Virginia K. Smith

What to do when your landlord's gone off the deep end—but your rent is too cheap to give up (NYT)

From cleaners to on-demand booze, these are the city's best home services (Gothamist, previously)

RIP HopStop—plus six other transit apps to fill the void (DNAinfo)

After a years-long back and forth, uptown preservationists scored a big win this week with the Landmarks Preservation Committee voting to extend Harlem's Mount Morris Park Historic District, as DNAinfo reported. The expansion includes six blocks between 118th and 123rd streets between Adam Clayton Powell and Lennox avenues, an area that includes over 250 rowhouses and around 12 apartment buildings:

The high prices on Brooklyn brownstones can be blamed in part on their inherent desirability, but also on a basic issue of supply and demand: There just aren't that many of them on the market at any given time, creating stiff competition, and inevitably, higher prices. But lately, the scale looks to have tipped a little in buyers' favor: There's a surprising surplus of brownstones on the market right now, the Observer reported this week.