Virginia K. Smith

After years in limbo, Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village got a new owner this week—and with it, protections for nearly half of its rent-stabilized apartments. At a press conference yesterday, it was announced that the Blackstone Group is acquiring the middle-income rental complex for a cool $5.3 billion, as Bloomberg reported, and is partnering with the city to preserve a large chunk of its affordable apartments.

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Of all the "quirks" we see in the world of New York rentals, apartments that barely see the light of day are one of the most common. (Seriously, who hasn't done time in a might-as-well-be-windowless apartment at some point or another?)

So it's no surprise that we get a little excited when we come across an apartment like this Columbia House rental on the UWS, with its living room full of wall-to-wall, "oversized windows":

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