Leigh Kamping-Carder

Q. My condo board recently informed residents that we need to submit a "permission to enter" form for every guest who stays over, identifying their names, addresses, and phone numbers. I've read that boards are allowed to require this kind of form, which gives building staff the right to let in guests when residents are out of town. But in our case the board is making no distinction between short-term Airbnb subletters (admittedly a problem in this building) and, say, a significant other spending the night or a relative crashing on the couch.

Wishing that Manhattan had more miniscule apartments isn’t our standard operating procedure, but we may have to rethink that. Once the go-to living set-up for cash-strapped New Yorkers, studios are getting a lot harder to find, and that's bad news for first-time buyers, the New York Daily News reports.

Yesterday, a three-floor penthouse at 10 Sullivan Street went on sale for $45 million, with marketers touting it as “the highest residence in Soho.” Residing on the top floor of a neighborhood’s tallest tower not only means never having to hear your upstairs neighbors—it also often means panoramic views, sky-scraping roofdecks, private elevators, and all the amenities you’d expect (gym, doorman, storage) from a large, luxury building. But in Soho, much of which is protected as a historic district, it doesn’t take much to tower over the neighborhood—16 stories, to be precise.

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