The New Yorker's "Shouts & Murmurs" column nails the "NYC versus LA" debate

… point or another  But in a  Shouts Murmurs column in the New Yorker earlier this week writer Susanna Wolff explains why … Then I paid five thousand dollars a month to live in the garbage chute of a postwar luxury condominium on First …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |September 23, 2016 - 1:59PM
5 reasons that 40-square-foot Williamsburg apartment is almost certainly illegal

… not a week goes by without a new story reminding us of the depths to which desperate New Yorkers will sink in … crawl space violates NYC housing laws … No certificate of occupancy … This is really the big one here and the legal … living space says tenants rights attorney Sam Himmelstein  Bedrooms and sleeping spaces need a certain ratio of square …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 21, 2016 - 12:59PM