Lucy Cohen Blatter

It's Roommates Week on BrickUnderground, and we're rolling out lots of fresh advice all week long. But it's not like we've ignored the subject until now. Here's a sampling of our best roommate coverage from the archives:

Meet the perfect housemate:

Riverdale is one part of New York City where, assuming you have the cash, you can buy a sprawling suburban-style mansion and—unlike the heated market for Brooklyn brownstones—not face an army of rival bidders coveting the same house, the New York Observer reports.

Even if your building bans pets, you may have to bend the rules for an apartment dweller with a mental or physical disability, from cancer to blindness to anxiety. Federal, state and city laws require that building owners and landlords accommodate tenants who need service animals, even for emotional support.