Buildings with a past
New York has always been a place where people could start over, reinvent, try something new.
Buildings have been no different.
Perhaps from the moment somebody turned a stable in colonial Manhattan into a crash pad,...
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De Blasio unveiled his administration’s ambitious plan to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing, one that he says will house half a million people at a cost of more than $41 billion...
Millionaires in rent-stabilized apartments?
A polo-playing multimillionaire who allegedly broke up Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s marriage, a former tobacco executive who once chaired an anti-tax organization and the head of a hedge fund have all lived in rent-stabilized apartments...
You don’t always get what you want
Reilly’s building, the Windermere West End, a luxury rental, is one of several in the city that prohibit rent-regulated tenants from using new services like gyms, playrooms and rooftop gardens. Some co-op and condo...
With lantern and with ladder
The Park Square rental complex at Arlington Street and Columbus Avenue in Bay Village has been carved out of a 1927 Renaissance Revival building.
Built for the Boston Consolidated Gas Co., it was part of...
Rising tide raises all rates
The state now expects all of the utilities it regulates to consider how sea level rise, extreme weather and other possible effects related to climate change will affect their operations and reliability as they...
Just what the doctor ordered
The architect for these model tenements, Henry Atterbury Smith, rethought the whole window idea, not only getting light and air inside the apartments, but also getting the tenants outside.
At the turn of the last...
Residents only
In Key Biscayne, Fla., Oceana Key Biscayne is constructing a private restaurant with globally-inspired cuisine that's dedicated to the buyers of its units priced from $2 million to $19 million. Another going up within...
Inner core gets schooled
A founding partner and CEO of the Newark-based developer RBH Group, Beit said his shift in vision came from walking into Thrive Academy, a charter school in Newark's central ward.
"I was blown away by...
The war on fake reviews
They were writing or commissioning fake online reviews, or "astroturfing," as it's sometimes called. A sting operation codenamed Operation Clean Turf involved creating a fictional yogurt shop in Brooklyn and then approaching SEO (search...
Apartments: supersize me
But now, with super luxury condo prices on the rise, the 98-year-old Litwin has joined the stampede of developers building over-size condominiums for the wealthy. Glenwood has filed plans with the city and state...
Composting: coming to an apartment near you
The building on West 57th Street in Manhattan is part of a pilot program in which residents separate food scraps from the rest of their waste.
The Helena is a shining example of New Yorkers...
Big deal in the Big Apple
The city has taken its first step toward what may be a wave of new development on Halletts Point peninsula, a long-neglected area south of Astoria Park in Queens. Members of Community Board 1...
The 11,250 NYC apartments we love to hate
Many Stuy Town tenants are getting hit with big rent increases in the middle of their leases. Even after years of litigation, shell-shocked tenants will have to pay as much as $1,100 more per...
Little size. Little stuff. Big price. The LifeEdited apartment.
"I have come a long way from the life I had in the late 90s, when, flush with cash from an Internet start-up sale, I had a giant house crammed with stuff-electronics and cars...
