Real Estate

The entrance to a West Harlem Single Residence Occupancy building was boarded up after the Department of Housing Preservation and Development deemed it unsafe.

How NYC’s Unpaid Property Tax System Has Left Some Harlem Tenants in the Lurch

June 28, 2024, 5:00 a.m.June 29, 2024, 7:52 a.m.

Residents of a Sugar Hill rowhouse could lose their home when the derelict and foreclosed property goes to auction. It doesn’t have to be this way, advocates say.

Housing

City of No Way: Meet the Urban Planner Rallying New Yorkers Against Eric Adams’ Housing Agenda

June 13, 2024, 5:00 a.m.June 13, 2024, 10:29 a.m.

Paul Graziano says he’s out to save the boroughs’ suburban-style neighborhoods and has a track record of locking out development. Now he’s determined to cut the mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ plan down to size.

City Council

Rental Broker Fee Bill Nears Veto-Proof as Council Hears Raucous Public Reactions

June 12, 2024, 3:56 p.m.June 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m.

The FARE Act has 33 ers in the City Council so far, but Speaker Adrienne Adams has yet to say if she’ll call a vote on the controversial measure to ban forced fees for apartment-hunters.

Rent

What to Know About New York’s Latest Attempt to End Forced Broker Fees for Renters

June 11, 2024, 5:00 a.m.June 11, 2024, 7:32 a.m.

Who’s ing the legislation, and who’s against it? What happens next?

A PAC paid for campaign literature for Assembly incumbent Stefani Zinerman.

Elections

Backed by Real Estate Interests, a PAC Touting Women Leaders Targets Pro-Tenant Candidates

June 10, 2024, 5:02 a.m.June 10, 2024, 1:50 p.m.

New York Women Lead, which is funded by major real estate players, is spending heavily to defeat candidates backed by the Working Families Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.

The Boys and Girls Club on Hoe Avenue in The Bronx was set to close.

South Bronx

Haven for Bronx Kids That Hosted Historic Gang Peace Summit Faces Shutdown

May 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m.May 15, 2024, 7:44 p.m.

The Madison Boys and Girls Club is planning to shutter the clubhouse that’s served as a safe haven for generations of South Bronx residents and that supposedly set the stage for the birth of hip-hop.

Brooklyn

Derelict Clinton Hill Building a Monument to Hochul Official’s Failed Intervention

May 15, 2024, 5:05 a.m.March 20, 2025, 2:45 p.m.

Walter Mosley, New York’s new secretary of state, stopped the sale of the government-owned Fulton Street structure a decade ago when he served in the Assembly. Now neighbors are trying again to revive it.

Google purchased office space on the site of the old St. John’s Terminal near Hudson River Park in Hudson Square.

Real Estate

Google’s New HQ Opens With Only a Fraction of the Nearby Low-Cost Housing Promised by Pols

May 14, 2024, 5:00 a.m.May 13, 2024, 3:37 p.m.

City Council votes to approve tax breaks for 175 apartments for the elderly, just a fraction of the 500 low-cost apartments local leaders promised a decade ago for the tony spot on Hudson River Park.

Pedestrians walk past the Carnegie House on West 57th Street.

Real Estate

Manhattan Co-op in Crisis Spearheads Push to Cap Land Rent Hikes

May 13, 2024, 4:59 a.m.May 12, 2024, 12:09 p.m.

Apartment owners from across the city went to Albany this week to push bills to limit how much landlords can charge for building leases, with a boost from Billionaires’ Row residents.

Two people walk together down a residential block in Jamaica.

Housing

Neighborhoods That Most Need Basement Apartment Legalization Left Out of State Pilot

April 29, 2024, 5:00 a.m.April 28, 2024, 11:46 a.m.

Six of 15 districts in the program to allow subterranean apartment conversions are in Manhattan, a borough with only 1% of the city’s basement and cellars in smaller homes.

Real Estate

How NYC’s Unpaid Property Tax System Has Left Some Harlem Tenants in the Lurch

City of No Way: Meet the Urban Planner Rallying New Yorkers Against Eric Adams’ Housing Agenda

Rental Broker Fee Bill Nears Veto-Proof as Council Hears Raucous Public Reactions

What to Know About New York’s Latest Attempt to End Forced Broker Fees for Renters

Backed by Real Estate Interests, a PAC Touting Women Leaders Targets Pro-Tenant Candidates

Haven for Bronx Kids That Hosted Historic Gang Peace Summit Faces Shutdown

Derelict Clinton Hill Building a Monument to Hochul Official’s Failed Intervention

Google’s New HQ Opens With Only a Fraction of the Nearby Low-Cost Housing Promised by Pols

Manhattan Co-op in Crisis Spearheads Push to Cap Land Rent Hikes

Neighborhoods That Most Need Basement Apartment Legalization Left Out of State Pilot

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