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  1. mysteries
    Why Is My Apartment So Dusty All the Time?It took several air monitors, a Ziploc of my own hair, and two scientists to find out.
    By Clio Chang
  2. the housing market
    Define ‘Penthouse’From low-rises to tiny top floors in new developments, brokers are getting increasingly creative with their use of “PH.”
    By Clio Chang
  3. announcements
    The Listings Edit Newsletter Is Back!Sign up to get The Listings Edit, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York City.
    By Nora DeLigter
  4. the rent is too damn high
    The $3,500 No-Kitchen ApartmentGetting by with a mini-fridge and hot plate used to mean cheap rent. Now it’s a “versatile” amenity.
    By Clio Chang
  5. How to Make Moving Less Stressful8 tips from someone who’s done it … a lot.
    By Aviel Kanter
  6. loud town
    Barely Surviving the Sounds of New York CityHyperacusis is a rare medical condition that can make ordinary noises painful. Rarer still — having it and living in Manhattan.
    By Clio Chang
  7. housing crisis
    What Does the Mayor Have Against Windows?Natural daylight is not the enemy of affordable housing.
    By Alissa Walker
  8. the housing market
    New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much?Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
    By Lane Brown
  9. celebrity
    Julia Fox Has a Mice-Friendly ApartmentShe mentioned her rodent roommate during an apartment tour on TikTok.
    By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
  10. street fights
    13 Years, 3 Mayors, Countless Community Board Meetings, and Just One BuildingThe tortured saga of turning a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot into 112 affordable apartment units.
    By Bridget Read
  11. the housing market
    The Average Rent in Manhattan Is Now $5,000Congratulations!
    By Katie McDonough
  12. awful things
    This Is the Worst Roommate Story You’ll Ever ReadOne scheming, sinister man. A dozen unsuspecting victims. The ultimate Craigslist nightmare.
    By William Brennan
  13. culture
    I Wish I Had a Creepy Room Behind My Bathroom MirrorThink of all the possibilities.
    By Amanda Arnold
  14. problem solving
    31 Ideas for Renting an Apartment in New YorkCraigslist is a wasteland, Zillow owns everything, so try these slightly off-kilter, in-the-side-door tips instead.
    By Margaret Rhodes, Matthew Sedacca, and Katy Schneider
  15. cityscape
    The Challenges of Constructing New York’s Tallest Apartment BuildingA conversation with the architects of the 131-story Central Park Tower.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. science of us
    Does Your Apartment Have Friendly Microbes?On the difference between ground-floor microbes and the ones found higher up.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  17. properties
    13 New York Buildings That Stick Out Like Sore ThumbsThe ultramodernist brownstones, teeny townhouses, and Japanese pagodas that aren’t like their neighbors.
    By Katy Schneider
  18. properties
    The Turrets of New York — and the People Who Inhabit ThemA survey of the city’s tiny medieval towers on the Upper West Side, in Crown Heights, and on Staten Island.
    By Katy Schneider
  19. new york 50th anniversary
    We Took 4 Notable New Yorkers to Revisit Their Old ApartmentsWhoopi Goldberg, Martha Stewart, Matthew Broderick, and Lauren Hutton revisit New York City apartments they once lived in.
    By Jada Yuan
  20. summer weddings 2017
    How to Have a Wedding in a New York City ApartmentYou’re already sleeping in the city’s best venue.
    By Kaitlin Menza
  21. Airbnb Could Be Making Your Apartment More ExpensiveIt makes finding an apartment harder.
    By Adam Banicki
  22. new york real estate
    Taylor Swift’s New York Rent Is Only 26 Times More Than MineShe got a New York apartment for $40,000 a month.
    By Allie Jones
  23. The Weird Socialist Logjam That Gives Stockholmers 20-Year Apartment WaitsMaybe Scandinavia isn’t the best at everything after all.
    By Drake Baer
  24. city living
    What New Yorkers Learned From Actually Having to Meet Their NeighborsFive novelists talk to their neighbors for the first time, nine New Yorkers share their fantasies about the ones they’ve never met, and how to deal with less-than-ideal ones.
  25. video
    I Took My Sunglasses to Coco Chanel’s Paris ApartmentA visit to 31 Rue Cambon.
    By Shiona Turini
  26. lifestyles of the rich and famous
    The Original Cosmo Girl’s Bachelorette Pad Is on the MarketYou can live like Helen Gurley Brown for $20 million.
    By Véronique Hyland
  27. A Preview Tour of New York’s First Micro-Unit Apartment BuildingInside a studio at Carmel Place — all 302 square feet of it.
    By Wendy Goodman
  28. first person
    4 People, 650 Square Feet: A Love StoryHow I came around to family life in a one-bedroom New York apartment.
    By Helen Phillips
  29. real esate
    Brigitte Bardot’s Old Apartment Is for SaleIt’s $8.2 million, or the going price of je ne sais quoi.
    By Maggie Lange
  30. things that are scary
    Florida Gunman Killed After Deadly Shooting Spree and Hostage Standoff [Updated]He shot six people before barricading himself in an apartment with two others.
    By Delia Paunescu
  31. party chat
    Creatures of the Wind Designers Moving to New YorkHave they finally outgrown the “Chicago designers” thing?
    By Jenni Avins
  32. How We Live Now: Davidson on Bloomberg’s MicroapartmentsThe modern home was built for the bygone nuclear family.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. real estate
    NYC Rent Control Is Safe for NowThe Supreme Court threw out an appeal against rent-stabilization laws today.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  34. how the other half lived
    Coco Chanel’s Apartment Looks Just Like You’d ExpectCourtesy of the Coveteur.
    By Charlotte Cowles
  35. rock you like a hurricane
    New York’s Apartment Managers Prepare for IreneRemove all your balcony furniture, rich people!
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  36. vu.
    Meghan McCain’s Apartment Is Full of SkullsWhat, isn’t yours?
    By Chris Rovzar
  37. real estate
    Manhattan Residential Market Reports: Condo, Co-op, and New-Construction Prices DipAnd apartments are taking longer to sell.
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  38. jeepers creepers
    Doorman Naps in Traveling Woman’s ApartmentBut she wasn’t traveling!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  39. jeepers creepers
    Witness One New York Apartment Terror You Didn’t Even Think to be Afraid of: The CreeperA person could be LIVING IN YOUR APARTMENT with you!
    By Chris Rovzar
  40. vu.
    Manhattan Real Estate: A Decade Screeches to a HaltJust as you probably expected, the amount of residential real estate languishing for sale in the city is higher than it has been in ten years.
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  41. For Sale
    Top Chef Condo for RentMaybe Leah left a bra behind! Or Fabio, a thong!
    By Daniel Maurer
  42. vu.
    Fourth-Quarter Market Reports: The Reckoning Begins, Sort ofThe reporting is still behind the bad developments.
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  43. real estate porn
    Natasha Lyonne Proves Obnoxious Real-Estate ClichéThat, of course, celebrities are able to find cheap, fantastic real estate when you can’t even find a place where the toilet is in the same room as the shower.
    By Chris Rovzar