We just stumbled upon this sweet vintage video on a trip down the Youtube rabbit hole, showing a Manhattan couple trying to make their tiny apartment into a livable space. People from the 1950s: they're just like us! more ›

If you're a billionaire who bought your 22-year-old daughter an $88 million "weekend" apartment on Central Park West, it makes sense to buy her security detail an $8.35 million apartment in the same building. If you're Dmitry Rybolovlev, that is. more ›

If your 80-year-old billionaire activist investor boyfriend promises you a Manhattan apartment but ends up giving it to another woman—and tells you this over pillow talk—you should sue him, right? That's what 28-year-old Adriana Ferreyr is doing by filing a $50 million lawsuit against George Soros. However, Soros' spokesman says, "This is a blatant attempt to shake down George Soros. The lawsuit is frivolous and completely without merit." more ›

Yesterday, the NY Times reported that an Upper East Side landlord was suing to evict Faye Dunaway, claiming that the Oscar-winning actress was not living in her rent-stabilized, one-bedroom walkup. Now, Dunaway has left three voicemail messages with the NY Times, explaining that her landlord can't sue to evict her...'cause she's not even living there anymore. more ›

The below video is making the rounds today (and, no, it's not an April Fool's joke), which shows a woman giving a tour of her studio apartment... all 90-square-feet of it. That's smaller than the previously proclaimed smallest apartment in New York! Felice Cohen (who we mentioned a year before this video was made—so she's been in there for quite some time!), has traded in not having a kitchen for being one block from Central Park, and having other city luxuries that are right outside her front door. Take a look at what $700 will get you on the Upper West Side: more ›

Now that we've banished smokers from our beaches, pedestrian plazas, parks, automobiles carrying children, dreams, bars, novels, restaurants, sidewalks, thoughts, and fantasies, one last hurdle remains: ridding ourselves of those untouchables who still light up behind closed doors. Today the Wall Street Journal reports that a number of co-ops and condos are planning votes to ban smoking inside private residences, man. more ›

In his poem Mending Wall, Robert Frost wrote, "Good fences make good neighbors." But in New York City, you usually don't have fences, just thin walls, which makes being a good neighbor a little more difficult. The Lexiphane shared this photograph with us and writes, "Neighbors in NYC walk-up apartment buildings live in close proximity to each other, and yet are separated by schedules and doors. There is a forced intimacy to apartment building living that can lead to over-brimming frustration, and yet there is a practical physical estrangement that reduces neighbor-to-neighbor confrontations to strongly worded notes left in hallways for all to see." more ›

There are more details about the alleged rape and imprisonment of a Wisconsin woman in a Brooklyn apartment. The Brooklyn Paper reports, "When police arrived, they found [suspect John] Hopkins and his victim as well as bolts on the ceiling, a rope on the floor, and a bag by the bed with a pair of handcuffs, a ball gag, a whip and several other sex toys, according to sources." more ›

A too-good-to-be-true offer of a free room in a Brooklyn apartment turned out to be how a man allegedly lured a Wisconsin woman to his East Williamsburg home, where he is accused of beating, chaining her to a radiator and raping her. John Hopkins, 45, was charged with rape, assault and unlawful imprisonment. more ›

So that time Lady Gaga tried to get into her old apartment at 176 Stanton Street with Anderson Cooper in tow? Turns out she got in by buzzing every buzzer in the building until someone let her in (she calls this "the New York way"), but the current tenant in her apartment of three years wouldn't allow her to check out her old place. The woman told her she'd "rather not" let her in, and if you watch the below video closely you can almost see Gaga's ego regenerating instantly from the bruise. more ›

Nothing like finding that new, quiet apartment you've always dreamed of only to discover your neighbor is... a hoarder. Curbed has the story of one woman who moved to 27th Street in Murray Hill, and on her first night of unpacking heard what she thought was someone trying to break in to the apartment across the hall. As she quickly found out from the super, that person was just Coe, her new neighbor who hoards so much that she needs to "tackle" her door just to get in! more ›

You pay through the nose for an apartment you can barely afford, with roommates you can't stand, in a neighborhood where you run home from the subway station screaming to yourself like a schizophrenic to ward off muggers, all the while dreaming of a better life in a roach-free apartment in a safer part of town. Meanwhile, 21-year-old University of Central Florida senior Adam Venckauskas clicked once to enter HGTV's "Urban Oasis giveaway" contest, and won a furnished condo at the W New York Hotel in the Financial District. And a new car. "It's perfect... Whenever I have a long weekend, I'll come up," the tall, good-looking young winner tells the Post. We sincerely hope he enjoys it, and has lots of mind-blowing sex while gazing out at the Statue of Liberty and savoring how fair and perfect life really is. more ›

