Anonymous

Here's what it's like to search for place to buy in NYC after a divorce, as told to Brick Underground.

A tenant has fought for repairs for her rent-stabilized apartment in Williamsburg for 13 years, even before rain brought her ceiling down.

The owner had dug out the basement to make it into livable space, but failed to put in any features to prevent flooding.

A New Yorker moves to 13th floor apartment in a Manhattan building with a slow elevator. Too high up to take the stairs often, she has to come up with other strategies.

A co-op board refuses to let a New Yorker buy a studio apartment for $155,000 by herself in the same co-op building she and her husband live unless her husband is a co-owner.

Learning to love living in Kensington, Brooklyn, even though the writer now dislikes her apartment.