Virginia K. Smith

How to avoid getting caught up in a rental scam (for good measure, we've got some tips of our own) (DNAinfo) 

How much do you need to earn to afford a home in NYC? Quite a bit (Gothamist)

Or, spend $800 a month on a 55-square-foot room (bathroom and kitchen access not included!) in the Financial District (Curbed NY)

Wood-burning fireplaces (and the havoc they wreak on the environment) are possibly on the way out in NYC (NYT)

A little relief from that no-mortgage peer pressure: only 45 percent of recent Manhattan home sales were all cash affairs, not 80 percent as previously reported (Matrix Blog)

A Lower East Side building using facial recognition technology instead of keys--ingenious or invasion of privacy? (NYT)

It's harsh, but here's one way of recouping money from co-op owners who've stopped paying (Habitat Magazine)