Virginia K. Smith

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.

Normally, we only run our Take It Or Leave It column once a week, but when a listing like the de Blasio house hits the market, we're inclined to make an exception. The first family's Park Slope townhouse is now available as a rental for $4,975 a month, and is billed as a three-bedroom (convertible to four).

There are a lot of options for apartments around NYC if you've got $3,700 a month to spend, from posh Manhattan one-bedrooms (some of them with private outdoor space!) to brand new outer-borough duplexes fit for a family (or a pack of roommates). To make the hunt that much easier, we've looked through the listings for options in this price range in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

One major perk of moving to Downtown Flushing: the food (NYT)

For the more advanced DIY-ers, a guide to painting a tile backsplash (Design*Sponge)

A NYU student's mantras for a sanity-saving apartment hunt (NYULocal)