Tag: housing

3 Step Checklist to Better Apartment Building Insurance

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Apr. 25, 2024 Sponsored by The Brownstone Agency

Insurance rates for multi-family brownstones continue to climb year after year. So here’s a three-step process to help you get the right insurance — at the right price.

‘Intense’ fire breaks out in Brooklyn apartment building

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Apr. 22, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell

An all-hands fire tore through a Bath Beach apartment building on Sunday night after a resident said she dropped a candle inside her apartment. 

Affordable housing lottery opens for 95 apartments in Windsor Terrace

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Apr. 22, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith

An affordable housing lottery has launched for 95 apartments in an under-construction contemporary-style building curving along Machate Circle/Park Circle in Windsor Terrace across from Prospect Park and the Parade Grounds.

Brooklyn tenants sue to oust landlord over years of ‘neglect and mismanagement’

A group of six tenants residing at 201 Pulaski Street claim Food First has failed to complete any significant repairs or construction on any of their homes

Apr. 18, 2024 By Adam Daly

A group of Bed-Stuy tenants are asking for a court-appointed executive to replace their landlord, alleging they have been “effectively abandoned” to deal with issues of vermin infestations, persistent roof leaks, as well as inadequate heat and janitorial services, according to recent Housing Court filings.

City releases detailed ‘City of Yes’ zoning changes, including taller buildings, less parking and affordable housing

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Apr. 12, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith Taller residences, less parking, and more infill buildings will be allowed in New York City if the mayor’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity zoning changes go ahead as planned. The draft text for the proposal was released Thursday by the NYC Department of City Planning, the final installment…
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Affordable housing lottery opens in East New York, with rents starting at $465

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Apr. 10, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 203 newly constructed units across 30 neighboring buildings that are part of East New York’s Nehemiah Spring Creek development, an enormous, long in the works, truly affordable housing development on the site of a former wetland and later landfill.