Virginia K. Smith

Got a backyard? How to handle an upstairs neighbor who dumps ice on you from their fire escape (seriously) (NYT)

Can you follow in the footsteps of that hero cabbie and get your own $226/mo permanent hotel room? Eh, maybe (Gothamist)

Telltale signs of a NYC rookie (Thrillist)

Even for the most well-organized among us, owning property is nothing if not a logistical headache, between bills, paperwork, and maintenance tasks you once happily outsourced to the super. So it's no surprise that a startup has stepped into the fray to help homeowners keep track of it all.

"We try to take the thinking out of 'what do I have to do this month to maintain my home?," explains HomeZada co-founder Elizabeth Dodson, who bills the site as "a digital place to store all the information about your house."

How one cabby landed a permanent, $226/month spot in a Chelsea hotel and former SRO (NYP)

Can we interest you or your dog in this rug that looks like a steak? (Curbed National)

Jury's still out on whether rent control is even a good idea (Zillow Blog)

There may, eventually, come a day where we get tired of playing the game of "how much can you buy in other cities for the price of a New York apartment?" Today is not that day. And in case you haven't heard, the dream of New Yorkers moving to L.A. is already dead, with the city's latest exodus headed straight for New Orleans,  according to the New York Post.

Trend we can get behind: painted and/or patterned facades in Bushwick (Brownstoner)

Finally, a guide to NYC's (surprisingly numerous) castles (Curbed NY)