URBN Playground Partners with Luxury Auto Detailer Head to Toe in NYC!
URBN Playground is proud to partner with Head to Toe Detailing: Precision Detailing for The Busy Professional and The Car Enthusiast!
A Delicious and Easy Recipe for Traditional Irish Soda Bread
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a delicious and traditional dish - Irish Soda Bread!
With just a few simple ingredients, including flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk, you can whip up a warm and comforting loaf of this Irish staple in no time. So grab your ingredients, preheat your oven, and let's get baking!
Spring into a Cleaner Home: Expert Tips for a Thorough Spring Cleaning
Spring is a time for renewal and fresh starts, and what better way to embrace the season than by giving your home a thorough cleaning?
With National Cleaning Week coming up soon, here are some tips to help you tackle your spring cleaning with ease.
A Non Materialistic Gift Giving Guide: For the Special Ones In Your Life
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, February is a month for celebrating love.
In this spirit, we’ve put together a non-materialistic gift giving guide that’s all about creating moments of togetherness and connection with the people who matter most in your life.
How to Set AND Keep New Year's Resolutions (According to Science!)
The start of a new year is the perfect opportunity to make positive changes in your life. This year especially, many of us are looking for a renewed sense of energy and direction as we rebuild from the pandemic.
One approach that many people take to stay on track and reach their goals is to set New Year's resolutions. But anyone who has tried this knows that sticking to resolutions can be extremely hard! If you’ve already found yourself slipping behind on your resolutions, it’s not too late to make a change.
The Benefits of Being Kind (To Yourself and To Others)
This October, as we celebrate World Mental Health Day (October 10), in the spirit of being kinder to ourselves and to those around us, we’ve put together a list of 5 reasons you should start being kinder today - as well as some practical ways you can put kindness into practice, starting right now!
Top Post-Covid Fitness and Leisure Experiences (and Their Hidden Benefits!)
Multiple studies have shown that when people work out in a group or with a friend, they are more likely to stick to a schedule, complete a fitness program, and achieve their fitness goals.
At URBN Playground, we’ve run hundreds of fitness classes, and we know that fitness is more fun and productive when the experience is shared. With this in mind, we’re introducing a 30-Day Fitness Program that will give our residents the community + accountability + friendly competition + encouragement they need to get or continue to stay fit!
The Power of A Sincere and Genuine Approach to Service
To become a great business, you still need the ‘human touch’ to separate yourselves from competitors by building sincere and genuine relationships. Here’s why sincerity and genuineness still matters, and how you can harness its power to take your business to another level.
How e-Commerce and Digitalization Can Meet Customer Needs in a Post-COVID World
The nature of business has been changing, even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Here are some of the changes we observed taking place pre- and post-pandemic in building management and amenities today, considerations to think about to address these changes, and some ways to meet customers’ evolving needs.
7 Tips to Getting Better Sleep
Getting enough quality sleep safeguards our mental health, physical health and quality of life. Yet more than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep on a consistent basis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Whether you suffer from sleep deprivation yourself, or are just generally looking for better sleeping tips, here are our top 7 tips for getting a good night’s rest:
How Urban Communities Are Transforming Their Spaces for Work, Play, and Living
The pandemic brought devastation and disrupted our way of life. But it also made us pause to reconsider things from a different perspective. As we faced limited options for moving around our cities and interacting with one another, we discovered new ways to work, play, and live. Some of these, it turns out, actually improved our quality of life. And some of these new trends are set to stay even as the world begins to re-open.
Wellness, the URBN Way: Rethinking Self-Care and Fitness
The concepts of self-care and physical fitness are moving beyond a day at the spa and having a six-pack. Daily practices of drinking plenty of water, getting enough sleep and unplugging from work are more vital forms of taking care of oneself than sporadic special treats or crushing it at the gym.
Concierge in Today's Environment
COVID-19 has forced a dramatic shift in how businesses operate, forcing most of us, aside from frontliners, to adhere to social distancing practices. While these restrictions are understandably in our best interest to preserve public health, they can disrupt daily routines and add more stress to people’s already hectic schedules.
An Unconventional Valentine’s Gift Guide
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner - and this year, it will look quite different from previous years. If you’re wondering how to make this day a special one even while social distancing measures remain in place, we’ve got you covered.
Coping With Change in a New Year Unlike Any Other
Have your resolutions fallen off the tracks since the start of the year? As January comes to an end, many of us are asking ourselves the age-old question, ‘Why do I keep making resolutions every year when I barely make it past the first month?’
The Importance of Connection in a Contactless World
With the pandemic still raging, it is likely this status quo will remain for the foreseeable future. With this in mind, it’s more essential than ever to deliberately and creatively work around the challenges of a contact-free world to strengthen existing connections and build new ones. Here are our tips and strategies that can help you build connections in a contactless world.
‘Tis the Season for Giving: A Thoughtful Holiday Gift Guide
2020 has been a year unlike any other. And as we approach the Christmas and New Year season, we wanted to put together a gift guide that was thoughtful and appropriate for these times we are in.
Redefining Wellness in the New Normal
Under normal circumstances, wellness is typically associated with spa days, massages, and workout classes. But COVID-19 and the physical distancing it has brought about has been disorienting, limiting access to resources and amenities that were otherwise conveniently available.
Mental Health Spotlight: Navigating Corona-Era Emotions
For the last six weeks we’ve been lucky enough to host Dr. Tash on our Instagram Live feed for a Q and A. Dr. Tash is a licensed counselor who has been helping us navigate our emotions in the Covid era. We’ve pulled these top five takeaways from our “Talks with Tash.”
Five Self-Care Tips for Everyone to Enjoy
The term self-care is more than lavish spending at a spa or on vacation, but more so keeping up a basic and therapeutic routine. In today’s society, we tend to forget our own needs and how to meet those needs, accordingly.