Leah Hochbaum Rosner

Window a/c's will certainly cool you down this summer, but nothing is as quiet (or enviable, a/c-wise) as central air.  

Finding a new apartment in NYC is no easy task. Less-than-scrupulous brokers regularly post listings to sites like Zillow, Trulia, RentHop and Craigslist that seem to depict paradise on earth, but are actually more like holes that aren’t fit for human habitation.

Moving to New York can be daunting—even if the relocation is only temporary. A diligent apartment search or a really good broker can yield decent short-term digs, but if it comes unfurnished, it usually doesn't make sense to spend the time or money outfitting a place unless you tend to settle down for the long haul.

Shortly after graduating from Columbia University in 2006, Tze Chun noticed a strange phenomenon among her friends: Even the ones pulling in six-figure salaries had nothing on their walls but ripped movie posters, if anything.

Whether it’s a leaky faucet, a tub that won’t drain, or something of a more disgusting nature, everybody’s going to need a plumber sometime. And Joseph-Marco Santullo of Systems 2000 Plumbing Services—the latest subject of our Real. Est. List Spotlight Series—wants you to call him when you do.

For many people, window treatments are something of an afterthought—you need to get something, anything to shut out prying eyes (and, if you're lucky, light). But for Delia Heilig, founder of Midtown’s Delia Shades—the subject of this week’s Real. Est. List Spotlight Series—they’re a transformative must, spicing up bad views and inexpensively making over a space.