Virginia K. Smith

Good news for doorman-less Brooklynites: your days of schlepping packages from your office all the way to your Greenpoint walk-up are numbered. Delivery-scheduling service  Parcel, which launched in Manhattan last December, will expand its services to numerous Brooklyn neighborhoods this Thursday. 

In a tiny shared apartment, maybe re-think keeping your entire record collection in the living-room-that's-also-a-bedroom (Apartment Therapy)

Is $100/month rent worth having all your windows blocked by new construction? (NYDN)

Looking to buy in NYC on a budget of around $1.2 million? In the interest of speeding up the search, we looked through the current listings for pads in your price range in all five boroughs, from Manhattan condos to a Bed-Stuy multi-family to a waterfront spread on City Island.

You'd think paying your rent on time and in full would be enough to guarantee you a spot in your apartment, sans lawsuits, but not necessarily: a renter in a co-op wrote to the New York Times this weekend about the delinquent apartment owner. Thanks to this landlord's failure to keep up with the building's maintenance charges, the tenant could wind up in hot water, too.

If your roommate's boyfriend is a permanent fixture, time to get real (Gothamist)

A fed up tenant is looking for "horror stories"about one big NYC landlord (Medium)

But blogger beware: one Coney Island co-oper is getting sued for chronicling the board's alleged mismanagement (NYP)

Want the gritty sensibility of exposed wooden beams, while still maintaining a level of comfort and pampering generally reserved for a Fancy Feast cat (or at least, a Wall Street banker)? You're definitely not alone,  and there are plenty of places on the market that boast classic wooden beams, often original to the building.