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Q: My Manhattan co-op building somehow allowed a shareholder three floors above me to install HVAC units with drainage tubes that go through the exterior wall. A fluid purge, like turning on a faucet, periodically flows onto my private garden patio

August is spider season. The orb-weaver spiders in my yard spend winter tucked away in the egg sacs their mothers made for them in autumn. Come springtime, the spiderlings climb out of their egg sacs and promptly disappear. Lots of creatures will ea

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Q: I rent a market-rate apartment in a three-unit building in Queensbuddha bet, and my neighbor is setting up for major construction. To do the construction safely, they say they need to set up scaffolding on our building’s property in a way that wi