The Daily News scored an exclusive account of life inside the Economakis building on East 3rd Street-- their intern Barry Paddock happens to be one of the tenants getting evicted: "In eviction papers, they laid out a plan to combine our cramped but beloved rent-stabilized apartments into a suburban-style mansion. Apartments on my floor would be demolished and replaced by a hanging walkway overlooking their new two-story living room." Bonus fact: the Economakis family paid......

Forget blowing your savings on a generic luxury condo. The NY Times has the story of a family who found their non-high rise dream home in the Bronx. Marcel and Sherrie Deans located their future home in June 2006, while driving through the Bronx (they rented in Harlem at the time). Their diamond in the rough, a mansion, was right there on Anthony Avenue. The Deanses first saw the 16-room, 3,300-square-foot landmarked home in 2006......