​Well, there goes your dream of living like Truman Capote, or at least in his former dwelling. The Brooklyn Heights home where Capote wrote his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's sold for about $12 million, an amount that constitutes what the Daily News calls the "highest price for a single-family home in borough history." Holly Golightly must be impressed.

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​As part of his State of the City speech yesterday, Mayor Mike Bloomberg -- in a discussion about revenue -- said the city plans to sell three Lower Manhattan properties. It was just a few sentences, but it gave Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer a chance today to remind us all that his position, often seen as somewhat nebulous, does in fact matter.

Bloomberg broke the news while discussing how he would finance the many initiatives he outlined in his speech. He said that this year he will put up for sale three city-owned buildings (22 Reade Street, 49-51 Chambers Street, and 346 Broadway), which he anticipates will bring more than $100 million next year for the capital budget, $100 million in private sector tax revenue, and cost savings over the next 20 years. The properties are currently occupied by city agencies, including Corrections, City Planning, Parks and also Community Board 1, all of which would be relocated.

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​Last night Patti Smith was at the beleaguered Chelsea Hotel, playing what appears to have been a new-hotel-management-planned event to which tenants were not invited, but the architect and others were. New hotel management, for the record, is King & Grove, "a new lifestyle hotel brand defined by modern luxury with eclectic influences" (the photo at right is from last night's event). Tonight, Smith is scheduled to perform for the tenants, a move evoking a flurry of criticism from none other than her intended audience. "It's like a chocolate-covered cow pie," said Arthur Nash, 39, an archivist and writer who has lived at the hotel since 2005, to the New York Times. "It's momentarily sweet, but then you get right back to the cow pie."

Smith has outlined the reasons for her involvement on her website, but her performance at the apparent behest of new hotel management does seem a hard pill to swallow. As Jeremiah's Vanishing New York puts it, it's still "hard to accept that Patti Smith is working with the developers who are gut renovating the Chelsea and evicting its tenants."

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​There's an UrbanBaby thread making its way around Internet circles, inspiring a sense of both depression and horror. It is about money, and how we feel about what we make, particularly in New York City, where we all seem to need a little bit more than people who live anywhere else. Despite the reminder not to judge in the thread's title -- "What's your hhi and do you FEEL poor, middle class, upper middle class or rich where you live. No judging" -- there is, most definitely, judging going on. But how can there not be when someone says (and, really, trolls or not, they did) that they are "poor" making $700,000 a year, or, "upper middle class" making 13 million a year?

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​According to NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's Worst Landlords Watch List, Manhattan's worst-run buildings are mostly in Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood. Forty five of the 56 Manhattan buildings on the list are in those areas. Four of the lowest performing five are in Harlem and one is in Washington Heights. Each of those has over 240 violations. The top five worst landlords are:

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That right there is the most expensive rental in New York, clocking in at a staggering $165,000 a month. The Astor Suite went on the market today and has three bedrooms, five bathrooms, a dining room, a library and an eat-in kitchen.

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​Courtney Love is going to be evicted from her house on West 10th Street for setting fires and destroying the decor, Page Six reports today. Love, who is 46 (!), is accused of painting over "hand-finished" walls -- the lease apparently stipulates that nothing be done to the interior -- and owing $50,000 in rent.

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Not sure who "wins" or "loses" in this competition, but Boston has a similarly narrow house to New York's narrowest house, except NYC's is narrower! Take that, Boston. Or...take that, New York?

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​We love tiny apartments here at Runnin' Scared. Be they 100, 90, or 78 square feet in area, we can't get enough of these adorable prison cells. Via Gizmodo comes the story of Eric Schneider, a teacher who bought a 450-square-foot studio apartment for $250,000. The space may be a tad bit bigger than the previous mini-apartments we've featured, but the multi-purpose Murphy bed he installed makes it something special. Watch the video after the jump to see how a cramped studio blooms like a beautiful lotus into a cramped one-bedroom apartment.

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​Curbed has rounded up some of the tiniest, shittiest little apartments in America. One of them is in New York City -- who would have thought? The apartment is on West 71st Street and is about 100 square feet. And it still costs a grand per month. At least the listing is honest:

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