There's a swimming pool, an automated coffee machine that will be familiar to viewers of seventies cop shows, and lots of patterned carpeting.
But as part of a national rush to capitalize on rising rents, developers there are building thousands of apartments like those south of downtown at Camden City Centre, where 268 units will open early next year in a complex that also has two swimming pools, billiards tables, a coffee bar and a fitness center.
Lined up along a west side motel strip, the eight-acre property includes 83 units, an outdoor pool and whirlpool, and a coffee shop.
The wood has quietly appeared in New York, too: in a rooftop farm in Queens, at a public pool in Brooklyn, in a coffee bar in Greenwich Village.
Whether you're stretched out by the pool or nestled in a coffee shop, clutching a hardcover, paperback or e-book, we've got more than enough titles to keep you reading through Labor Day.
Recently, a couple of co-workers and I pooled our coffee resources — one brought a coffee maker, I brought mugs, and the third has been bringing the coffee.
To capitalize on the expected influx of expatriates, the American security company Bancroft Global, which has been training AMISOM troops, has spent more than six million dollars building hospitality facilities in the Green Zone, including a hotel with a swimming pool, restaurants, and coffee shops.
Wake up with a dip in the heated pool, before coffee and croissants on the sunny patio.
Past the reception desk (constructed from a reclaimed aeroplane wing, obviously), pool tables, coffee machines, beach huts and video-conferencing room kitted out with aeroplane seats, I arrive at Burj Al Arab, a room named after the famous Dubai hotel.
