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The Market

Manhattan median rent hit $4,700 in July, the fifth record in six months

By Jennifer White Karp |August 14, 2025 - 9:30AM

L-shaped divider with shelves and a sliding door from Manhattan Pressurized Walls

Roommates + Landlords

Temporary bookshelf walls to divide a room legally: A guide for NYC renters

By Evelyn Battaglia |July 15, 2025 - 10:30AM

Young woman using laptop at new apartment, with moving boxes around.

Roommates + Landlords

Didn't get your security deposit returned in NYC? A new chatbot can help

By Celia Young |July 7, 2025 - 11:00AM

Roommates + Landlords

How to break the lease for your NYC rental apartment

… When you sign a lease for a New York City rental apartment its essential to understand that you are signing a binding contract That … requirements and can take over the apartments lease … How to break your lease … Despite some challenges there are …

By Evelyn Battaglia |June 16, 2025 - 10:30AM

New York City, East Village Apartment Buildings

Roommates + Landlords

Rental assistance program helps NYC tenants pay back $1 million in arrears, avoid eviction

By Celia Young |June 5, 2025 - 11:30AM

Looking down on New York streets from the top of a skyscraper

New Construction + Condos

New York state budget greenlights more condo conversions, new housing vouchers, but no down payment assistance

By Celia Young |May 22, 2025 - 10:30AM

Building facades in New York in winter view from street

Affordable Housing

Delayed Section 8 payments could worsen discrimination against tenants, NYC attorneys warn

By Celia Young |March 21, 2025 - 4:00PM

A rendering of the seven-story development in the East Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens.

Affordable Housing

Senior housing lottery launches for 73 rent-stabilized units in East Elmhurst

By Celia Young |March 13, 2025 - 12:30PM

Residential towers on the Upper East Side of Manhattan

Roommates + Landlords

I’ve sublet a rent-stabilized apartment in NYC for five years. How do I take it over?

By Celia Young |March 12, 2025 - 10:30AM

Graphic of Zohran Mamdani with the line "meet the mayoral candidates"

Neighborhood Intel

Zohran Mamdani wants more union-built housing and to expand rent stabilization in NYC

… building 200000 new housing units in New York City For current NYC tenants he wants to make the city more effective at … back NYCs shortterm rental restrictions and allowing small homeowners to rent out their properties for fewer than 30 … new affordable unionbuilt permanently rent stabilized homes that directly address that concern around …

By Celia Young |March 3, 2025 - 3:30PM