Virginia K. Smith

Dying to get out of the city for a ski weekend? Meet the NYC Snow Bus (Brokelyn)

Even Berlin's strict new rent control law hasn't kept rents from rising (City Lab)

Ah, memories: there was also a Williamsburg transit nightmare back in the '80s (Gothamist)

On the off-chance you can't quite afford a pricey rental on the edge of Central Park (or even Prospect Park), consider this the next best option: living on a street that's been dubbed "the greenest block in Brooklyn."

Q: I own in a large co-op complex, and personally qualify for a STAR tax rebate. [Ed note: It's a tax rebate available to homeowners 65 or older, as well as those within certain income brackets.] My co-op lumps all the rebates for which people in the building qualify as a single credit to the cooperative, and re-distributes the credit to people individually based on a formula to determine their share of the rebate.

Here's a map of the most common language (besides English or Spanish) in every NYC neighborhood (The Real Deal)

Maya Angelou's historic Harlem brownstone has hit the market (NYT)

Any smartphone-using renter who's ever dealt with the old-school hassles of bank transfers—or even more quaint, physical paper checks—has probably thought to themselves at some point, "Ugh, can't I just Venmo in my rent??"