Virginia K. Smith

The Rockaways has gotten more popular than ever in the past few years (and have spawned many a tone-deaf New York Times trend piece to prove it

Fall may be the time we can finally stop swatting away mosquitos, but it's also the season when New York's furrier pests start trying to move inside. So how best to protect your apartment before you acquire unwanted roommates?

As you might guess, the super is the key to preventing a gas leak in your building (Habitat Magazine)

Forget bed bugs, time to brush up on moths (and how to keep them outside your four walls) (Apartment Therapy)

We recently crunched the numbers on New York's most family-friendly neighborhoods, but what if you want to want to get even more specific, and dig into the city's best buildings for you and your brood?

Apartments in new developments are notoriously expensive—even by New York standards—and seemingly getting more so by the day. But lest we start thinking the only new homes hitting the market are luxury digs priced in the tens of millions of dollars, there are still options in brand new buildings, even if your budget maxes out at $500,000.