Inside Stories

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Negotiating + Financing

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

Affordable Housing

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

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

… are sob stories I often think about the twobedroom twobath Brooklyn condo my husband and I looked at back in 2016 and … saving and looking off and on for years and were hoping to buy On paper the apartment sounded pretty good It was a … in Greenwood was $11 million Wed flirted with the idea of buying a twofamily ie a building with an apartment we could …

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

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

Kids + Pets

I keep chickens in my Bed-Stuy backyard and it's not as much work as you might think

… Nancy Gannon an education advisor at FHI 360 and former school … a BedStuy brownstone with her family and their dogand three chickens in the backyard Heres her experience and tips for … to a place with a backyard I put in a garden and chicken coop to create a tiny replica of my childhood When I …

By Austin Havens-Bowen |October 18, 2022 - 9:30AM

Neighborhood Intel

The vegetable garden on my Brooklyn roof deck is my pride and joy. Here's how I created it

By Emily Myers |September 29, 2022 - 1:30PM