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StreetEasy Takes The Lincoln Tunnel To Jersey
NY-based neighborhood info and real estate aggregator StreetEasy has announced the launch of their northern New Jersey site today. The initial counties in New Jersey include: Hudson, Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic Counties. StreetEasy North Jersey includes sale listings, open houses, a new development directory, and recorded sales.
As I went through the absolutely horrible process of locating an apartment in NYC over the past couple of months, I used StreetEasy a bit. I found that while the site had a lot of information and a good bit of Web 2.0-style features, the search was just too slow. I commented about this in another CN post and within an hour, the lead developer from StreetEasy contacted me to discuss. We had about an hour-long conversation and my guess is that the Google Maps integration is what makes the site so slow. I suggested that the map be user-selectable as I don't care much about the map as I do about the speed of the search. He took that plus my other suggestions and was very open.
There's an absolute gap here in NYC and I will have more on this topic later this week. It won't be pretty, I can assure you of that.
Check out my behind-the-scenes interview with the StreetEasy team at their midtown office.












BTW put your hands up if you knew that there is a really well built mobile version of StreetEasy http://www.streeteasy.com/m
Makes me wonder why they dont talk about it more as it's really slick and the apt photos (on my handset at least), resolved into amazing images.
Cheers,
Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
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