A lowly commoner subjected to a life of walk-up rent stabilization shares her story of that one magical weekend she spent living in the Upper West Side's storied Ansonia?in a $4 million apartment while dog sitting for friends. Pluses: elevators, a washing machine and going through other people's garbage. Minuses: Broadway noise and the feeling that she "didn't quite belong." But doesn't everyone go through their neighbors' garbage? [Brick Underground]
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