Teri Karush Rogers

Most New Yorkers understand that California Closets can only take you so far. Sooner or later, your kid will demand her closet back and your husband will notice that behind the scrim of his five favorite suits, “his” closet is now a hers.

For many of us, a box of heavy-duty garbage bags and a trip or twelve to Housing Works comes next.   

The incredibly bug-informed Renee Corea at nyvsbedbugs.org points out to us that complaints to 311 about bed bugs (which we reported on recently here) don't paint a full enough picture of our city's problem. 

For a good eight or nine hours today, our bed bugs-by-the-borough post commanded prime real estate on Huffington Post/NY.  

So far, more than 2,000 people have clicked through, including a 4:1 ratio of New Yorkers to Californians (probably weighing whether they would trade their budget nightmare for our bloodsucking one).

Habitat magazine’s annual managing agent issue (July/Aug) contained a trove of money-saving ideas for NYC co-op and condo buildings.  Here are a few that caught our attention:

1.  Go paperless—use email and PDFs for board packages, building memos, and announcements.

2.  Look into other ways to create revenue such as through signage outside your building, renting out roof space for cell-towers, building more storage space, and selling air rights.

As Curbed reports this afternoon, sometime after the real estate site picked up our recent post about the now infamous Twittering doorman, the liveried commentator's feed and blog went dark.  

We are trying to contact him directly to learn whether his hiatus is temporary or permanent, but, like Curbed, we fear the worst.