Emily Myers

One strategy for coping with the high cost of housing in New York City is to buy an apartment that’s within your budget, perhaps smaller than you’d like, but with potential to change the layout.

84 2nd Place #3 is a two-bedroom brownstone condo that’s well below the current median sales price in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens. If you need a home office, the spacious living room has an alcove currently being used as a dining room that would give you the flexibility to do so.

This one-bedroom, one-bath co-op unit, 158-18 Riverside Drive West #5N50 is on the market for $749,000. Prices in Washington Heights have been rising steadily since 2013 and the last one bedroom in the building sold in October 2018 for $715,000, 5 percent below the asking price of $749,000.

The Department of City Planning has a new digital mapping tool that’s meant to make it easier to prepare professional land use maps.

The EB-5 visa program allows investors who spend more than $500,000 or more to acquire permanent U.S. resident status. However, that investment is tied to a commitment to help some of the country's rural or less affluent urban areas. Critics have already found plenty of objections to the $25 billion construction of luxury condos, rentals, and commercial space, and The New York Times suggests this is yet "another reason to hate Hudson Yards."