Virginia K. Smith
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Got the day off? Catch up on our favorite new NYC TV shows
September 5, 2016 - 09:59 AM
Looking at New York apartments as they're shown on the big and small screens.
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Decades after the Collyer house raid, NYC is still obsessed with hoarders
September 2, 2016 - 11:22 AM
This month marks the anniversary of the police raid on their notoriously cluttered townhouse.
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How to find out if your building has a J-51 tax abatement—and if your rent was raised illegally
September 1, 2016 - 10:30 AM
When a tax incentive for landlords is misused, thousands of tenants miss out.
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Map: These neighborhoods have the biggest development booms in all 5 boroughs
August 29, 2016 - 15:01 PM
Unsurprisingly, Bushwick and Lower Manhattan lead the pack.
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The 25 best NYC neighborhood blogs of 2016
August 29, 2016 - 14:32 PM
Your digital dossier of on-the-ground NYC news outlets.
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Airbnb isn't necessarily causing city rents to spike—yet Read More
August 26, 2016 - 13:45 PM
While recent reports found that Airbnb "commercial listings" are already raising rents in popular neighborhoods like Chelsea, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg, a new data dive from number-crunching giant FiveThirtyEight indicates that this isn't really the case just yet, but that the short-term rental giant still has plenty of potential to upend urban housing markets.
