Virginia K. Smith

A rental for $7,500 a month is no one's idea of a bargain—at least, no one we know—but if you're going to splash out that kind of cash, you might as well get more than an overpriced Midtown one-bedroom. Maybe something like this huge waterfront colonial four-bedroom, three-bathroom house in Whitestone, Queens? 

Check out all that extra living space, including a separate dining room:

It's a somewhat depressing fact of life that even the relatively well-off need subsidized housing in New York, and as such, new developments often reserve affordable rentals for families making well above a neighborhood's median income. Webster Commons, a new middle- and low-income rental complex in the Bronx, starts taking applications tomorrow, and apartments will be available to families with a combined in

A neighborhood guide to diverse, affordable Sunset Park (Brooklyn Based)

The host of your (illegal) Airbnb rental dies. What happens next? (Newsweek)