Emily Myers

Four workers have been injured after scaffolding collapsed at a building site in Hudson Yards.

Offered at $1,395,000, the seller cut the asking price by $69,000 about six months ago so it is well below the current median sales price of $1,795,000 for similar-sized units in the neighborhood, according to StreetEasy.

A steel wall is going up along the eastern edge of the Gowanus Canal as part of the federal Superfund site’s environmental cleanup.

If you live in a multi-family walk-up with a dumbwaiter, you probably wish you could use it to haul your groceries up to your apartment. But Jim Bullock, co-owner of NY Fire Consultants and a former FDNY department chief, recommends sealing a dumbwaiter off with double layers of sheetrock. This will prevent a fire from spreading through the building via the dumbwaiter shaft—which occurred in a Park Slope townhouse recently.

New Yorkers are voting on who gets to be the city's public advocate and revisions to the NYC charter.

Because a condo's ownership structure gives a condo board less power than co-op board, it's easier to buy, sell, and sublet a condo. But all that flexibility comes at a price. Condos typically cost more than co-ops and come with higher closing costs. They also often have higher property taxes.