Neighborhood Intel

Escaping Brooklyn for Queens, the drawbacks of living by smokers, and more

By Virginia K. Smith  | February 18, 2016 - 10:59AM
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Confirmed: life is chiller and cheaper if you leave Brooklyn for Queens (Brokelyn)

Even for a discount, nobody wants to live next to a smoker (NYO)

A former church, a rooftop cabin, and more of the oddest apartments currently on the market (AM NY)

There's a Court Navigator Program to help tenants without lawyers navigate the city's byzantine system (WSJ)

Toilet rats, "death by fart," and other uniquely New York fears (DNAinfo)

It's time to think outside the bar when it comes to, er, bar carts (Apartment Therapy)

Inevitably, you can now pay $3,000/month for a *room* in a Williamsburg co-living space (Gothamist)

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