Emily Nonko

These five Bronx neighborhoods offer great park space, architecture, comparatively affordable real estate, and decent commutes into Manhattan. Your next apartment may be right here.

By now (we hope), any New Yorker with a dim sum habit knows to take the 7 train to the end of the line to land square in the middle of New York's most vibrant Chinatown. The Chinese-immigrant population of Flushing has long surpassed that of Manhattan's Chinatown, and while the neighborhood is known as a stronghold for incoming immigrants, it's also a place of incredible change, particularly as outer-borough real estate hype starts to seep further into Queens. Residential and commercial real estate development is booming here, and the nearby mega-development Willets Point is nearly underway. All of this construction promises to transform the fabric of a neighborhood that is very much in transition.

Now that many of us have made the switch to incandescents and compact flourescents comes word from the New York Times about a new type of low-cost LED lights available to the public. General Electric has announced the new “Bright Stik” brand of light bulbs which for G.E., per the Times, "are a way for cost-conscious consumers to finally move away from the much-criticized compact fluorescents.”