Tag: APARTMENT

We already knew that a BlackBerry can stop a speeding bullet, but does your phone necessarily have to be "smart" in order to save your life? Juan Camarena found out the hard way, during a recent Harlem shootout. Camarena, a 54-year-old handyman at a Harlem apartment building, recently found himself in an inexplicably heated argument with the disgruntled former super of the building. Camarena, ...

Yes, here's another sign of the evil ways of Facebook -- or good ways, depending on your perspective. Just one day after hearing that a man may be denied disability payments thanks to time spent on the social networking site, we learn of a story out of the U.K. in which a young couple was booted from their apartment after online pics of a crazy party were found (on Facebook, of course) by their ...

As if the gulf between rich and poor wasn't obvious enough... 200 Eleventh Avenue, a new super luxury residence setting up shop across from Chelsea Piers in New York City, is boasting about its exclusive personal car elevator system. When you drive in to the elevator, dubbed the "En-suite Sky Garage," it takes you and your wheels up to the private 300-square-foot garage connected to your ...

Craigslist is great when it comes to unloading junk or buying someone else's, but for browsing apartment listings it bites harder than dogs on mailman limbs. HousingMaps.com made the experience more intuitive by combining Craigslist apartment listings in North America with Google Maps, in what's known as a mashup -- two Web services (usually) combined by a third party to make an entirely new ...