As New York sprawled northward throughout Manhattan, the European immigrants flooding into the city were often housed in old single-family homes, crammed into a few rooms in buildings built for much smaller numbers of far wealthier people. Rows of brick townhouses…
A few weeks ago, the Department of City Planning announced its intention to tweak the city’s zoning rules to encourage the production of affordable housing. The most important change is a reduction in the city’s parking…
In a twelve-step program, admitting you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery. So, too, for the MTA, and its addiction to high costs, with each of its rail tunneling projects much more…
Pretty soon, the Key Food at 325 Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill will be closing, to make way for an 110-unit apartment building developed by Slate Property Group. That will leave this slice of Clinton…
Earlier this month, the New York Times published the results of its year-plus-long investigation into the buyers of condos at the Time Warner Center and other buildings around the bottom of Central Park. The city’s paper…
