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New York has long been notorious as the land of therapy, but as it turns out, even the city itself is sick enough (at least from an urban planning perspective), to need a psychiatrist. Her name: Mindy Thompson Fullilove, who works at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and teaches at Columbia University.

This weekend, we're headed for Williamsburg and Bushwick in search of properties hosting open houses. One thing they have in common, besides being two sought-after Brooklyn neighborhoods? All these apartments are asking $600,000 or less.

This week's batch of terrible listings photos feature a hiding child and a bathroom that makes your favorite dive bar's loo look like Versailles. They're all courtesy of Andy Donaldson, the man behind the addictive Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs blog and book, who provides us with his photos, and his commentary.

Ask dozens of New Yorkers where Manhattan Valley is and we bet at least half of them don't exactly know. (Downtowners and Brooklynites, we're talking to you.) It's not a large slice—east of Amsterdam to Central Park West and between 96th Street and 110th Street. It's often folded into the ever-expanding boundaries of the Upper West Side. Here's what else you probably didn't know (and should): 

1. It's not all valley.

Admit it: New Yorkers are nosy. Living separated only by walls (and sometimes painfully thin ones at that) doesn't help. But there's one good reason why it's not so bad to wonder how your neighbors live: We can all learn from each other.