Instead of Twitter-crying about your landlord forgetting to turn your one wheezing radiator on, you should be thanking him for getting you ready for swimsuit season. New studies have revealed the existence of brown fat in humans, which burns calories "like a furnace" when the body gets cold. Look for Brown Fat Smoothies soon at a McDonald's near you. more ›

Can Twitter tame the parsimonious proclivities of East Village landlord Jakobson Properties? Fed up with the slow pace and miserable quality of repairs, one tenant created the Twitter account @Jakobson_Fix_It and started a Tumblr to document the company's alleged misdeeds. "I've talked to so many people, and everybody is complaining about things," John, the man behind the Twitter account tells the Post. And surprise: it seems that Jakobson is responding to issues a little faster these days. more ›

The New York State Office of Court Administration [OCA] sells the names of every tenant sued in housing court for eviction, handing over the names to private companies that create lists of potentially bad tenants. Landlords then buy the lists to screen out applicants, many of whom wind up on this list even if they win their housing court lawsuits. Or even if an error resulted in them getting sued by mistake. But now a legal team is going to court to fight the blacklisting. more ›

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has compiled a list of the city's 200 most poorly maintained buildings and has told the owners they must be repaired in 4 months. Or else, the NY Times reports, the city will be able to overhaul them and force the owners to pay. On November 11, a Local Law No. 29, the Alternative Enforcement Program, went into affect to help the HPD to "enforce the correction of... more ›