As soon as springtime hits NYC, spring cleaning is on our minds! While you most commonly associate spring cleaning with your apartment, it is also important to relate it to yourself. Take time to personally shed the gloom of winter and ready yourself for the bright spring and summer ahead! We have included some of Glenwood’s tips on how to ready both yourself and your apartment for the spring season. Keep reading to find out how!

Take Care of You!

Find A Way to Center Yourself

• Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all about embracing the present moment. Being mindful of your immediate surroundings, all of the noises, the smells, tastes, and feels is how you allow yourself to be present. Mindfulness does not have to be practiced sitting still, enjoy a nice stroll in Central Park. Listen to the birds, dogs, feel the sun, smell the flowers—this is a great way to be mindful in New York City. Even taking 10 minutes out of your day to practice this will leave you will wonderful results! It helps to allow you to be present more than worrying about the past or present, and will relax your body and mind! Who doesn’t want to try this heading into spring! If you want to learn more about mindfulness there are dozens of books and seminars you can easily find online.

• Meditation

There are numerous types of meditations you can try. Click here to read a brief overview of 7 types of meditations from transcendental meditation to breath awareness meditation there is a type for you to try! Meditation has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, aka reduce stress, reduce anxiety, help with attention and so much more! Russel Simmons is a well-known celebrity who has greatly benefited from the practice of meditation in his life. He has a meditation made easy New York Times Bestseller Success Through Stillness if you are interested click here to learn more about his book. There are great mediation apps on your phone like HeadSpace and even group classes available, just google your neighborhood specifically to find out what’s around you. MNDFL is a great mindful meditation class with locations close to Glenwood’s Upper East Side and Downtown buildings. Check it out if you are interested, they offer classes focusing on different things such as breathing or emotions—you can reserve classes online!

Enjoy A Day At The Spa

Relaxing your body is as important as relaxing your mind, and if you want to indulge in a spa appointment to do so, here are some great recommendations!

• Upper East Side

  • If you live on the Upper East Side, try The Cornelia Spa at The Surry located at 20 E 76^th This spa is located walking distance to Glenwood buildings like The Marlowe, The Pavilion and The Lucerne.

• Midtown

  • If you live or work midtown and are looking for a great spa, check out Spa de La Mer at the Baccarat Hotel at 28 W 53^rd St.  This spa is located close to Glenwood midtown buildings.

• Downtown

  • If you live downtown, try Aire Ancient Baths at 88 Franklin Street. It is a great location with hot and cold water pools, massages onsite and saunas! If you are a downtown Glenwood resident, check Aire out!

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Take Care of Your Apartment

If you love to clean and organize and are looking for some tips for your Glenwood apartment, be sure to catch Maria Kondo’s Netflix series, Tiding Up With Maria Kondo. Maria Kondo, who has been featured on tv shows like The Ellen Show, now has her very own Netflix show. She insists that the only items you keep in your home are ones that “spark joy inside of you!”

Maria Kondo also goes into depth about how to properly fold your clothes to make sure you can see all of your items. Rather than piling shirts on top of one another she folds them into little standing squares and lines them into a drawer.  If Maria Kondo’s tips are something you want to learn more about to make your apartment happy this spring, you can find out more about her Netflix show here.

Do you have tips for decorating your apartment? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and let us know!

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As soon as springtime hits NYC, spring cleaning is on our minds! While you most commonly associate spring cleaning with your apartment, it is also important to relate it to yourself. Take time to personally shed the gloom of winter and ready yourself for the bright spring and summer ahead! We have included some of Glenwood’s tips on how to ready both yourself and your apartment for the spring season. Keep reading to find out how!

Take Care of You!

Find A Way to Center Yourself

• Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all about embracing the present moment. Being mindful of your immediate surroundings, all of the noises, the smells, tastes, and feels is how you allow yourself to be present. Mindfulness does not have to be practiced sitting still, enjoy a nice stroll in Central Park. Listen to the birds, dogs, feel the sun, smell the flowers—this is a great way to be mindful in New York City. Even taking 10 minutes out of your day to practice this will leave you will wonderful results! It helps to allow you to be present more than worrying about the past or present, and will relax your body and mind! Who doesn’t want to try this heading into spring! If you want to learn more about mindfulness there are dozens of books and seminars you can easily find online.

