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The article focuses on enhancing home automation by using smart lighting and doorbell features, allowing for convenient scheduling and sound effects to improve security and ambiance.

The article focuses on the housing crisis in New York City, attributing high prices to insufficient housing supply, and argues that building more homes is a more straightforward solution than other proposed measures.

The article focuses on the potential solution to homelessness by converting single-family houses into rooming houses, exemplified by the success of the PadSplit model in Houston, which offers affordable, furnished bedrooms for working-class Americans, addressing the shortage of cheap housing.

The article focuses on the potential advantages and considerations of installing an in-home elevator for aging homeowners, including its impact on property value, costs, and maintenance.

The article discusses what are called three-quarter houses in New York City that ostensibly assist drug addicts attempting to rehabilitate themselves. According to the article, the houses are unregulated and are often in poor condition and sometimes become drug dens. The article discusses businessman and three-quarter house owner and operator Yury Baumblit and New York City drug addict Horace Bush.

Presents information on how to arrive in Galena, Illinois from Chicago by land and air and three options in temporary lodgings for vacation trips. Prices and contact numbers.

Describes the author's experiences during his trip to Wisconsin Lake in Wisconsin. Outdoor recreation; Tourist attractions; Lodging facilities and cabins for travelers; Resorts, restaurants bars. INSET: Cozy cottages, kayaking and 95-cent cones..

Reports on the offer of a discounted rate at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grant Teton National Park in Wyoming in celebration of the 75th season of the park from September 15 to October 15, 2004. Rates and charges; Tax rates; Contact information.

The article offers information on the mourning for President Donald Trump and his family, with a private memorial service for the president's younger brother, Robert Trump.

The article focuses on Sir Shadow, a 70-year-old poet and artist who is one of the six men who are the final residents of the Whitehouse Hotel lodging house. His artistic life is intertwined with the building as nearly every hallway and boarding room contain his mural. He is also connected to the Durst family, particularly Anita Durst, who is a member of the oldest and most powerful real estate dynasties in New York.

The article offers travel tips for Appalachian Trail in northern New Hampshire and includes recommendations for dining, accommodations and activities.

The article offers travel tips for Prague in Czech Republic and includes recommendations for dining, accommodations and historical sites.

The article offers travel tips for Saint Barthelemy (St. Barts), a Caribbean island, and includes recommendations for lodging, buffet, and hiking.

The article reports on the growing popularity of non-traditional places that offer more interaction with nature among travelers and mentions the opening of the Lakedale Resort at Three Lakes in Washington.

The article offers information on the concerns of illegal flophouses in New York including investigation on Yury Baumblit for selling illegal houses, collection of Medicaid fees by Baumblit and presents the dilemma of people in the region to use the houses to avoid increasing homelessness.

The article offers travel tips for Argentina and includes information on the lodging, the improvement of air travel, and travel destinations.

The article presents corrections to articles including the article about bookstore destinations that was published in the December 11, 2016 issue, and the article about lodging and tours in Africa that was published in the December 18, 2016 issue.

The article reports on how Airbnb, an online marketplace which allows people to list or rent lodging in residential properties, helps architecture designers, and real estate enthusiasts in marketing and booking for rentals.

The article offers travel tips for Burgundy, France and includes recommendations for temple, lodging, and hotel.

The article focuses on the plan of the New York City Council to introduce legislations, which is aimed at regulating flophouses that carer people with mental illnesses, addicts, and those avoiding homeless shelters.

The article reports on the advertising campaign by the online home rental service HomeAway Inc. with its tag line "It's Your Vacation, Why Share It?" which depicts some of the awkward and annoying realities of shared-lodging arrangements.

The article discusses flophouses in New York City, focusing on the Andrews House, a cubicle hotel located on the Bowery in Manhattan. Rosanne Haggerty, who founded a nonprofit developer of supportive housing called Common Ground Community, hopes to use flophouses like the Andrews House to serve as first-step housing for the homeless.

The article focuses on the reinvention of one of the last surviving lodging houses in Manhattan, New York City, the Andrews House, by nonprofit real estate developer Rosanne Haggerty.

States Long Island law enforcement agents raided and closed a house in Farmingville, New York because it was an illegal rooming house that held about 64 male occupants. Investigation of other houses for illegal crowding in the blue-collar suburb; The issue of illegal immigrants in the region; Effort of homeowners to publicize the issue; The amount tenants paid for a bunk in the Framingville house; Charges against the owner, Rosalina Dias of Selden, for failing to comply with State Supreme Court orders.

Examines the lives of the last remaining tenants in a rooming house on West 22nd Street and 11th Avenue in New York City. Analysis of how the building has changed, and how their lifestyles remain the same; Review of the history of the building, that has an art gallery on the second floor and will soon open a club on the first floor; Comments from the tenants, one of which says that while buildings and neighborhoods change, people just grow older.

Features the town of Jerte River Valley in Spain. Description on the architectural design of the Castle of Oropesa; Number of lodging houses in the area; Population of the place. INSET: Trekking in Extremadura..

