“I’m surprised, I’m baffled, I’m angry,” said City Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who represents East New York, where the city ran an earlier basement conversion pilot in 2019. The area…
A medida que se acerca la fecha límite del presupuesto del estado, los legisladores demócratas de Queens están en desacuerdo sobre si debe incluir una vía para legalizar los apartamentos…
As the state’s budget deadline approaches, Queens democratic lawmakers are at odds over whether it should include a path for legalizing the city’s basement and cellar apartments.
While Gov. Kathy Hochul included a pathway to basement legalization in her February budget proposal, the word ‘cellar’ is absent from her plan. The two terms may be indistinguishable to…
District 74 covers most of the Lower East Side, the East Village, Gramercy Park, Murray Hill and some of Midtown East. The preceding assemblyman, Brian Kavanagh, left office to take…