• Meditation

There are numerous types of meditations you can try. Click here to read a brief overview of 7 types of meditations from transcendental meditation to breath awareness meditation there is a type for you to try! Meditation has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, aka reduce stress, reduce anxiety, help with attention and so much more! Russel Simmons is a well-known celebrity who has greatly benefited from the practice of meditation in his life. He has a meditation made easy New York Times Bestseller Success Through Stillness if you are interested click here to learn more about his book. There are great mediation apps on your phone like HeadSpace and even group classes available, just google your neighborhood specifically to find out what’s around you. MNDFL is a great mindful meditation class with locations close to Glenwood’s Upper East Side and Downtown buildings. Check it out if you are interested, they offer classes focusing on different things such as breathing or emotions—you can reserve classes online!

Enjoy A Day At The Spa

Relaxing your body is as important as relaxing your mind, and if you want to indulge in a spa appointment to do so, here are some great recommendations!

• Upper East Side

  • If you live on the Upper East Side, try The Cornelia Spa at The Surry located at 20 E 76^th This spa is located walking distance to Glenwood buildings like The Marlowe, The Pavilion and The Lucerne.

• Midtown

  • If you live or work midtown and are looking for a great spa, check out Spa de La Mer at the Baccarat Hotel at 28 W 53^rd St.  This spa is located close to Glenwood midtown buildings.

• Downtown

  • If you live downtown, try Aire Ancient Baths at 88 Franklin Street. It is a great location with hot and cold water pools, massages onsite and saunas! If you are a downtown Glenwood resident, check Aire out!

Read more

Luxury Living at Tribeca Bridge Tower

Schedule a tour today of Tribeca Bridge Tower's luxury Downtown Manhattan apartments.

Take Care of Your Apartment

If you love to clean and organize and are looking for some tips for your Glenwood apartment, be sure to catch Maria Kondo’s Netflix series, Tiding Up With Maria Kondo. Maria Kondo, who has been featured on tv shows like The Ellen Show, now has her very own Netflix show. She insists that the only items you keep in your home are ones that “spark joy inside of you!”

Maria Kondo also goes into depth about how to properly fold your clothes to make sure you can see all of your items. Rather than piling shirts on top of one another she folds them into little standing squares and lines them into a drawer.  If Maria Kondo’s tips are something you want to learn more about to make your apartment happy this spring, you can find out more about her Netflix show here.

Do you have tips for decorating your apartment? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and let us know!

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As soon as springtime hits NYC, spring cleaning is on our minds! While you most commonly associate spring cleaning with your apartment, it is also important to relate it to yourself. Take time to personally shed the gloom of winter and ready yourself for the bright spring and summer ahead! We have included some of Glenwood’s tips on how to ready both yourself and your apartment for the spring season. Keep reading to find out how!

Take Care of You!

Find A Way to Center Yourself

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all about embracing the present moment. Being mindful of your immediate surroundings, all of the noises, the smells, tastes, and feels is how you allow yourself to be present. Mindfulness does not have to be practiced sitting still, enjoy a nice stroll in Central Park. Listen to the birds, dogs, feel the sun, smell the flowers—this is a great way to be mindful in New York City. Even taking 10 minutes out of your day to practice this will leave you will wonderful results! It helps to allow you to be present more than worrying about the past or present, and will relax your body and mind! Who doesn’t want to try this heading into spring! If you want to learn more about mindfulness there are dozens of books and seminars you can easily find online.

• Meditation

There are numerous types of meditations you can try. Click here to read a brief overview of 7 types of meditations from transcendental meditation to breath awareness meditation there is a type for you to try! Meditation has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, aka reduce stress, reduce anxiety, help with attention and so much more! Russel Simmons is a well-known celebrity who has greatly benefited from the practice of meditation in his life. He has a meditation made easy New York Times Bestseller Success Through Stillness if you are interested click here to learn more about his book.

Bring Your Spa Home

Relaxing your body is as important as relaxing your mind, and if you want to indulge in an at home spa day read below.

