are these billion dollar industries out there getting richer while we get sicker and fatter and with all the so-called solutions available for losing weight and improving our health, we are literally in the worse shape in the history of modern civilization. There’s big profit in sickness and in fatness, and a lot of times people question that and they think, “Oh, well we live in the United States, we’re in great health and we have the best health care system” which is a complete fallacy. Here’s an interesting fact that people should be aware of, we’re approaching some 300 million people in the U.S. and we have every year 200 million diseases that are diagnosed for conditions that could be prevented with simple lifestyle changes.

Kevin: Wow.

Craig: And we spend in the United States, 270 billion dollars on 3.7 billion prescriptions written to, not to cure anything because there’s really very few cures in modern medicine, medicine is meant mostly to mask our symptoms. So taking into our bodies a lot of toxic chemicals and you know there’s so much confusion out there and misinformation about health and fitness. So there’s a huge opportunity, unfortunately, for people to make big money on the lack of knowledge that people have about how to lose weight, improve their health, get in shape and live better. So millions of people are out there paying thousands of dollars that have no chance of helping them achieve their goal and that’s really the big fat lie.

Kevin: And let me just ask you this, you’ve been on the other side, you’ve been a part of the industry that is making a lot of money in the fitness clubs and the organizations and everything. When did you suddenly say, “Hey, you know, maybe I need to educate people about this.”

Craig: Well, first of all I never felt that the club industry was a bad industry.

Kevin: Okay.

Craig: And in my book I still am a big proponent of joining a fitness center for the average person, there are, of course, some caveat of how to get a quality club. I have an article on the ten worst tricks for the fitness industry. So I try to expose the things that I think are bad but there’s also a lot of good too, but what I did notice while I was operating all of these clubs and trying to help people is that I would talk to thousands of consumers, face to face. For a big part of my career, my job was to get out there and help, work with people in the field, club operators, managers, sales people, fitness staff members, personal trainers, to talk to them about how to help people make decisions that are good for them and the guiding principle, of course was always don’t focus on making money, focus on helping people and you will make money as a natural result, as a natural bi-produce of helping people. That’s always been one of my guiding principles, but in speaking with all these consumers, you find that the average person spends thousands and thousands of dollars on products and services that have no chance of helping them. They spend hours and hours of wasted time on information that will never help them improve their health or change their lives. So I got tired, frustrated and really kind of outraged at all of the quick fix solutions that are out there that people jump from one to the other and without really understanding the true cause of why they’re in such poor health. So I wanted to try to educate them on all of the things, the lies the deceptions while also trying to give them simple solutions for how to improve their health, how to lose weight, how to get in shape, how to live better, how to feel better with no tricks and no gimmicks for the rest of their lives. That’s really what the big fat health and fitness lie is all about and that’s really what Fit Advocate website is all about.

Kevin: And you take a different approach in your book as opposed to a lot of the other books that I’ve read about health and fitness and it’s related to addiction. You say addiction feeds this whole lie. What do you mean by this?

Craig: Well, many people live a self-inflicted toxic lifestyle that destroys their health and feeds this lie. So what do I mean by that? Well, the definition of toxic, first of all, is poison and in our society we are surrounded by poisons, in our air, it’s in our water, some of them we can’t avoid and many of them we can, however. A lot of these poisons, they’re not going to kill us today, but instead what they do is they slowly and quietly deteriorate and destroy our health.

There’s two specific types of poisons or toxins that I talk about that create these health problems. The first, of course is chemical exposures. There are thousands of untested chemical combinations in our food supply to improve taste, texture, color or to extend shelf life. There are low calorie,low carb foods laced with toxic sweeteners that has contributed to obesity and diabetes. We’ve been conditioned to believe that sodium fluoride, for example is good for our teeth. Yet it’s a known chemical waste bi-product of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industry. This chemical has been pumped into our water supply and put into our dental hygiene products for years but fluoridation has been flatly rejected by many developed countries because of the dangers and the lack of really any scientific evidence of any health benefit. Beyond that, we have toxic chemicals in our household products, our cleaning products, personal hygiene products. Fruits and vegetables have been treated with herbicides and pesticides. Chickens and cows are fed ground chicken and beef. Then pumped full of antibiotics to stave off disease from the horrific conditions in which they live and where they’re slaughtered. So we have all of those, you know, all of this chemical toxicity. That’s the first concern.

The second is the biggest toxic exposure which is related to stress, and people don’t realize this but as much as 80% of all disease is the result of stress and having had the ability to travel all over the world and visit, you know, I believe I’ve been to over 40 countries now, you find that we in America are the most stressed out country on the planet. We work more than any other activity other than sleep. Just think about our normal lives, we wake up every day and we’re running on empty from morning to night. We’ve got the pressures at work, at home, the challenges sustaining some sort of happy relationship with our significant others. We’ve got the demands of the kids, trying to pay the bills. We have all of the negativity in the news. We’re all trying to live the American dream which is predicated on financial freedom, but the truth is only a fraction of people out there actually ever realize the American dream and the rest of us are simply trying to get by, and, you know, we’re buried in a mountain of debt. All of these things add up to a lot of worry and stress and to cope with this stress, what do we do? We drink, we smoke, we take drugs, we over eat, we eat the wrong foods and we spend hours in front of the television or surfing the internet. All of these activities, unfortunately make us fat, lazy and out of shape, and what happens is this poor health that’s created from this self addictive lifestyle creates, and opens the door for these big fat health and fitness lies. One of them is companies that market, manufacture and market and sale products that have no chance of helping us and then, of course, the worse thing is when we look to synthetic chemical compounds, prescription drugs, as the first line of defense to handle our self inflicted health problems. So we really have a lot of issues that we have to deal with in order to be healthy, but people need to understand the basis of where it starts, the cause.

Kevin: Yes. How does someone take that sort of addiction or quote unquote addictive personality and turn that into fitness success?

Craig: Well the first thing they have to do is identify it.

Kevin: Yes.

Craig: You have to realize it. Here’s, here’s a fact that’s pretty important that people should know about, the number one reason that people give for not exercising regularly is that they don’t have enough time, okay. Yet the average American watches four and a half hours of television a day. So there’s an issue there with priority and people have to understand that time is the most important and the most valuable thing that we have because once it’s gone you can’t get it back. If you want to improve your health, you have to make time to do all of the things that are necessary to improve and enhance your health and your life and it’s not just exercise but it is one of the key components. So they have to first understand the issues and then have the right motivation and set the right priorities to get them to where they need to be.

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