My friends’ apartment is currently up for voting in Apartment Therapy’s Smallest Coolest Apartments 2007 contest. If you have an account for AT, go vote.

According to the New York Post, part of Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to create more space for housing in New York City could involve building on top of the BQE.

I live in one of the buildings behind the caption bubble.

As I mentioned in the ephemera, Met life is selling Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village for a proposed $5 billion dollars. That price tag would make it the largest real estate deal involving the purchase of a single property in America in modern times.

Nearly two-thirds of the apartments currently have regulated rents at half the market rate. This will be a definite blow to advocates of affordable housing in New York.

Amy Fox, my next door neighbor senior year of college, wrote a wonderful article for the New York Times on the battle her grandparents and other residents fought to integrate Stuy Town in the 1950s. The article is behind the TimesSelect wall, but a slide show of wonderful photos is still available with Amy narrating.