Virginia K. Smith

To watch Working Girl for the first time as an impartial, real estate-sensitive adult is to feel like you might be missing the point. Of course, we're all rooting for Tess (Melanie Griffith), the scrappy, financially-savvy secretary from Staten Island, to move up in the world and outwit her (admittedly pretty evil) boss Katharine (Sigourney Weaver).

Applications opened today for a long-awaited middle-income rental building in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, with apartments starting at $1,909 a month, according to a new listing on NYC Housing Connect.

Most of us assume (or have learned the hard way) that living above a busy restaurant or bar can be a mixed bag when it comes to excess noise — and excess smell — but it seems that something as innocent as a bagel store can turn into a headache for its upstairs neighbors, too. Hence, a recent lawsuit from an Upper West Side couple who claim that bad ventilation at Bagel Talk on West 78th pumped hot air — or "excessive, unabated and sustained heat," per DNAinfo's report on the lawsuit — into their apartment, rendering it essentially unlivable. Which got us to wondering: If even a kindly purveyor of breakfast carbs can become a nuisance, is it ever a good idea to live directly above a business?