Virginia K. Smith

Manhattan alternatives to overpriced Brooklyn 'hoods (NYT)

It's high time you got creative with your tile choices (WSJ)

Now's a great time to be a flipper, in case you were wondering (NYDN)

This Bushwick mansion has multiple personalities (6sqft)

Is de Blasio going to totally eradicate your neighborhood's rat population? Maybe! (NYDN)

Manhattan is now the "budget" alternative to Brooklyn (NYT)

After all these years, it may finally be time to retire your worn-out "Whole Paycheck" jokes: Whole Foods is gearing up to launch a more affordable offshoot aimed towards millenials, the company announced earlier this week.

Besides "pollen tsunamis," budding romance, and outdoor drinking, spring is also known for that other seasonal tradition, tours of fancy New York houses. (Technically these run through the summer and the fall, too, but spring is the kickoff).

While some of us would argue that stoners make ideal (and docile) neighbors, not everyone is dying to live in a cloud of someone else's smoke. "We don't smoke cigarettes and don't begrudge people that smoke, ahem, other things, we just don't want to smell it in our house," one beleaguered renter wrote in to Apartment Therapy's recurring "Ask Alice" et