Virginia K. Smith
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Your slim chances of winning the affordable housing lottery, mapped (DNAinfo)
Your dreams of exploring North Brother Island may soon come true (Gothamist)
Nom Wah Tea Parlor has been a Chinatown institution since 1920, and it also happens to be located on one of our favorite streets. But since Wilson Tang took the reins of the family business in 2011, the restaurant has experienced a wave of newfound popularity among neighborhoods restaurants and visitors alike. (Read: all-day dim sum.)
Dear Sam: I'm a renter in a building that converted to a co-op years before I moved in. However, the building is for all intents and purposes a rental, as the sponsor just rents out all the apartments instead of selling them. Is there any chance we could be rent-regulated?
Your Gowanus neighbors aren't going to be psyched with all your Halloween carousing (StreetEasy)
Finally, a site that'll tell you if anyone's ever died in your home (Forbes)
Want to blow everyone else's Halloween parties out of the water this year? Then it may be in your best interest to snap up this bright and airy townhouse with one very on-theme talking point: views that look directly out onto the neighborhood Green-Wood cemetery.
