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In honor of FSBO Week, we're featuring apartments on this weekend's open-house circuit that are going the market broker-free.
First stop, Clinton Hill:
Gothamist has unearthed fantastic footage of circa-1980s East Village, long before it underwent its fashionable makeover, which got us doing a little digging ourselves. This nugget from 1991 shows "man on the street" interviewer Jerry Rio planting himself at the corner of West 72nd Street and Broadway, which, too, has been the nexus of the neighborhood's spendy transformation.
Writer, blogger and cartoonist Sarah Cooper used to call New York City her home. But now she's in San Francisco, and as she's since discovered, the two places are painfully alike when it comes to real estate, with SF actually more untenable for renters than NYC.
A Monday midday diversion: You know that slogan: Location, location, location? We found the guy who coined it — or so he claims. (He says the truism is actually meant to be: Location, location, location, location.) Jump ahead to the 16:52 mark of this episode of the 1990s animated series, Comedy Central's "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist," to meet him. Watch the rest to see how Dr. Katz deals with his slacker 24-year-old son, who thinks that finding your first apartment means making "bold moves, and let the chips fall" instead of figuring out how much you can afford.