Features the Ikal del Mar seaside lodge in Mexico. Description of the landscape; Number of resort houses available; Convenience offered by the room service to honeymooners.

Presents an account of a stay at the Lodge at Pico Bonito near the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Cabins nestled at the foot of the Pico Bonito mountain; Tropical wildlife at the National Park; Fruit juices and delicacies; Boat ride; Banana port of La Ceibal; Travel information.

The article offers information on the rented lodging services provided by company, Airbnb, website for people to rent out lodging.

The article offers information on the Pikaia Lodge located in Santa Cruz Island in Galápagos Islands and the Poise and Grace program by J.W. Marriott hotel which features a series of ballet video tutorials led by Ashley Wheater, artistic director of ballet company Joffrey Ballet.

The article offers information on the opening of Hotel Dylan in Woodstock, New York which offers rooms with portraits of rock stars.

The article reports on several private and university clubs with reciprocal lodging agreement including the Royal Air Force Club in London, England, The Harvard Club in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Union Club in New York.

The article presents a guide to lodging that explores its interior design in the U.S.

OXFORD is not a college town -- it is the college town. Its namesake university's 38 colleges are so steeped in scholarly history they make Harvard and Yale seem like baby-faced freshmen. To wit: Oxford's New College was last considered ''new'' in the 14th century. (Even the obsolete term ''New World'' is newer.) Students here get into the act, many dressing in tweed coats, sometimes even with elbow patches, and ordering pints of cask ale at pubs that have been in business for nearly four-fifths of a millennium. But Oxford has a modern side, too: night spots blare house and electronic music; restaurants serve modern takes on local food and exotic ethnic cuisine; and comfortable boutique hotels and bed-and- breakfasts beat medieval lodging houses for comfort any day. (Just don't ask for a place to hitch your horse.) Friday [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quickest way to drive from the Washington, D.C., area to Savannah, Ga., is to steel your nerves, grit your teeth and high-tail it for nine and a half hours down the monotonous, multilane, McDonald's-laden highway called I-95. Looking for Southern culture? Try a McRib sandwich. But there's an alternative. It'll take you a lot longer - six days or so - but offers so much more: a mishmash of coastal and inland roads that form U.S. 17, from Winchester, Va., as far as Savannah. The route has one constant appeal - good barbecue - and, outside of gas expenses, it offers plenty of frugal options: bursts of Civil War history, alligator-filled wildlife reserves, old plantations and schlocky miniature golf courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ANY traveler to London this summer has no doubt scoured the listings of where to stay, where to eat and how to get around. But one resource that is probably overlooked is Londoners themselves, who during this time of high traffic will continue to rent out their resources to those on a budget strict enough that splurging for a night at a hotel -- even if available -- would be out of the question. Peer-to-peer lodging services like CouchSurfing and AirBnB are nothing new, but Bed&Fed (bedandfed.co.uk) offers a bit more at a bargain. This two-year-old service supplies home stays with hosts who will save a seat at the family dinner table for their guest. Many of the 275 host homes are farmhouses or historic buildings in rural Britain and Ireland -- there are 10 in and around London -- and average $:35, or $55, at $1.56 to the pound, per person, a night. Bookings are up in this Olympics-inflated market, but anyone landing in one of these home stays will find hosts who tend to be social and love to cook, according to the Bed&Fed founder, Annabella Forbes, who says her mission ''is to promote friendliness.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LIKE Kep, many coastal idylls are discovered, lost, and then found again. Sometimes it is the end of a civil war or political turmoil that puts them back in commission. In other instances, new or repaired infrastructure makes them more accessible. Here are a few destinations that have recently reentered the travel mix. BAZARUTO AND QUIRIMBAS ARCHIPELAGO, MOZAMBIQUE A civil war that left just under a million dead and lasted 16 years until 1992 kept these two groups of islands off limits for years. Bazaruto, to the south and off the coast from Vilankula, had formerly been a destination for Portuguese and South African vacationers; Quirimbas had not been developed at all until recently. Today low-density resorts combine pristine ecosystems with luxury lodging for visitors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN Tom Cataldi had to leave his hurricane-damaged house in Philadelphia in September, he was definitely not up for camping out, even temporarily. He wanted all the comforts of home in his new lodgings -- and more, with no distractions. ''I had to oversee the repairs, but I also had to do my job,'' said Mr. Cataldi, 44, human resources manager for a global investment company, whose house walls were buckling from rain dumped by Hurricane Irene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DEL MAR, Calif. -- The golfer Miguel Angel Carballo sat contentedly in the middle of the kitchen before dinner while his entourage buzzed around him. His manager kneaded dough for pizza. His caddie chopped basil and tomatoes. Shuffling between them, topping the wine glasses, was his swing coach. The fellowship in the room was like yeast, making the others' voices rise as Carballo quietly turned his gaze from one familiar face to the next. It was the Tuesday before Carballo's third PGA Tour start and he was weary from playing 32 holes -- all that daylight would allow -- at Torrey Pines in an effort to acclimate himself to unfamiliar terrain. His lodging in this upscale beach city also felt alien to him: a four-bedroom trilevel modern California home, with sweeping canyon views that completed a picture his mind's eye never could have conceived. