An East Village apartment available for cheap, toy storage solutions, & more top stories

This week our readers zeroed in on articles on both the high end and low ends of the real estate market, with stories on a housing lottery in the East Village, a house on a Staten Island hill that used to belong to a Mob Wife, and a mansion for rent on the Upper East Side all making our list of the most-read stories.

Here, in full, are our five most-read stories of the past week:

1) Apply to rent an East Village apartment for as little as $1,114 a month

2) This $575,000 Washington Heights apartment needs a complete makeover

3) Kids storage solutions for NYC apartments to help you keep your sanity

4) Here's your chance to live large in a Staten Island house that starred on 'Mob Wives'

5) This Upper East Side mansion is renting for more per month than a typical New York family makes in a year