It may look like an attractive option: renting a home until you have enough money to buy it. But there are traps everywhere.

A one-bedroom in the chic Sainte-Avoye district, a converted loft in Batignolles and a ground-floor apartment in Porte Saint-Denis.

A delivery truck driver from Queens created a scale model of New York City. After 10 million views on TikTok, his mini Gotham has moved to Museum Mile.Joe Macken’s miniature model of New York City includes intentional anachronisms, such as the coexistence of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, and its successor, One World Trade Center.

Tim Heffernan, The Times’s D.I.Y. columnist, shows you how to adjust an existing picture frame so that it can work for smaller art.

The exterior of the brownstone where the famous poet lived the last 20 years of his life had deteriorated. Now the National Trust is undertaking a meticulous restoration.Langston Hughes bought a brownstone with two of his dear friends on East 127th Street in 1947.