Virginia K. Smith

Your ideal new building-mates: your extended family? (NYDN)

Overdone DIY tricks, and how to update them (House Beautiful)

Apparently brokers and big box retailers share pricing strategies: if you're looking for a $2 million apartment in NYC, you'll find a lot of things just barely under budget (think $1,999,999). We've combed the listings for options in all five boroughs, from an opulent Central Park South one-bedroom to a stately Ditmas Park Victorian to investment-worthy multi-fam

As far as building disputes go, you'd think this one would be pretty straightforward: a vote to make co-op owners' apartments nearly 100 times more valuable than their original purchase prices. After all, who'd vote no on that kind of payday? 

Now that you're no longer blasting the A/C and kicking the blankets off every night, here's how to decorate your bedroom for fall (Apartment Therapy)

Plenty of New Yorkers would like to live in a brownstone, but dealing with the hassles—lack of outlets, inefficient layouts and all those stairs—that come with a 100-year-old house? Not so much. Assuming, and this is a very large assumption, that budget is no option, then, a new construction townhouse is an ideal solution. As luck would have it, New York's been having a small building boom of late, and we've rounded up options on the market for those of you who want an entire house to yourself, and the distinction of being its very first owner.