An Upper West Side townhouse-owning couple's attempt to get the Supreme Court to revoke NYC's rent stabilization laws has failed, with the country's highest court declining to hear the case. Which means that James and Jeanne Harmon must keept their rent-stabilized tenant, who pays $1,000/month for a one-bedroom on West 76th Street, even though she's paying another $1,500/month for her Southampton home. more ›

While we've been looking at apartments that make us a little jealous, there are plenty of nightmare abodes out there in the boroughs, and this latest one is a doozy. Over at Business Insider a woman writes about a $500/month apartment on Mott Street, between Grand and Hester, that she considered renting a few years ago. Some of the highlights: more ›

Anne Hathaway, the most recent incarnation of Catwoman, has moved to Brooklyn... from Brooklyn! That's right, Ms. Hathaway was living in Prospect Heights last year, but recently moved to a sleepier section of the borough: DUMBO. She and fiancé Adam Shulman have settled into 1 Main Street, and Curbed believes she's in unit 6K, "which seems to fit the bill of what she and Shulman were searching for—a 1BR with room for a home office going for $6,400 a month." more ›

In 1929 a NYC-based writer visited a penthouse for sale in Manhattan after hearing these dwellings were all the rage. Originally he believed penthouses were nothing more than "a little shack on a dingy roof," until visiting one himself. more ›

The Economist has this chart showing rents for "high-end flats of the type commonly let by expatriates," and guess what, there are three cities that are more expensive than NYC when it comes to a three-bedroom apartment. more ›

Two weeks ago we asked to see your apartments. New Yorkers, including us, are voyeuristic creatures (admit it), and who doesn't love to see how their neighbors are living... even if it can lead to pangs of jealousy. So here is our first installment, which comes with a pretty amazing story from Lisa R., dating back to 1980. more ›

In the past we've looked at some unrealistic tv show (and movie) apartments, so how does Barney Stinson's Manhattan bachelor pad stack up? The How I Met Your Mother character (played by Neil Patrick Harris) lives the largest amongst the group of friends on the show, and today some people have been wondering how much his apartment costs. more ›

Now, this is the type of city home we love to see. The absolutely charming Anthony Pisano has been living in his East Village apartment for decades... and he usually leaves his door open. Anyone is welcome to drop by and come into his living space (which looks more like an antique shop), and he says no one has ever stolen a thing, though he has given some of his stuff away. Thankfully, filmmaking couple Kelsey Holtaway and Mark Cersosimo documented Pisano and his apartment—so go ahead and introduce yourself in the below video. And if you ever pass by his apartment, drop in, he'll likely be sitting out front. more ›

Real estate envy is alive and well in New York City, and we love to get peeks inside of people's living spaces. We've looked at apartments from 1978 and even from television shows, but now we want to look at your apartment, preferably if it's a particularly unique one. more ›

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 ›