Inside Stories

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Negotiating + Financing

How I cut my monthly mortgage payment in half so I could keep my Staten Island home

By Celia Young |March 4, 2024 - 9:30AM

Affordable Housing

How I won a $444 UWS studio in NYC's affordable housing lottery

By Lcee |December 19, 2023 - 12:30PM

Barbara Fleischman with Chef Jim at Sunrise at 56th

The Market

At age 99, I moved to a luxury senior living facility. Here’s what it’s like

… For 50 years Barbara Fleischman 99 lived in an eightroom duplex apartment at United Nations … floors of our building it had five and a half baths But at 99 years old did I really need five baths and all those … … The Market … Inside Stories … luxury … retiree … At age 99 I moved to a luxury senior living facility Heres what its …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 28, 2023 - 9:30AM

Buy

The outrageously priced Brooklyn condo that I thank god we didn't end up buying

… are sob stories I often think about the twobedroom twobath Brooklyn condo my husband and I looked at back in 2016 and … The writing was on the wall our days there were numberedour nearly 100yearold landlord had just passed away there were … It was a twobedroom twobath penthouse duplex in Greenwood Heights with 1063 square feet Plus there was a 280squarefoot …

By Mimi OConnor |November 1, 2023 - 3:30PM