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State leaders are edging toward a deal to preserve rent regulations. But advocates who’d hoped not just to save the laws but to strengthen them wonder what the final deal…

ByGena Mangiaratti 0Comments

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Jun 2011

Housing and Homelessness

Crown Heights: At The Corner Of Old And New

An influx of young, more affluent residents is remaking the Brooklyn neighborhood. What’s gained, and what’s lost, in this transformation? Watch a video interview with reporter Patrick Wall.

ByPatrick Wall 0Comments

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Apr 2011

Immigrants On Front Lines Of Housing Fight

First-generation New Yorkers are more likely to reside in rent-regulated housing than the rest of us. So as Albany weighs weakening or strengthening rent rules, some immigrants are raising their…

ByDiana Scholl 0Comments

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Apr 2011

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Life In A Landmark: Pioneering Public Housing Site Shows Its Age

For residents of First Houses—the Lower East Side site where public housing began in the United States—pride in their historic location is mixed with worries about deterioration inside.

ByShamira Muhammad 0Comments

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Sep 2010

Housing and Homelessness

10 Foreclosed Buildings. One Mystery Buyer. $19M In Problems.

As an unnamed buyer closes in on 10 Bronx buildings that fell into foreclosure after an overleveraged private-equity deal, an assessment says they need at least $19 million in repairs.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Aug 2010

Housing and Homelessness

Nonprofit Eyeing Distressed Buildings Faces Tenant Resistance

Hope Community LDC wants to purchase 47 East Harlem buildings out of foreclosure. But a tenant organization has raised questions about the would-be buyer’s past record.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Aug 2010

Housing and Homelessness

Pols Warn Foreclosed Buildings' Mystery Buyer

Tenants and elected officials are suspicious of the unnamed buyer eyeing 10 distressed Bronx buildings, but the city’s housing chief wants to give the new owner a chance.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Jul 2010

ARTS and CULTURE

Behind The Scenes Of An Eviction

Most of the evictions that City Marshal Oren Varnai conducts aren’t dangerous; they’re simply “uncomfortable.”

ByChris Giblin 0Comments

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Jul 2010

Education Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Opponents Mobilize Against New Harlem Charter School

Opponents of the Harlem Children’s Zone’s plans to open a school in the St. Nicholas Houses are organizing a grassroots effort aimed to prevent it.

ByChris Giblin 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Government

Landlord Pinnacle Group Challenges Class Action

Two months after a federal judge granted class action status to a group of tenants suing the Pinnacle Group, the formal process of finding people who think they were wronged…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

Tenant Advocates Wary Of Rent Reg Talks

Crown Heights: At The Corner Of Old And New

Immigrants On Front Lines Of Housing Fight

Life In A Landmark: Pioneering Public Housing Site Shows Its Age

10 Foreclosed Buildings. One Mystery Buyer. $19M In Problems.

Nonprofit Eyeing Distressed Buildings Faces Tenant Resistance

Pols Warn Foreclosed Buildings' Mystery Buyer

Behind The Scenes Of An Eviction

Opponents Mobilize Against New Harlem Charter School

Landlord Pinnacle Group Challenges Class Action

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