by Samantha Maldonado, THE CITY This article was originally published on May 26 at 5 a.m. EDT by THE CITY Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to lower the rent for some of the poorest New Yorkers. The mayor will announce on Tuesday that New Yorkers who are considered “extremely low-income” — no more than&hel
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City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. A rendering of the Monitor Point development proposed for the Greenpoint waterfront. A City Council committee will hold a public hearing about the project
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday released a comprehensive plan to address the city’s current housing crisis, detailing a goal to build 200,000 new affordable homes over the next decade, the most ambitious target by a New York City mayor ever. The housing plan, dubbed “Block by Block,̶
While the police department won’t support New York Knicks playoff watch parties outside of Madison Square Garden anymore, fans still celebrated the team’s first NBA Finals appearance in 27 years on Monday. After the city’s Police Department denied permits for the watch party for Game 4 o
The cloistered nuns moved out of the Carmelite monastery on the edge of Highland Park in Cypress Hills just over three years ago. Now a developer with plans of rezoning the site to build a nine-story, 345-unit apartment complex on the church-owned site appears to be moving in, and some… Read
New York City is launching a series of initiatives to help New Yorkers and visitors support small businesses and explore neighborhoods in every borough during the FIFA World Cup. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Friday a new $26 dining special at participating restaurants and bars throughout the si
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Every week, we share the most popular sale listing of the week in NYC, as selected by you, our StreetEasy users. The most popular sale for May 26 is a lofty 2-bedroom in the East Village with Parisian flair and fun pops of color. Loft-like East Village 2-bedroom with Parisian flair asks $1.27M Locat
This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Bay Ridge, and Sunset Park. How did they fare? First up, tucked between taller row houses, this Park Slope Neo-Grec is a few blocks from Grand Army Plaza.… Read More &g
by Katie Honan, THE CITY This article was originally published on May 21 at 3:45 p.m. EDT by THE CITY This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. Jessica Bonamusa’s… Read More &g
Editors note: This post originally ran in 2013 and has been updated. You can read the original post here. We celebrate Memorial Day with food, festivities, and perhaps even a day at the beach, on the semi-official start of the summer season. Some of us plan to go shopping, taking advantage… R
The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a Windsor Terrace row house, a Brooklyn Heights brownstone, and a Park Slope limestone. Listings in Windsor Terrace and Park Slope were popular with readers this week, with other listings scattered from Williamsburg to Flatbush The least exp
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens With $903 Units in Gowanus Waterfront Build An affordable housing lottery opened for a new nine-story development that replaced a former parking lot next to the now-demolished Green Building in Gowanus. This is the affordable component of Rabsky Group’s two-tower Wes
It's a holiday weekend, but that doesn't mean the open houses are off! There's still plenty to look at for those interested in landing a home in addition to enjoying a (rainy) beach day. We've rounded up a few that caught our eye, including a Beekman Place 3-bedroom with serious architectural bona f
Sixth Avenue’s protected bike lane will be widened along one of its most congested stretches as part of a series of street safety projects launched by the Mamdani administration ahead of the World Cup this summer. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the corridor’s bike lane will expand fro
This two-bedroom apartment could use a bit of TLC, but it boasts numerous period details and a location across from Sunset Park. It is on the third floor of 4404 6th Avenue and within the Sunset Park North Historic District. The intricately patterned brick building was constructed in 1914 to designs
Work on an $11 million skatepark in Brooklyn’s Mount Prospect Park could begin next spring after New York City’s Public Design Commission and the local community board approved the project last month. Known as the Brooklyn Skate Garden, the project is one of four skateparks planned across the
by Gabriele Holtermann, Brooklyn Paper A kinetic burst of color now spins in place on the median of 4th Avenue and 2nd Street, where a new public art installation is reshaping a familiar stretch of road bordering Park Slope and Gowanus. The massive, 11-foot-by-8-foot colorful kinetic sculpture title
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