Teri Karush Rogers

About a year ago, Buyfolio.comlaunched as a nifty online tool for NYC apartment buyers, enabling them to organize, annotate, and track sales listings, and even invite their brokers to collaborate.  

This pre-war two-bedroom, one-bath co-op at 760 West End Avenue (between West 97th and West 98th Streets) is currently being renovated, and will be delivered with a brand-new kitchen, including dining alcove. The apartment has high ceilings and pre-war detailing, and three rooms overlook West End Avenue. Each room is reasonably spacious. The building has a full-time doorman, live-in super, and storage room. The apartment, #5A, was first listed 12 days ago for $899,000.

Unlike co-op and condo owners, renters depend on the goodwill, sophistication, and proactiveness of their landlord and management company when it comes to controlling the spread of bed bugs in their building.   As BrickUnderground's Bedbugged! series chronicles, that's a pretty vulnerable position to be in. Tenants often must band together to get their landlord to focus on the problem and bring the right tools to bear on it.  

[Updated 2:01 pm: We have just received word that instead of taking place tonight, the forum has been rescheduled for Feb. 23rd due to weather concerns.] If you are feeling oppressed by your co-op or condo board, you may want to head to the Upper West Side this evening for a forum hosted by New York State Assemblymember Linda B.

What started as an UWS  vs UES debate on StreetEasy.com (not for nothing, the UWS is trouncing the UES on a parks-and-transportation basis) has taken a sly comic turn, as one commenter deftly satirizes the differences as follows:

UES: "My children are smart and good looking."

UWS: "My children are smart."

UES: "I have a very attractive wife who stays in great shape."