Virginia K. Smith

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The significance of cruddy New York bathrooms, etiquette for living in a friend's closet, and more
By Virginia K. Smith
December 8, 2014 - 10:59 AM

How to be a good guest if you're crashing in your friend's closet (My First Apartment)

The surest (and most elusive) marker of adulthood in NYC: a halfway decent bathroom (BKMag)

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Reel Estate: Home Alone 2 and its brownstone-turned-battleground
By Virginia K. Smith
December 5, 2014 - 12:59 PM
To a lot of people, nothing says "Christmas in New York" like the Rockefeller tree or the windows at Barneys. But to viewers who grew up with Home Alone 2, nothing says "Christmas in New York" like vigilante violence carried out in a Manhattan brownstone by a small child.
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For the lazy but festive: get your Christmas tree delivered this weekend
By Virginia K. Smith
December 5, 2014 - 11:59 AM
Dragging a heavy tree through the streets of the city may be a Christmas rite of passage, but in a town where round-the-clock delivery options are the norm, you should be able to get a Christmas tree sent to your door on demand, no? So goes the thinking behind Tyler's Trees, an online tree-ordering service that'll deliver, install, and even decorate your tree, without you having to set so much as a foot outside. Perhaps more importantly, once the pine needles have dried and the presents have been unwrapped, they'll also come get rid of it.
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Clothes storage for the closet-less renter, no one can afford Brooklyn, and more
By Virginia K. Smith
December 5, 2014 - 10:59 AM

How to elegantly store your clothes when you don't have a real closet (Apartment Therapy)

Buyer (and brownstoner) beware: Brooklyn is now the nation's least affordable housing market (Bloomberg)

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Lessons from a brownstone makeover, costly real estate for the dead, and more
By Virginia K. Smith
December 4, 2014 - 10:59 AM

Steal tricks from these first-time Brooklyn renovators who hit it out of the park (Design Sponge)

After-life real estate at Greenwood Cemetery will cost you a minimum of $320,000 (DNAinfo)

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Would you rent an apartment in "West Bedford"?
By Virginia K. Smith
December 3, 2014 - 15:00 PM

DUMBO, Nolita, Stuyshwick, Stuy Heights, East Bushwick—it seems with every new day the city's neighborhoods are getting chopped up into increasingly specific new territories, usually with hybrid names in tow. And it may be time to add one more to the pile: "West Bedford." 

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