Virginia K. Smith

These are the apps you should be using to delegate all your household chores (Apartment Therapy)

Sometimes, it really is the right call to confiscate your landlord's cat (XO Jane)

Day trips for the architecturally-minded New Yorker (Curbed NY)

The first phase of the Second Avenue subway line (between 63rd and 96th street) is steadily inching towards its scheduled 2016 completion, but for East Harlem residents, an end to their transportation woes is starting to look further and further away. While the MTA's five-year capital plan goes through the review process in a lead-up to a January vote, transportation officials are under fire for a $1 billion budget cut to the Second Avenue Subway's next phase, an expansion up to 125th street.

Even if you don't have $20 million to spend, you can still cruise the listing photos for Helen Gurley Brown's old, ultra-pink penthouse (Curbed NY)

Video: tips on budgeting for your next move (The Financial Diet)

Where Brooklynites can go swimming indoors this winter (Ditmas Park Corner)

Converted factory? Check. Exposed brick? Check. Sky-high price tag? Goes without saying.

This $5,500/month two-bedroom penthouse in the Soda Factory Lofts may be peak Williamsburg real estate, especially given its location just a few blocks away from the Bedford stop at Berry and North 10th, but it's also everything you could ever want in a loft space.

After a long development process that's included complaints and protests from locals, the cleanup of toxic waste, and a notoriously noisy construction process, Lightstone's huge, 700-unit apartment complex in Gowanus is now accepting applications for a total of 86 affordable ren

The best places to wine 'n dine a date in 24 NYC neighborhoods (Thrillist)

Check out these vintage '60s snaps of Coney Island (Brownstoner)