Virginia K. Smith

Besides fall colors, autumn in New York means one very specific thing for the city's tenants: falling rents. While apartments aren't exactly renting out at bargain basement prices, DNAinfo has a reminder today that you're more likely to hit on a deal with a landlord between the middle of October and December than at any other part of the year.

Down with break dancers, up with flimsy decor? A cardboard "apartment" made its way onto the subway (Gothamist)

And over in Sunset Park, $525/month studios may be coming to a redeveloped library branch (DNAinfo)

In a rare, accurate trend piece about millennials, NPR looked into the preponderance of young people now choosing to move in together before marriage—more than 65 percent of nuptials now start off with unmarried cohabiting, as opposed to 10 percent just 50 years ago.