Elle.com has great face mask recipes that you can make at home:

For a calming mask:

• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1 teaspoon coconut oil
• ¼ ripe avocado
• 2 drops of lavender oil

For a hydrating mask:

• 1/2 Avocado
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• A handful of oats or oat bran

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Take Care of Your Apartment

If you love to clean and organize and are looking for some tips for your Glenwood apartment, be sure to catch Maria Kondo’s Netflix series,  Tiding Up With Maria Kondo. Maria Kondo is a Japanese organizing guru with four bestselling books, appearances on the Ellen show and her own Netflix show. In her Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up book, she coins The KonMari Method, which is removing items from your home that do not spark joy in you. You simply touch an item and if it brings you joy, you keep it, if it does not you donate or throw it out. She uses this method will all items in her house from clothing, to decorative items, to those childhood school projects parents keep around.

Maria Kondo also goes into depth about how to properly fold your clothes to make sure you can see all of your items. Rather than piling shirts on top of one another she folds them into little standing squares and lines them into a drawer. If Maria Kondo’s tips are something you want to learn more about to make your apartment happy this spring, you can find out more about her Netflix show here or her books here.

Do you have tips for decorating your apartment? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and let us know!

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While we have entered yet another month of social distancing, you may be wondering what are the new best shows, books, or things to do at home to keep us entertained through the next few weeks. Whether your escape from slight cabin fever is cooking, reading, or a great movie, we have some suggestions for you! Keep reading to find out more.

Movement

Movement will definitely help release excess up energy you have while you haven’t been able to go to your favorite spinning or Barry’s boot camp class! A great idea that many can do is go for a long walk. If you have an iPhone, the health app will track your steps. Try to aim for 10,000 steps a day. You can go for a morning walk and an afternoon walk, which can add structure  and routine to your day. If you need some adult time from your kids at home, this is a great way to get out of the house for an hour.

There are many free exercise classes available online to choose from, but I have been gravitating towards the Peloton app’s yoga and meditating classes. Again, looking for any sort of routine right now, I usually will do a 20 minute mat workout, followed by light stretching and a 10 meditation either on the Peloton app or the Calm app.

Read

Some great new books are:

• Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
• The Glass Hotel
• Code Name Helene
• All Adults Here
• The Boy From The Woods
• The Ballads of Song Birds and Snakes (Hunger Games 0)
• Beach Read
• The Guest List

Cooking

A great dinner option to use immune boosting ingredients (and really any veggies left over in your fridge) is curry!  I have made curry a few ways now and this one is my favorite recipe from a Vegan-ish food instagram account I follow called VeganishVal. But remember, you can throw in or substitute any veggies or protein options you have at home!

Ingredients -(feeds 3)

1. purple onions
2. red bell peppers
3. zucchini
4. coconut oil
5. firm tofu (or chicken)
6. coconut milk
7. 2 tsp curry powder
8. 1 tsp turmeric
9. 1 tsp ginger powder
10. dash of cinnamon
11. 1 tsp garlic powder
12. 1 tsp chili powder
13. pink salt
14. pepper
15. 1/2 lime
16. rice of choice
17. spinach

Directions:

• sauté purple onions, red bell peppers, and zucchini in a pan lined with coconut oil
• grill tofu in a touch of sesame oil on another pan
• cook rice
• once veggies are soft, add in 1/2 cup of coconut milk
• 2 tsp curry powder, 1 tsp tumeric, 1 tsp ginger powder, dash of cinnamon, 1 tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp chili powder, pinch of salt and pepper, 1/2 lime juice
• cover and cook veggies for 5-7 min and then add another 1/2 cup of coconut milk
• add 2 handfuls of spinach, cover and cook for 5 more min
• add the tofu
• pour over rice

If you are interested in specific immune boosting foods, check out our previous blog post.

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Watching

Netflix is how I have gotten through many nights during these past few months! Some favorite shows have been:

TV Shows

• Workin’s Moms- a well written, 30 minute hysterical comedy about being a parent. It is equally relatable for moms and dad!
• Dead To Me season 2! If you have not watched this show, it is worth it!
• Fauda – great action series

Movies

• Becoming- Michelle Obama’s Netflix documentary is finally here!
• Artic Dogs – a cute movie for the kids that the whole family will enjoy!
• Extraction- a great action movie, featuring Chris Hemsworth as he saves a kidnapped boy

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