Virginia K. Smith

This racist, drug-peddling neighbor is almost certainly worse than your building's resident weirdo (Thrillist)

You can now take online classes to become the best Airbnb host you can be (NYO)

Don Draper has his brooding, boozy charms, but for us, Mad Men has always been, in large part,  all about Pete Campbell.  (Trudy: Please come back!) So obviously our ears perked up during last night's mid-season premiere when Pete started complaining about losing a large chunk of his money from the McCann Erickson buyout to taxes, saying,  "To hang onto it I might have to buy an apartment building, but then I'd have to be a landlord." To which we say: Do it!

Q:  I just moved into a pre-war apartment, and the old toilet left by the seller was a Kohler and didn't flush well. I did some research and bought a low-flow, high-efficiency TOTO toilet to replace the old Kohler, but it’s been even worse. What kind of toilet might work best in a pre-war building and with pre-war piping? 

If you've ridden the subway lately—or if, like me, you recently ended up in Times Square on a weekend and had to literally wait in line to cross the street—and thought this city is getting way overgrown, you're not far off. The city's population is growing at a worryingly rapid clip.