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Every building in New York City is a neighborhood unto itself, each one with a distinct vibe and community, governed by laws both codified (see: co-ops) and unspecified (see: how residents in a building just happen to know to avoid a specific dryer in the basement because it gets so hot it practically cooks your clothing). Essentially, you could make a full-fledged documentary about each one and have more than enough material. Is it the same elsewhere?
Hey, how about a gentrification story that makes you laugh instead of curl up into a ball of hysterical sobs? Buzzfeed's "Handy Guide to Gentrification" is more of a questionnaire, really—complete with accompanying cartoons—that's ostensibly for those on the lookout for the "next best" place to live — perhaps the "yuccies" (aka "young urban creatives") memorably described by Mashable.
Some real estate listing photos are out of focus and others are just awkward (a close-up of the bathroom sink but no bedroom pics?). And plenty more are simply laughably bad. Andy Donaldson, the man behind the Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs blog and book, specializes in finding the latter.
Pining for a house in Brooklyn feels almost cliché. To which we say: So what? There’s a reason it’s become shorthand. But a house in Brooklyn for under two million? As it appears, not such a dream, after all. These properties are all hosting open houses this weekend, and with price tags that — by New York standards, anyway — don’t seem painfully out of reach.
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