Leah Hochbaum Rosner

If you've got some spring cleaning to do, and you're dreading it, know that you have options. Like Genius Organizing—the subject of this week’s Real. Est. List Spotlight Series—can help clear out your closets, de-clutter your home office, and make over your living space into the habitable, inviting place it was meant to be.

You recycle your newspapers and your glass bottles, bike to work when you can, and pay all your bills online. You’re doing your part to help the environment. But you want to do more.   

Realizing that you lost your keys somewhere between the downtown bar and your uptown apartment sucks. Realizing that a locksmith is going to charge you more than a roundtrip flight to Florida to get you back into your apartment sucks harder.

Entry doors serve an important function. They keep the elements at bay, deter would-be burglars, and add or detract from the overall look and value of your home.

Taxis honk their horns at all hours of the night. Sirens blare from near and far. And semi-drunk folks congregate outside the next-door bar for a quick smoke. Will you ever get any sleep?

Shortly after emigrating from Greece in 1959, Dimitri and Calliope Gravanis opened a flower shop on New York’s Upper East Side. Decades later, it has blossomed into the 20,000 square-foot outdoor Urban Garden Center in East Harlem, now owned and run by grandson Dimitri Gatanas.