Soho basement for $250,000, 'Godfather' mansion on Airbnb, & more

By Emily Myers | July 19, 2022 - 10:30AM

With numbers of homeless New Yorkers rising, a pair of notorious landlords lease hotel rooms as shelters to the city (City Limits)

Soho’s cheapest apartment, a basement unit at 195 Prince St., lists for $250,000 but the condition is stark (New York Post)

A deaf man living in a Lower Manhattan building for hearing-impaired tenants plans to sue the owners for only installing alarms with sound (Patch)

Mayor Eric Adams sets out a housing plan emphasizing Black and Latino homeownership to address inequality (The City)

A 61-year-old man falls to his death washing the windows of his Upper East Side apartment (New York Post)

The Staten Island mansion that served as Don Corleone's house in "The Godfather" is available to rent on Airbnb (House Beautiful)

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Emily Myers is a senior writer, podcast host, and producer at Brick Underground. She writes about issues ranging from market analysis and tenants' rights to the intricacies of buying and selling condos and co-ops. As host of the Brick Underground podcast, she has earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

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