renting

… When you sign a lease for a New York City rental apartment its essential to understand that you are signing a binding contract That … the hook for the entire lease term which typically spans 12 months but can be as long as three years If you need to …

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

… Queens Assembly member Zohran Mamdani has ambitious plans for building 200000 new housing units in New York City For current NYC tenants he … leaving the city they call home in the hopes of finding a place where their dollar can go a little further If we dont …

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

Lander also proposed ramping up code enforcement at NYC buildings where residents regularly complain of a lack of heat.

Neighborhood Intel

Brad Lander pitches homesharing and co-ownership for city workers to ease the housing crisis

… Comptroller Brad Lander bought an apartment with his wife in the 1990s for $125000 That move gave him the ability to … 97 … Do you think fines should be delayed or enforced for buildings not in compliance with Local Law 97 I think fines … to prepare for the federal risks that are coming For NYCHA Trump proposed when Ben Carson was HUD Secretary to …