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Tighter rules on lead paint exposure, Manhattan luxury sales hit a low, & more

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By Emily Myers  |
January 29, 2019 - 11:00AM

The city plans to tighten rules on lead paint exposure (New York Daily News)

Luxury co-op and condo sales in Manhattan hit a seven-year low (The Real Deal)

Weekend L-train service is disrupted from now until mid-March (Curbed NY)

There are moves to close a loophole allowing developers to use empty space (aka mechanical voids) to make residential buildings taller (Department of City Planning)

NYC forestry workers are set to remove a sofa that’s been stuck in a tree on the UWS for days (New York Post)

Leslie Jones ribs the Upper East Side in a rap ode to her neighborhood (SNL via Gothamist)

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Emily Myers

Senior Writer/Podcast Producer

Emily Myers is a real estate writer and podcast host. As the former host of the Brick Underground podcast, she earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London, earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived for a decade in California.

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