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My three-story walk-up apartment in the West Village has some dreamy qualities: original exposed brick walls, classic crown molding, and a claw-foot tub.Perhaps best of all, it’s rent-stabilized, meaning annual rent increases are capped, and tenants retain the right to renew the lease each year.Rent for the one-bedroom, 380-square-foot space is about $2,000 a month. It feels like a steal considering it’s rare to find even a studio apartment in this desirable neighborhood for under $3,000 a month.I’ve been here most of my life, as this apartment is where I was raised with my dad and stepmother. When I tell…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Margo Fairchild, 34, who built a 240-square-foot tiny home in Virginia on her own in 2020. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I grew up watching my dad work with his hands, mostly on cars, and I picked up a bit of resourcefulness and that get-it-done attitude from him.So, when I decided I wanted to live in a tiny home, it never really crossed my mind to have someone else build it for me. Maybe that was partly because of the expense, but after spending a few years researching…

Wherever volatile fuel prices head this year, don’t expect bargain flights.Airfare in the U.S. in June was up 26.5% compared with a year earlier, according to the latest federal data.Airline leaders say customers continue to book even after carriers hiked fares. They told Wall Street analysts this month that they’re expecting to hold onto that pricing power at least through the rest of the year, if not longer.Traveler Marjorie Aran said she and her husband paid a combined $800 to go from New York to Chicago in economy on United Airlines this week to visit their daughter.”We used to go…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Laura Vandemark Lynch, in her 50s, based in Long Island, New York.I was an office manager for a multi-specialty healthcare provider for two and a half years. Then, in March 2025, the company reorganized and let several middle managers go, including me.It was shocking because I felt like I had done so much in that particular office. But to be honest, while I was upset about my job being terminated, I was also relieved.As a person in my late 50s working mostly with younger people, it felt like there were a…

I got married in April of 2000 after living with my now-ex-husband for several years. At the time, I made a good living from my job in advertising, and like many of my colleagues, I’d been doing freelance work on the side for years.In 2001, my husband and I became proud homeowners, one of the many Americans who used a subprime mortgage in the early 2000s to finance our first home, all my idea. We even leased a new car that year.Then came 9/11. Amidst the tragedy, the advertising industry ground to a halt. When I got laid off that…

Around 7:15 am on Thursday, a photographer in a golf cart trailed a gaggle of young runners in matching black shirts through the southern corner of Central Park. This wasn’t some Instagram-ready Gen Z run club, but had potentially as much virality, if not more, since Jon Gray, Blackstone’s president and unlikely short-form video star, was leading the pack.I joined Gray and more than 110 interns, first-year analysts, and pre-MBA summer associates for a group run — and yes, it really was a run, since even those of us at the back kept a pace of 9:22 per mile, according…

If you feel like your messages are getting lost in the void, you may be onto something.Executives are often bombarded with many sales pitches and introductions every day — and that makes it difficult to stand out with a cold outreach. Becca Millstein, cofounder and CEO of the trendy tinned seafood company Fishwife, said she misses many of the messages she receives on LinkedIn.”I don’t respond to DMs because I don’t see them, or it’s just too much,” Millstein told Business Insider.Millstein, who cofounded the company in 2020, said it’s become increasingly difficult for candidates to stand out by sending…

Caleb Ashton’s journey into the resale business was, like many who start out in that industry, humble.Ashton began flipping items — textbooks, action figures, golf clubs, sneakers, and more — while living with his wife in a one-bedroom apartment in 2019. He was eager to create an extra source of income while his wife attended law school.In true millennial fashion, he learned how to buy and resell items from YouTube videos.”I started with a budget of 500 bucks that I had cobbled together from birthday and Christmas money. That was my startup seed money,” Ashton, 31, told Business Insider.”I initially…

DoorDash’s delivery robots need a hand.Some workers in areas where DoorDash is using its Dot delivery robot are receiving offers through the DoorDash app to load them up. While the vehicles can navigate miles to delivery destinations, it’s the few feet between a restaurant’s pickup counter and the curb outside where delivery workers intervene.Devena Bybee, a DoorDash gig worker in Mesa, Arizona, said that she received one such offer in early July. The company is using the robots to make deliveries in the Phoenix area.Bybee drove about two miles to a restaurant, picked up an order, and placed it in…

At 6 a.m. every morning, I gather fresh eggs, check the vegetable garden, breathe in the cool North Florida air, watch my dogs race across five acres, and walk into my home office to begin a virtual meeting with a client.Five years ago, my mornings began very differently.Before sunrise, I had already left my home in Miami and was in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Interstate 95. My commute to my job, which began as a fitness director and advanced to acting spa director and later as spa director at another facility, had stretched from 35 to 50 minutes, plus a 20-minute…