Tenant protections enacted in 2024 left a big opening for property owners to not renew leases. Do apartment renovations count as demolition?
THE CITY GOVERNMENT requires tenants to complete and return the Protect Your Child From Lead Poisoning and Window Falls Annual Notice by Feb. 15.
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act would allow preservation ventures 90 days to make an offer, sponsors say.
TWO LANDLORDS WHO MANAGED TO RID THEIR PROPERTIES OF SQUATTERS now face a demand of $160,000 “to relocate” the offenders.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review two challenges to New York’s rent stabilization law, leaving intact regulations.
Chief Administrative Judge Joseph A. Zayas announced the appointment of two new judges to the Brooklyn Housing Court.
CITYWIDE — THE NEW YORK HOUSING CONFERENCE, a nonprofit advocacy group, released on Thursday their annual Housing Tracker Report, which compiles data on housing production
The Haitian American Lawyers Association of New York (HALANY), in collaboration with The Legal Aid Society, the Law Office of Annel-Stephan Norgaisse and Beaulieu Law Firm, is hosting an informative
CITYWIDE — New York City’s Housing Court has recently announced the appointment of four new judges in an effort to tackle the lengthy waiting periods for filings of all types
The 2021 Housing Vacancy Survey, released yesterday, seems to reinforce the prevailing belief that New York City housing policies are failing. It is the general consensus that New York City has not
This story was originally published on Oct. 29 by THE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning. To many tenants,
Groups of tenants’ advocates marched through Downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday from the Housing Court on Livingston Street to the office of the eviction marshal on Atlantic Avenue as they called
Less than a week after the $600-per-week federal unemployment protection expired and national COVID-19 related deaths topped 155,000, New York’s court system is expected to begin processing new eviction cases
Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently extended the eviction moratorium to Aug. 20, but the court system announced this week that it has begun scheduling and conducting virtual conferences on pending eviction
Assemblymember Joseph R. Lentol on Friday announced the proposal of the COVID-19 Compassionate Helper Volunteer Program, which aims to pair volunteers with hospitalized COVID-19 patients. This program would identify individuals
Technology push comes after pedestrian killed by falling façade BOROUGHWIDE — In the wake of the death of a pedestrian killed by a falling façade in midtown Manhattan, Brooklyn elected
This story was originally published on Oct. 2 by THE CITY. Some Brooklyn tenants battling to oust their troubled nonprofit landlord have reached a deal that could bring some relief —
This story was originally published on Sept. 30 by THE CITY. A key task of the state housing agency just got a lot tougher with a new rent law that expands tenants’ rights
This story was originally published on Sept. 18 by THE CITY. New York’s new rent law, signed in June, bars landlords from collecting more than one month’s security deposit from
Fresh off a legislative session during which they helped win the strongest protections for rent-controlled tenants in New York in decades, tenant organizers from Brooklyn are exploring a burgeoning venue
Democrats push sweeping reforms favoring tenants Brooklyn lawmakers expressed satisfaction and relief as the State Legislature prepared to vote for a sweeping series of rent law reforms that could affect
A Bay Ridge town hall hosted by the Metropolitan Council on Housing Tuesday evening, Oct. 30, ended with a trio of local Democratic candidates pledging their support for tenants’ rights.
Southwest Brooklyn residents from Bath Beach to Sunset Park stormed a town hall meeting on Thursday, February 26 at their wits’ end over what Dyker Heights resident, parent and local
Illegal conversions are about to be in the local limelight The Brooklyn Housing Preservation Alliance and the Dyker Heights Civic Association will host a joint town hall meeting on Thursday,
ROBERT CASSARA CO-FOUNDER, BROOKLYN HOUSING PRESERVATION ALLIANCE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Bob Cassara is a life-long community activist, serving as a member of Community Board 10 for around eight years and as
ROBERT CASSARA CO-FOUNDER, BROOKLYN HOUSING PRESERVATION ALLIANCE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Bob Cassara is a life-long community activist, serving as a member of Community Board 10 for around eight years and as
Illegal home conversions have been proliferating in southwest Brooklyn at an increasing rate, as observed and documented by res …
Illegal home conversions have been proliferating in southwest Brooklyn at an increasing rate, as observed and documented by res …
Dyker Heights residents are digging in their heels and filing complaints with the Department of Buildings (DOB) about illegal excavations and alleged single room occupancy conversions taking place in the neighborhood this year.
The construction began in earnest in March and rapidly progres …Dyker Heights residents are digging in their heels and filing complaints with the Department of Buildings (DOB) about illegal excavations and alleged single room occupancy conversions taking place in the neighborhood this year.
The construction began in earnest in March and rapidly progres …Tenants of six apartment buildings in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant, are planning a rally outside 193 Bedford Avenue tonight at 6 p.m., to protest what they
The Ridge is rocking over the sudden demolition of a century-oldhouse at the corner of Ridge Boulevard and 77th Street bycontractors who only had a permit for interior demolition.
I saw the boards go up around it and asked [a neighbor] what’sgoing on, recalled Victoria Hofmo, a local prese …