The best view of New York City might just be in a near-windowless conference room on the 12th floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building. Splayed across 10 folding tables, a map pieced together ...

For decades, game studios have spent big bucks attempting to digitize our real cities for their games. Grand Theft Auto captured the sprawl of NYC and L.A. Watch Dogs paid homage to the El, lift ...

But calling real estate in all of New York City super expensive is to miss the point. There's plenty of affordable real estate in the city, as long as you don't mind a long commute (or New Jersey).

A clever set of new maps produced by the website SpareFoot, which writes about real estate and other topics, uses census data on population and land area to illustrate just how spread out Seattle ...