Marjorie Cohen
Marjorie Cohen is a New York City-based freelance journalist, editor and author of over seven non-fiction books. Her real estate reporting has appeared in amNewYork, Investopedia, and The West Side Rag. Since moving to New York five decades ago for graduate school at the Teachers College of Columbia University, Marjorie has lived on the Upper West Side, with a brief detour to West 15th Street when she got six months free rent in a new building. Her current apartment is rent-stabilized and she is never, ever, going to willingly leave it.
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It's a YouTube world, and that goes for your apartment too.
“I get more e-mails and web hits from video marketed properties than any other," says Manhattan real estate broker Brian Lewis of Halstead Property.
When BrickUnderground set out to answer the question “What are the safest and least safe places to live in a building?” we went directly to our expert on security matters, Harry J. Houck, President of Houck Consulting, Inc and a retired NYPD detective.
According to Houck, because of their easy access (and in some cases their hidden nature), these are probably the least safe places to live in a building:
We asked seven kids, ages 6 to 15, what they'd want in an apartment if the decision were up to them—a kid's version of our Room for Improvement column. Some wanted something cozy, others wanted something huge, and almost all of them wanted to be able to play sports and eat sweets.
Here's what they had to say:
Want to know what turns landlords off and push the reject button on renters? Well, so do we, so we decided to ask one.
A friend referred us to Brooklyn landlord Chris Athineos.
His family has owned small rental buildings in Bay Ridge, Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights for almost 50 years and family members make all the rental decisions themselves--because, says Athineous, "it's too important a decision to leave to a broker."
Those of you who've never bothered to put window screens in your apartment--or apply flea and tick repellent to your urban dog--may want to re-think that.
NYC's pest control experts agree that as a consequence of our mild winter, you can expect to see more insects inside as well as out--including mosquitoes, ants and water bugs.
Here's what to expect:
Mosquitoes: Mosquitoes won't be here early because they never left. New Yorkers from East Harlem to the Village have seen mosquitoes and reported horrific bites all winter long.
