Bed-Stuy is NYC's most affordable 'hood for minimum wage earners

… per hour 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year per StreetEasys blog post explaining the findings And in spite of its … 1000 listings in New York City qualified as affordable in 2014 and most of them were concentrated in east and south … are pretty stark though and as Lightfeldt points out on the blog point to the crucial role of subsidized housing for …

By Virginia K. Smith |December 11, 2015 - 8:59AM
5 things you didn't know about Jamaica Estates, Trump's former home in suburban Queens

… on massive lots This may sound like an idyllic suburban neighborhood far away from New York City but its actually … from Manhattan This socalled planned developmentmeaning any community carefully crafted from its inception and … to be evocative of an English village too Avon Kent Tudor Chelsea and Aberdeen And it really was exclusive with an …

By Emily Nonko |December 8, 2015 - 8:59AM
Track income, crime, rents, and more with the NYC data map to end all data maps

… Data maps tracking everything from Airbnb rentals to Halloween 311 complaints  have become hugely … by the statisticsbased approach of the United Nations Human Development Reports Our overall goal is to breathe … Sarah BurdSharps one of the sites creators told the blog Data 2 Go lets users browse neighborhoodbyneighborhood …

By Virginia K. Smith |October 29, 2015 - 11:09AM