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

… I knew that when my mom passed away Id have to find a place to live I was living with her in the South Bronx in an apartment she had rented for over 40 years … and a US Navy veteran who served from 19881991 and moved home to care for her ailing mother She asked us to refer to …

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

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

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

… internal medicine specialist uses his Brooklyn roof deck to grow fruits and vegetables including okra beans carrots and eggplant He calls the lush oasis his pride and joy Here he shares the lessons … and it produces so many beans She recently renovated her place and her plants died so she actually came back to me to …

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