Ruth Golod

Source: The Hunt: Out of the Nest, Into a Studio

With a budget of $300,000, one Long Island resident went on the hunt for a Manhattan apartment.

Source: Habitats | Park Slope, Brooklyn: When a House Is Not Exactly a Home

Christine McKeon matches people with houses, and yet the grand Brooklyn town house her family is renting for more than $7,000 a month is not really her style at all.

I just came across a great article on the last bastion of real estate “deals” in the US today. The The Day article focuses on a handful of cities across the United States and compares what you can get for $220,000, the national median home price. Topping the list? Binghamton New York. Median home prices in Binghamton are $93,000. So for $220,000 you can pick up a couple of houses and have almost $40,000 to furnish them or buy beer for. But, I am sure you can find these same deals all across up-state New York as the economies in those cities has never really seemed to flourish like they once did. However, according to the article, local real estate agents in up-state New York cities are claiming that with the low 4.7% unemployment rate, the real estate markets up there are starting to “see some bounce.” Whatever the case may be, it makes you wonder what you can get in between New York City and Binghamton prices.

Source: The Changing Landscape Of Roosevelt Island

The 800-foot-wide, two-mile-long sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens is undergoing a transformation that could alter its image and thrust it in the public eye.