Posts Tagged ‘NYC’
NYC Pension Funds to Deploy $4B for Affordable Developments
New York City’s pension funds are supersizing their investment in affordable housing developments.New York City Comptroller Mark Levine plans to use the city’s public pension funds to invest $4 billion over the next four years, the New York...
Essay Blaming Real Estate for Killing NYC Art Scene is Wrong
A 19-page essay by New York City artist Josh Kline lamenting the state of the art world has gone viral.“New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art” argues that the city has become too expensive for artists to forge a career here. I w...
NYC Apartments Under a Million: Gramercy Park, Boerum Hill
As seen in this listing photo, this Gramercy studio has prewar bones with modern updates. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Corco...
NYC Bill Takes Aim at Battery Energy Storage Systems
Is it possible to write about battery storage without sapping your energy? I’m going to try.After all, it’s a real estate story. And it features pandering politicians and paranoid constituents.This month, City Council member Frank Morano fe...
Section 8 Court Ruling Muddies NYC Voucher Rules
A state appellate court ruling striking down New York’s ban on Section 8 discrimination has thrown the city’s already fragile voucher ecosystem into confusion, raising questions about how or if landlords can be compelled to accept subsidize...
NYC Rental Listings Shrinks As Housing Debate Intensifies
Apartment hunting in New York City has never been for the faint of heart — and the latest numbers suggest it’s only getting tougher. Rental listings across the five boroughs fell about 6 percent in February compared to the same month last ...
NYC Apartments Under a Million: West Village, Midtown
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Compass For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of...
In NYC, Even Dead Tenants are Hard to Evict
Every landlord has a dead tenant story.“Remember the lady in 4C with the handwritten notes on the lease?” one recently asked his attorney, Noah Levenson. “Awful smell coming from her apartment. We think she’s dead and decomposing. What ...
