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Greenwich Village has been in the news a lot lately with the recent confirmation from the state's appellate court that New York University's expansion plans can proceed. For those wanting to move in before all the construction starts up, here are for-sale apartments available for your viewing this weekend:
For a while now, everyone it seems has sung praises of "tiny home" owners—those who have thrown off the shackles of regular apartments and houses and opted instead to shrink their footprints. It's an admirable choice, for sure, for many reasons, not all of them environmental. For those of us still struggling with Marie Kondo's "pare down" movement, those who live in tiny houses are downright miracle workers.
No, that headline's not hyperbole: according to Refinery29's recent story on millennial women's apartment-hunting habits—fueled by results from a Rent.com survey data of 1000 renters—a lot of millenial women would literally rather give birth than deal with the apartment hunt. We suspect a lot of respondents would change their mind after, y'know, actually dealing with childbirth, but still. It's dramatic.
As BrickUnderground readers know, our fundamental mission is to help current and future New Yorkers learn everything they need to know about renting, buying, and selling real estate here. Starting today, you can also launch your apartment search from any page of BrickUnderground by clicking the green TripleMint property search button at the top and right-hand side of every page to start buying, selling or renting.
Think the Craiglist apartment photos you've seen are bad? Check out this week's batch from Andy Donaldson, the man behind the addictive Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs blog and book, who adds his own spin to these unfortunately very real sales pics.