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

… City there is a chance you can be just as cold inside your apartment as you are outside Or maybe you have too much of a … Whether you rent or own when it comes to heat in your NYC apartment there very often is no happy medium Brick … got you covered with our best advice on what to do if your apartment is not warm enough We also have advice for …

By Brick Underground |November 18, 2025 - 1:00PM
11 things NYC landlords are required to provide, and 11 they’re not that might surprise you

… your safety and compliance with a lead paint test today … 3 Fire safety measures … Your apartment should have a fire and … In others you can request permission to cover the cost of installation yourself though there are many logical reasons … the power must be there to make it function  … 5 Fire extinguishers … The NYC fire code doesnt require that your …

By Jennifer White Karp |April 8, 2025 - 10:00AM
Signs that a NYC basement apartment is a safe and legal rental

… When Hurricane Ida blew through New York City in September 2021 it dumped more than half a foot of rain on … the subway system At least 11 people were killed when their basementlevel apartments filled with water or suffered other stormrelated …

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