Homeless shelter provider goes bankrupt, LIC's growing Asian population, & more

By Emily Myers | October 19, 2021 - 10:30AM

Mounting debts and lawsuits for a provider of homeless shelters in the city results in the organization filing for bankruptcy (City Limits)

NYCHA preps for an extra-cold winter and says the number of heat outages was halved last year (Brownstoner)

Long Island City has a fast-growing Asian population, transforming the area’s restaurants, housing, and politics (The New York Times)

A portion of the broker commission earned through sales at Huxley in East Harlem will be donated to the local community—for a total of $101,000 (press release)

A sales launch at the twisting condo building Olympia in Dumbo gives buyers a glimpse of the building's interiors (Design Boom)

New York City wants Hart Island, long used as a burial site, to become a park (Bloomberg City)

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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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