Lucy Cohen Blatter

Is it just us or does this $2,500 Upper West Side brownstone apartment have a "You've Got Mail" kind of feel? We could see Meg Ryan's character living in this sweet second floor walk-up, typing away to Tom Hanks from the bed in that tiny bedroom.

The apartment, which has been on the market throughout the entire summer, is a co-op, which might explain the hold-up. The co-op board likely has to approve all tenants, and since this is a small building, we'd imagine they're picky about who lives there.

Craigslist's real estate section gets a bad rap, albeit somewhat deservedly, for being full of rental scams and bait-and-switches, but unfortunately bad listings are not confined to one website. Last week, an NYC broker—we'll call her G.—reached out to us to report suspicious activity she and her colleagues have allegedly seen on StreetEasy.

A Park Slope two-bedroom for $1070 a month—way below the $3,000 a month median rent? There are two affordable housing units of that size up for grabs at this new 17-unit building at 65 Park Place, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

It's starting to feel like fall here in the city, but you'd probably stretch summer out a little longer if you rented this $2,310 studio in Hunters Point, Queens, which comes with an envy-inducing private terrace (in a building with multiple outdoor spaces).

By now we all know that New York City's housing market is one of the country's—not to mention the world's—most expensive, so when we saw that financial website NerdWallet ranked its affordability 92 out of 100 (100 being the least affordable), we weren't exactly surprised. (Note: San Francisco is actually less affordable than our fair city is, ranking 95th.)