Lucy Cohen Blatter

Sure, there are lots of Brooklyn neighborhoods that are more exciting, but we still love Park Slope. The restaurants! The brownstone-heavy streets! And yes, the park! That's one of the reasons we're drawn to this $2,300 studio, which is Brooklyn-charm personified.

For New York City-dwellers looking for more space for less money and access to the outdoors, there are four places they usually go: Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut or New Jersey. This week we're turning our attention to Long Island, via Douglas Elliman's second quarter market report for the area.

"One-way streets are all about speed," says The Atlantic's CityLab blog. As a result, turning one-way streets into two-way streets can make them safer, at least according to a new report. So should our city, which is teeming with one-ways, consider changing things up?

There's a misconception that Hamptons houses, like Manhattan homes, are only attainable by the one percent. But as the latest Douglas Elliman market report for the area shows, the median price of a Hamptons home is actually well under a million — $849,000 to be exact (down 6.5 percent from the same time last year).

If you can make sense of these photos, you may spot some good bones in this $1,995 one-and-a-half bedroom in Greenwood, Brooklyn.