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A room for a midweek night starts at $695 and can soar up to $4,500 for a suite, but this particular hotel on Central Park South may have a problem commonly, if unfairly, associated with more low-rent lodging -- bedbugs. And it may also have a bigger issue -- grumbling workers. A worker at the hotel, the Ritz-Carlton New York, said that a guest in Room 1005 reported to the front desk on Sunday that she had discovered a bedbug in her room. The guest then checked out, but not before producing a specimen of the bug, a wingless six-legged bloodsucker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hotel lobby buzzes like any other in New York on a weekday morning, as families from around the world excitedly examine maps, while bellhops in khaki pants and polo shirts give directions and load luggage carts. But this hotel lobby is different. And not just because of its five glittering chandeliers or the three-story marblelike columns that trumpet an earlier age. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE UPSHOT Tune Hotel Westminster is pitched as the lodging equivalent of no-frills airlines like Ryanair. Room rates are low (as low as $:9 or about $14 at $1.56 to the pound, if you book way in advance; a more typical rate is $:45, or $70), but the hotel nickel and dimes you for almost everything except the bed sheets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The phrase bed and breakfast often conjures images of stuffy homes filled with dusty doilies and collections of wide-eyed dolls. But the B&B industry and its standards have evolved. Say goodbye to the days of squeaky beds and frivolous throw pillows and embrace the shift toward classically elegant and strikingly modern retreats. Whether you prefer attentive or hands-off service, accommodations steeped in history or an urban atmosphere, there is a (feather-topped or custom-built) bed and a (candlelit or grab-and-go) breakfast that fits your needs. High Design in Austin [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On the Bowery, on the second floor of an ancient flophouse, nine men pay less than $10 a night to sleep in cramped cubicles topped with chicken wire. Half the stalls in their shared bathroom are missing doors, and their halls are lined with spooky rows of empty cubicles whose last occupants either took off or died off. Directly above them, on the third and fourth floors, stylish young men and women pay $62 to $129 a night for a refined version of the gritty experience below. Their cubicles have custom-made mattresses and high-end sheets. Their shared bathrooms have marble sinks and heated floors. Their towels are Ralph Lauren. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Years ago, a new worker or an employee visiting the home office for a week or two might be put up in a bare-bones company-owned apartment. But those apartments were challenging, and expensive, to manage. So, many businesses have turned to corporate housing companies, which provide a variety of fully equipped lodging -- from small studio spaces to multibedroom apartments for families -- with increasing services and amenities. At the same time, corporate housing companies have had to learn how to ride the ups and downs of the economy, increasing their inventory in boom times and constricting it when the economy weakens. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Best Western has announced that this week it is designating two upscale tiers under its brand. In addition to Best Western, travelers now will be able to reserve rooms in Best Western Plus and Best Western Premier. ''This is a major change,'' said Dorothy Dowling, senior vice president of marketing and sales for Best Western International. With more than 2,200 North American properties in diverse locations - from seaside resorts to highway roadsides - and ranging in price from $59 to $500 a night, Best Western found that its customers did not know what level of lodging to expect, Ms. Dowling said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE dour, run-down office building at Seventh Avenue and 36th Street looks little different from its gritty garment center neighbors. But it is earlier than almost all of them by a decade, built in 1907 by Darius Ogden Mills as a model lodging house for working-class men, and now it appears headed for landmark designation. Mr. Mills, a railroad man and banker, died with $36 million, but was not blind to the misfortunes of others. In the 1890s he visited London and saw the Rowton Houses, large, barracklike low-cost lodgings for working men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ON a humid morning in Panama City earlier this year, three Americans, two Swedes, two Portuguese, two Irish and three Israelis sat down together for breakfast. The diverse group was united by a single interest: free pancakes, a standard perk at Luna's Castle Hostel in the city's historic district. The American-inspired meal, along with the international crowd it attracted, is typical of the growing multicultural presence in this country, which is drawing foreign visitors as well as entrepreneurs -- including the three Americans who run the mini-empire of hostels in Panama that includes Luna's. Emboldened by low costs, easy access to imported products and the power of strong word of mouth, new businesses founded by American expatriates are popping up all over the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

OPEN the door to a small hotel on the Bowery. A small hotel, catering to Asian tourists, that used to be a flophouse that used to be a restaurant. That used to be a raucous music hall owned by a Tammany lackey called Alderman Fleck, whose come-hither dancers were known for their capacious thirsts. That used to be a Yiddish theater, and an Italian theater, and a theater where the melodramatic travails of blind girls and orphans played out. That used to be a beer hall where a man killed another man for walking in public beside his wife. That used to be a liquor store, and a clothing store, and a hosiery store, whose advertisements suggested that the best way to avoid dangerous colds was ''to have undergarments that are really and truly protectors.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]