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Make-Or-Break Vote Looms For Brooklyn Botanic Garden Shadow-Casting Towers
Continuum Company is asking for approval to build residential development up to 34 stories within about 150 feet from the botanical garden.

Continuum Company is asking for approval to build residential development up to 34 stories within about 150 feet from the botanical garden.

The city's median one-bedroom cost is only $40 below San Francisco's, and its rent costs are rising more rapidly, a Zumper report found.

The number of homes for sale in these three boroughs also hit a record high, according to a new study from StreetEasy.
With more than $2 billion in rent relief still not reaching tenants, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state will "streamline" applications.
Out of 180 cities in a recent WalletHub study, New York City ranked 109th — and near the bottom on affordability and cost of living.
A new report ranking 150 of the country's metropolitan areas put New York City at number 118.
Residential sales bounced back 88 percent compared to the pandemic's height, with Hudson Yards as the priciest neighborhood, study finds.
“Things are very fragile,” said Salzhauer. “It will take six months to two years to find a new equilibrium.”
Home prices are up more than 10 percent in the New York City area since the pandemic began.
"People move here and they don’t even know what the building looks like," a neighbor said of a 15-year-old scaffold.
More than 100 bridges were found to be in poor condition.
The building currently has 61 “immediately hazardous” housing code violations, HPD’s records show, including rat infestation.
Struggling to pay rent through the coronavirus pandemic? A $2.7 billion pot of rent relief is now up for grabs.
Struggling tenants across the state can apply for relief starting June 1, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
The city’s rent prices inched upward in April for the first time in a year, a new StreetEasy study found. But prices could remain low.
The coronavirus pandemic and other factors have shaken up the rental market. See how things have changed in New York City area.
The City Council voted to speed up a program that gives tenants access to an attorney in housing court. Here's what you need to know.
Cash-strapped residential and commercial tenants will get more breathing room until the end of August.
Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership's Q1 real estate report shows signs of recovery from the pandemic's economic impacts
Prospective renters still have some time to take advantage of low rents but deals won't last forever, experts say.
A study shows that one-bedroom homes near this train station have had the largest rent increases in the city.
The price for one-bedrooms fell at 88 percent of all MTA stops across the five boroughs, according to a new RentHop study.
Landlords have kept more than 50 percent of unrented Manhattan apartments off the market in hopes they can raise prices later.
Home prices are expected to stay elevated for the near future. They have increased in Manhattan area.
Firefighters were still on the scene Wednesday, and investigators said much of the damage could have been avoided.
A new tool by openigloo aims to help New Yorkers negotiate fair leases by comparing apartments' rent against their neighborhood's average.
Areas hit hardest by the virus, largely Black and Latino neighborhoods, have the most eviction cases in NYC, the New York Times reports.
A massive lawsuit accuses dozens of landlords of blatantly refusing to rent to New Yorkers with housing vouchers.
A new app hopes to make landlord horror stories a thing of the past.
Even as home prices hit years-long lows, New Yorkers still need to make $100,000 a year to afford house payments, another study found.
Residential sales volume in New York City jumped 40 percent during the end of 2020, according to a new report.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city in 2020 created the second-most affordable housing units in its history.
That’s because so many people combined apartments or homes into one dwelling, the total for new housing dipped below zero, according to ...
Some families have to be sued for eviction before they can get help paying rent.
His plan blew up when the tenant who had moved into the unit he formerly occupied stopped paying rent in the summer of 2019.
Despite a mass exodus during the pandemic, many apartment buildings are not listing all available apartments.
Layers of legal cases and needed approvals, complicated by COVID-19-related shutdowns, have come between King and a new landlord.
WHEDco and BFC Partners fully lease development's 305 affordable homes amid pandemic, as cultural and commercial components near completion
“Renters may find that today’s deals won’t be around tomorrow,” a new UrbanDigs report states.
Dozens of homeowners and owners of small buildings have reached out to THE CITY with questions about how to stay afloat.