Lucy Cohen Blatter

We've always been jealous of our friends and families with backyards where they can actually grow their own produce. But a new startup is looking to make it easier for green-thumbed apartment-dwellers to make like farmers, regardless of the season.

Sign we may have looked at too many teeny tiny apartments in our time: We really appreciate the fact that this Park Slope apartment is listed as a studio rather than a one-bedroom, despite the fact that there's a door separating the bed and living room space. (Can you tell how often we've encountered brokers who'd try to get away with calling a space like this a one-bedroom?)

Tales of neighborhood gentrification are nothing new in this city, but it's hard to ignore just how high-end the gentrification of once-Bohemian Greenwich Village has made the area. 

Think musicians are the only ones with outrageous riders? Think again. Landlords often add them—addendums with unique rules and restrictions—to their standard leases.