A legal loophole is letting units in one Harlem co-op be sold out from beneath longtime residents who can’t afford to swing with the booming housing market.
When the Board of Education closes Brooklyn’s Sarah J. Hale high school in a few weeks, the student body will be dispersed–and some wonder where they’ll land.
In its ongoing…
After much work and negotiation, the 322 families of Harlem’s A. Philip Randolph Houses thought they had a plan to rebuild their 36 run-down tenement buildings. But the city says…
The Harlem Restoration Project had a decade to close the deal to redevelop a huge bakery on West 125th St., but when the final decision was made last week, upscale…
A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks…
Could this week bring the third Legal Services strike in a decade? These public interest lawyers have been without a contract since June–and the union’s leadership says it’s looking close.
The federal 203(k) program is supposed to help nonprofits buy and rehab run-down properties, but in New York, profiteers have snatched up apartments at bargain prices and bilked the rehabbers…
Hundreds of public housing tenants swarmed a public hearing last week about NYCHA’s five-year plan, which they say is too vague in some parts and wrong in others.
