StreetNoise: What $1 million can buy, the neighbors don't approve of your airbnb habit, and more

By Ronda Kaysen | January 12, 2012 - 10:23AM

What can $1 million can buy? About two bedrooms (NY1)
Yorkville is Manhattan's version of the 'burbs: cheaper, quieter and hard to reach (Daily News)
Time to shack up, NYC renters: Higher rents, fewer concessions (CurbedNY)
The doorman is watching, and he sees everything.... (New York Magazine)
...meanwhile, the neighbors know all about your airbnb.com habit, and they're blogging about it, too (BetaBeat; previously)
Putting a washer/dryer in a NYC apartment is way more work (and money) than you think (StreetEasy Forum)
Watch your back in Carroll Gardens and the Slope: robberies on the rise (NY Post via Brownstoner)
Confessions of a real estate photographer (Wall Street Journal)
It sounds like elephants upstairs, but it's just the neighbor's heels (UrbanBaby)

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