Virginia K. Smith

If you still haven't had your fill of hipster jokes, behold, Jimmy Kimmel's 'Do The White Thing' (Vulture)

10 hidden Chinatown gems you haven't already heard of (Business Insider)

Time to downsize? More micro apartments are coming to the city (Crain's)

Sometimes the affordable housing gods (read: developers) offer up hundreds of apartments in a brand-new development to renters, and sometimes, they have just one or two listings at a time. This week, we're looking at the latter option, as the lottery opened up for just two affordable rentals in Bushwic, per a listing on NYC Housing Connect.

A haunted mansion, a ghost town, and other "spooky" listings currently on the market (AM NY)

Airbnb put up (and already apologized for) some tone-deaf new ads around SF (SF Weekly)

We've occasionally been known to toy with the idea of fleeing the five boroughs for the spacious, relatively well-priced housing options out in the 'burbs. (We're only human.) But if the latest round of Douglas Elliman market reports is any indication, buyers itching to own an honest-to-god house may as well stay put in the city: in Greenwich, Connecticut, for instance, the median price of a single-family home is now $1.86 million.

Forget tiny houses: move into this Guinness record-setting LEGO Caravan (Mental Floss)

The Financial District deserves way more credit as a fun-to-live-in neighborhood (Thrillist)