Animal rescue workers removed 38 cats from a Staten Island home in Great Kills, where it seems the felines (half of them feral) were "living amid piles of filth and excrement, with no food or water." A Staten Island Hope Animal Rescue worker told the Staten Island Advance, "It was kind of overwhelming. They’re very, very skinny. And they looked very traumatized. I think they were a week without food. ... Some were pregnant. One had kittens already." more ›

Yesterday at the Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear, attendees were treated to several collage-like montages of media talking heads listing all the things we need to be afraid of, including flip flop, bedbugs and hurricanes. There's one new thing to add to that list: conspiratorial lesbian-controlled low-rent apartment buildings! more ›

It was just a few months ago that the pricey rent concessions some buildings and landlords were being analyzed, but lately it seems like some landlords want their tenants to...pay more. One Midtown tenant who is facing an apartment lease renewal sans concessions (like a month's free rent) told NY1, "It is shocking to see numbers jump like that, especially for someone who is new to the city. I obviously don’t know what the New York City real estate game is like, but as a renter who is new, who experienced an unbelievable deal coming here, it was shocking for me to be faced with those numbers." more ›

Tiger Woods' former favorite (we think, given that he allegedly paid her $8-10 million to keep quiet about their affair) mistress Rachel Uchitel is moving to a Manhattan condo. And, responding to potential criticism about visiting Ground Zero (her fiance died at the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks) for the filming of Celebrity Rehab, she wants the haters to know, "Nobody can f--k with me about 9/11." more ›

Allen Ginsberg spent 21 years of his life (1975 to 1996) living in a fourth floor walk-up in the East Village, and now—following the death of his partner Peter Orlovsky, it's on the rental market. Earlier this month, The Allen Ginsberg Project stopped by as it was undergoing renovations, and there's little left of the poetic madman's presence. For example, the bedroom that his pal Harry Everett Smith once resided in is now a bathroom (read an interview Ginsberg did with Paola Igliori in 1995, where the two discussed his one-time roommate). more ›

Rush Limbaugh is making good on his promise to "get out of New York totally," and has finalized the $11.75 million sale of his Upper East Side apartment to "international purchasers." And Limbaugh was apparently so eager to relocate to Florida that he left the apartment furnished and decorated. Luckily, the buyers were reportedly "especially attracted to the richly designed space." Now they have the luxury of waking up every morning and looking at cherubs holding flowered garlands right above their heads! more ›

Courtney Love lives in New York, but is having that same problem everyone has when moving around in the city... finding the perfect place. (Rock stars, they're just like us.) She has yet to find that magical place to settle into, and in a little off-the-cuff interview with NYMag she discusses her real estate woes, first declaring: "I've been here for a year looking for a house. I live here. I am a member of your society." But it seems certain parts of that society don't want her living next door; when hoping to move into a home next to Anna Wintour, she was turned down, even though her "references are impeccable!" (Don't take it personally C.Lo, Anna doesn't really want anyone near her). more ›

In the season premiere of Mad Men, Don Draper is set up in his new city digs (circa 1964)—which we find out is in the vicinity of Waverly Place and 6th Avenue. True/Slant set itself upon a mission this week to find out the exact address where the ad man lives in season 4, and they're pretty certain it's at 136 Waverly Place. The 16-story apartment building—better known as The Waverly—was built in 1928, and still stands today. more ›

Roman Catholic Priest Rev. Kevin J. Gray was charged with first-degree larceny for stealing $1.3 million to pay for "hotels, restaurant meals, clothing and male escorts." Oh and also rent on a NYC apartment and the Harvard tuition for a man he met in Central Park. According to the Hartford Courant, the Waterbury priest told authorities he "'had grown to hate being a priest' because the Archdiocese had given him the 'worst church assignments' where he would 'have to fix problems made by the previous priests,' according to his arrest warrant." more ›

A proposed state law that would require landlords to disclose bedbug history dating back five years has been amended to just one year. Landlords had objected that a five-year disclosure period would unfairly penalize property owners, by scaring off prospective tenants even if the landlords had successfully eradicated the bugs. The modified bill also no longer requires landlords to disclose specific infested apartments beyond the one under consideration by a potential renter. (Landlords would still have to disclose infestations in the building, just not their specific location.) Also missing from the bill [pdf] is any language requiring new tenants moving in from disclosing their bed bug history. One bedbug expert tells Brick Underground that in New Jersey "there are one or two buildings that have their own heat treatment chambers which incoming residents must use." more ›

When Barack Obama moved out of his apartment on 109th Street decades ago, he noted in his memoir that he fled "due to lack of heat.” Now Apartment 3E at 142 West 109th Street is back on the market, and the going rate is $1850/month (if you can't afford that, the nearby alley he slept in is probably a lot cheaper). more ›