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Neighborhood Intel

What to know about the ongoing discriminatory practice of redlining in NYC

By Emily Myers |January 20, 2025 - 10:30AM

A rendering of the development attached to the historic Empire Street Dairy building.

Affordable Housing

Housing lottery launches for 80 rent-stabilized apartments in East New York

By Celia Young |December 9, 2024 - 4:15PM

Traffic lights go dark during the 2003 blackout

Live

Where were you during the 2003 blackout? New Yorkers share their stories

By Mimi OConnor |August 14, 2023 - 12:30PM

Buy Affordable Housing

Homeownership rates fall for Black New Yorkers, pushed out by rising prices

… a report from the NYU Furman Center finds that across NYC Asian households had the highest homeownership rate in … the report notes … An exodus of Black families leaving NYC … After NYC reopened following the pandemic shutdown … points out Shadi Bushra writing for Todays Homeowner a home improvement website With fewer Black families owning homes …

By Jennifer White Karp |February 6, 2023 - 4:30PM

Sales Market

How the 'real estate whisperer' won a 30-way bidding war and landed his dream house

By Jennifer White Karp |January 18, 2023 - 9:30AM

Mountains

5 houses for sale in Great Barrington, MA, a town in the Berkshires

By Austin Havens-Bowen |October 14, 2022 - 9:30AM

Beach

5 houses for sale in Charleston, SC, a top city for investment buyers

By Austin Havens-Bowen |August 12, 2022 - 12:30PM

Mountains

5 Hudson Valley vacation rentals for a last-minute summer getaway

By Austin Havens-Bowen |July 29, 2022 - 9:30AM

Neighborhood Intel

Chinatown: The insider's guide to living there

… for July 2022 Karlin Chan a community activist who has lived in Chinatown for over 60 years describes the … four proposed luxury mega towers on the waterfront and with NYC Council member Christopher Marte are about to launch … have much new on my list of favorites I love going to Aquabest on Grand for seafood The family that owns that business …

By Marjorie Cohen |July 25, 2022 - 2:30PM

Mountains

5 houses for sale in Hudson, NY, an artsy haven

By Austin Havens-Bowen |July 1, 2022 - 9:30AM