Julie Inzanti

After dealing with the hustle and bustle of the city day after day, don't you want to just climb into your treehouse and read comic books or grab some shut-eye among the birds?

One sleepy little detail we love in this $485K art-deco studio at 2 Grove Street in the West Village is the corner window seat that feels like a treehouse. The south/west exposures are elevated from street level, making it the perfect perch from which to disappear from the world and get lost in the trees....

We know an over-1,400-square-foot one-bedroom in New York sounds like a fantasy...but it can be your reality, at least for a little while.

Brokelyn is a web mag founded in May 2009 about all things Brooklyn -- from hyper-local goings-on and stoop sales to cheap eats and real estate deal. The content is written by contributors who live and work all over Brooklyn. 

Since starting in 2009, the blog has exploded. We got a chance to hear from one of the site’s editors, Dave Colon, who started as a contributor and is now the News Editor of Brokelyn. Dave is originally from Long Beach, and has been a resident of Bushwick for 5 years. 

Plenty of townhouses require upgrades and sometimes entire overhauls, but from what we can see, this $3.4 million Brooklyn Heights home at 152 Willow Street is in enviable ready-to-wear condition, featuring many clean, crisp, modern updates to the old-fashioned details. 

In a city of over 8 million people living on top of each other, the potential for disaster is skyscraping. We’ve fished around for a few of the more insane freak accidents apartment-dwellers in New York have experienced.....

1. Crushed by a Murphy bed. Yes, this really happened folks.

You've probably looked around your tiny apartment and considered the Murphy bed solution at one point or another.

After this you might reconsider. Or at least you will understand the value of licensed professionals and work permits.