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By now, you’ve probably heard about the cleaning guru that is Marie Kondo. A rock star figure in Japan, she’s credited with a revolutionary regimen — dubbed KonMari, a twist on her name — that will not only get your cabinets and drawers in shape, but apparently change your life. (She encapsulated her ideas in a New York Times bestseller, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.) It’s gotten so that she’s spawned a network of sorts on YouTube, inspiring the creation of nearly 2000 videos, all in service of sharing the wisdom of KonMari with others.

Brooklyn and Queens may be getting all the love from starter-apartment buyers on a budget, but for avowed Manhattanites, the northernmost portion of the borough still offers apartments at reachable prices. Plus, it’s got plenty of restaurants, green space (hello, Fort Tryon Park, Isham Park and Inwood Hill Park!) and access to two train lines.

Yes, spring is here. It's finally here! And if you don't believe your own eyes — and we get you, we're worried about a fake-out, too — just feast them on this time-lapse video posted by the Wall Street Journal. It tracks how Bryant Park metamorphosed from frozen tundra to the greenspace it (finally) is.

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Last Sunday's Mad Men episode wasn't one of our favorites — too much Megan — but one detail did catch us: Don Draper saying he was going to sell his apartment now that he and his second wife are officially finished. How much could he get for a Park Avenue penthouse in 1970?

How to trace the pattern of wealth disparity in this city—besides the widening chasm between super-luxury condos and the rest of the market, that is? Look for the trees. Or rather, for how many trees there are in your neighborhood.