Virginia K. Smith

While plenty of New York landlords are perfectly honest small businesspeople, it's a sad truth that there are also plenty of landlords who are, in fact, out to get you. More specifically, they're out to either charge you an illegally high rent, or kick you out of your apartment altogether so they can replace you with a higher-paying tenant.

Dear Sam: I have a rent-stabilized apartment, and hired and paid for my own exterminator. Now the management is refusing to let them into the building to do their work. Is this allowed?

That maybe-haunted Staten Island mansion is back on the market, after a serious price chop (Curbed NY)

Progress on the 2nd Avenue Subway is falling behind schedule (AM NY)

What does it cost these days to live large in the West Village? A monthly nut that's equivalent to most entry-level publishing salaries, it would seem. But in spite of its eye-popping $29,000/month price tag, we're fairly smitten with this two-bedroom that just came on the market in the West Village.

Someone put a Greenpoint igloo on Airbnb after the blizzard (DNAinfo)

Developers say "the Piano District" is just the name of their new Bronx building, not an attempted neighborhood re-branding (BX Times)