Lucy Cohen Blatter

For New York City-dwellers looking for more space for less money and access to the outdoors, there are four places they usually go: Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut or New Jersey. This week we're turning our attention to Long Island, via Douglas Elliman's second quarter market report for the area.

"One-way streets are all about speed," says The Atlantic's CityLab blog. As a result, turning one-way streets into two-way streets can make them safer, at least according to a new report. So should our city, which is teeming with one-ways, consider changing things up?

There's a misconception that Hamptons houses, like Manhattan homes, are only attainable by the one percent. But as the latest Douglas Elliman market report for the area shows, the median price of a Hamptons home is actually well under a million — $849,000 to be exact (down 6.5 percent from the same time last year).

If you can make sense of these photos, you may spot some good bones in this $1,995 one-and-a-half bedroom in Greenwood, Brooklyn.

It's the question real estate pundits, mortgage bankers, potential buyers and journalists (like us) have been asking for months now: Is the Federal Reserve about to raise mortgage rates, and if so, by how much? But one New York Times reporter (who's covered the Fed for years), says it really doesn't matter all that much. 

Oh, Brooklyn. You never cease to amaze us these days.  We've reported about how bonkers sales prices are in that borough.