Housing

Getting Your Apartment Security Deposit Back: A Guide for New York Tenants

Sept. 11, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 11, 2024, 5:11 p.m.

Document everything, understand the rules around “wear and tear” and know your rights if your landlord refuses to return your money.

An informal ment for basement apartments posted in Corona, Queens, July 24, 2024.

Housing

Three Years After Ida’s Deadly Rain, Protecting Basement-Dwellers Remains an Elusive Goal

Aug. 30, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Aug. 28, 2024, 3:05 p.m.

New York will soon have city and state codes to help make more below-ground dwellings legal. Residents still have to watch their emergency alerts and stormy skies to stay safe.

Housing

How Tenants Are Getting Rent Breaks as ‘Good Cause’ Kicks In

Aug. 23, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 6, 2025, 2:57 p.m.

Sometimes it takes as little as a phone call to reduce proposed rent increases — but housing lawyers warn that how cases will play out in court remains unpredictable.

Housing

Landlord Accused of Discriminating Against Voucher Holders Must Pay

Aug. 20, 2024, 4:40 p.m.Aug. 20, 2024, 5:28 p.m.

A settlement reached between Shamco Management Corp. and Attorney General Letitia James also requires the landlord to rent to people using Section 8, CityFHEPS and other subsidies.

Public Housing

NYCHA Residents in Coney Island Reject Move to Nonprofit Trust Fund

Aug. 16, 2024, 4:40 p.m.Aug. 18, 2024, 7:21 p.m.

The vote on Friday was a blow to City Hall’s goal of injecting public housing with cash by floating new bonds, after three other developments embraced that plan.

A tenement building sat near the Ditmas Boulevard station in Astoria.

Rent

Landlords Tens of Thousands More Rent-Regulated Apartments Under Threat of Fines

Aug. 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 19, 2024, 4:25 p.m.

A new state law, ed after THE CITY exposed units inexplicably missing in property owner reports, has spurred a surge in compliance in the face of costly penalties.

Plants sat on a balcony at the Sendero Verde affordable housing development in Harlem.

Environment

East Harlem ‘ive House’ Apartment Complex is the Nation’s Biggest Ultra-Green Development Yet

Aug. 13, 2024, 6:30 a.m.Nov. 5, 2024, 8:28 p.m.

Affordable housing built with careful attention to ventilation, windows, sealing and other details saves energy and utility costs — “the buildings just stand up better to extreme weather.”

NYCHA workers installed pipes in the ground to try and divert steam from entering a Jacob Riis Houses building.

Environment

Cancer-Causing Chemicals Still Lurk Under NYCHA’s Jacob Riis Houses, 19 Years After Detection

Aug. 5, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Aug. 4, 2024, 8:50 a.m.

A plan to clean up the contaminated soil was finally proposed by Con Ed four years ago, but not one cubic yard of dirt has been removed since.

How to New York

How to Avoid Deed Theft and Protect Against Property Scams

Aug. 5, 2024, 4:59 a.m.Aug. 15, 2024, 4:43 p.m.

New York City’s Black and Latino communities in gentrifying areas are especially at risk of speculative real estate practices, some of which are illegal.

Housing

Getting Your Apartment Security Deposit Back: A Guide for New York Tenants

Three Years After Ida’s Deadly Rain, Protecting Basement-Dwellers Remains an Elusive Goal

How Tenants Are Getting Rent Breaks as ‘Good Cause’ Kicks In

Landlord Accused of Discriminating Against Voucher Holders Must Pay

NYCHA Residents in Coney Island Reject Move to Nonprofit Trust Fund

Landlords Tens of Thousands More Rent-Regulated Apartments Under Threat of Fines

East Harlem ‘ive House’ Apartment Complex is the Nation’s Biggest Ultra-Green Development Yet

Cancer-Causing Chemicals Still Lurk Under NYCHA’s Jacob Riis Houses, 19 Years After Detection

How to Avoid Deed Theft and Protect Against Property Scams

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