Lucy Cohen Blatter

Sure, this is a pricey dorm room (about four times what mine cost!), but this is New York City, people. And we think this $2,015 furnished studio is calling out to Columbia grad students. 

On a recent episode of his WNYC radio show, Brian Lehrer asked New Yorkers who'd moved to the city in the last 15 years to call in and discuss how it's been going (this is following a report that 55 percent of New Yorkers are dissatisfied with the direction of the city).

There were some common themes: The rent, and cost of living, is high, of course. But once people get bitten by the New York City bug, so to speak, they find it hard to leave.

For those of us who've been in this city for a while, we know that the word "charm" in a listing means that the apartment is probably in need of a makeover. Behold, there it is, in the description of this $2,995 two-bedroom on West 85th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

When Dan Gluck, the executive director of Manhattan's Museum of Sex, founded the museum  in 2002, he wanted to create a kind of "Smithsonian museum of sex," which looked at sex from an anthropological perspective rather than an erotic art museum.

Among the current exhibitions at the Flatiron museum are "The Sex Lives of Animals" and "The Eve of Porn: Linda Lovelace," which features never-before-seen photos and artifacts.