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How to warm up your chilly NYC apartment: Brick Underground's best advice

By Brick Underground |November 18, 2025 - 1:00PM

Fire escape on brick apartment building in NYC

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By Brick Underground |October 8, 2025 - 9:30AM

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Gas was seeping through our walls and my family is lucky our neighbor took action

By Emily Myers |September 16, 2025 - 11:30AM

NYC apartment buildings with fire escapes

Neighborhood Intel

Can you sit on a fire escape in NYC? 5 things to know

… on fire escapes in NYC They were initially installed in buildings during the 1860s after several fatal tenement … Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire the city tightened building codes requiring fire escapes to be made from … Karp … You Might Also Like … viewbublogpanes=ymalinline … Live … Neighborhood Intel … fire escape … fire safety … …

By Brick Underground |June 2, 2025 - 12:30PM

A kitchen with stainless steel appliances and counter tops and wood floor

Roommates + Landlords

11 things NYC landlords are required to provide, and 11 they’re not that might surprise you

By Jennifer White Karp |April 8, 2025 - 10:00AM

Affordable Housing

Signs that a NYC basement apartment is a safe and legal rental

… the subway system At least 11 people were killed when their basementlevel apartments filled with water or suffered other stormrelated … destruction The storm cast new attention on the problem of basement apartmentsand the citys lack of progress so far to …

By Jennifer White Karp |March 10, 2025 - 9:30AM