BrickUnderground

It’s that time: Spring cleaning! Notice the exclamation point here and in the headline. It means I’m excited. While some might not be and think of cleaning and organizing as chores, when you are as neurotic as I am, it is a...

When we last left off, I had just had my apartment treated for the first time for...

If my life was a movie, the foreshadowing would seem too contrived. 

About a year ago I was diagnosed with Lyme disease and have been struggling with it. I often try to explain it to people by saying it...

Now that the micro-apartments are nearly here, I thought I'd try my hand at giving some service-...

I recently celebrated the joys of living in a crappy tenement...

While I often lament the fact that I have no laundry room in my building, no elevator and no doorman, after ...

The last two apartments I’ve lived in have had washing machine access. The first in the basement and the latter in the apartment because...

When I first decided to move, I knew it would be nearly impossible to find what I needed.

I was living in a big junior four for $1,600, with a wall of closets, three armoires, five dressers and lots of storage space...

About a month ago I noticed an odd wet spot on my bathroom ceiling. By the following day it had grown by 100 percent and become progressively darker. By the third day it was even bigger.

I contacted my landlord about the...