Inside Stories

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How I cut my monthly mortgage payment in half so I could keep my Staten Island home

By Celia Young |March 4, 2024 - 9:30AM

How I won a $444 UWS studio in NYC's affordable housing lottery

… lease In July 2016 I was combing the Internet looking for affordable housing I ran across an article about a lottery for rental … Then in midJanuary a representative from Maxwell Kate a property management firm called and informed me that I had …

By Lcee |December 19, 2023 - 12:30PM

Barbara Fleischman with Chef Jim at Sunrise at 56th

The Market

At age 99, I moved to a luxury senior living facility. Here’s what it’s like

By Marjorie Cohen |November 28, 2023 - 9:30AM

Buy

The outrageously priced Brooklyn condo that I thank god we didn't end up buying

By Mimi OConnor |November 1, 2023 - 3:30PM

Roommates + Landlords

My NYC rental felt unsafe, but a squatter using the basement as a bathroom was the last straw

By Celia Young |August 7, 2023 - 1:30PM

Live

I live in a five-floor NYC townhouse with a private elevator

By Mimi OConnor |June 27, 2023 - 12:30PM

Live

Nightmare in Park Slope: My ‘luxury’ basement apartment flooded three times in two months

By Anonymous |March 30, 2023 - 12:30PM

Sales Market

How the 'real estate whisperer' won a 30-way bidding war and landed his dream house

… him Understanding pricing is the key to feeling confident about your bidand beating the competition Theres arguably no … Elliman Reportbut earlier in the year they accounted for about half of sales in some NYC areas For example in the … that space and wanted more land Im now coming into the city about two days a week so I was willing to have a longer …

By Jennifer White Karp |January 18, 2023 - 9:30AM