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Experts Name the 20 Worst Places To Live In New York [RANKED]
20 New York cities and towns have received a not-so-stellar recognition. Let's be honest - any city or town has its pros and its cons. And when it comes to the town you live in, there is a reason you live there - the pros! No matter where you call home, there will always be drawbacks, some locations have more than others.
N.J. home got $350K over asking, making it the most expensive sale in its county this year
Five days is all it took for this Hoboken brownstone to go under contract for $350,000 more than its asking price. The six bedroom, four full and one half bathroom home was listed March 7 for $3.3 million. It closed last month for $3.65 million. “It was insane,” said Kaja...
Empire State Building thriving despite doom-and-gloom NY Times forecast
It wasn’t long ago that the New York Times — which never knew a commercial real estate success story that it liked — pronounced the Empire State Building all but doomed. No fewer than 10 Times reporters collaborated on a lavishly illustrated article in 2021, which pronounced the great landmark’s future “in doubt” due to a supposed pandemic exodus of tenants and the impact of working from home on the office market. But as we’ve reported several times since the Times’ embarrassing blunder, King Kong’s favorite skyscraper continues to thrive. East Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel could be migrant-free by end of 2024: sources Its offices and...
Socialist pol running for State Assembly lives in posh NYC condo built with property tax exemption he opposes
A Socialist candidate for State Assembly in Brooklyn, who regularly rails against real estate subsidies, is himself living in a posh Brooklyn condo built with the help of a controversial property tax exemption he’s opposed. Eon Huntley, 39, is looking to unseat Assemblywoman Stefani Zinerman in a hotly-contested June 25 Democratic primary for the state’s 56th district — an area covering portions of Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. Huntley is being supported by the Democratic Socialists of America, who are looking to further consolidate power in Brooklyn. Huntley, however, is registered to vote in the 57th district at an address inside...
64 NYC office buildings are looking to tranform into residential units
The owners of 64 New York City office buildings are eyeing a drastic transformation: turning their commercial properties into housing, according to fresh data from the Department of City Planning. In an interview with Gothamist, City Planning Director Dan Garodnick revealed that these owners or their reps have reached out to the city’s Office Conversion Accelerator Program to do so. This initiative aims to simplify the labyrinth of rules and building codes, assisting owners in repurposing their spaces. It’s a key part of Mayor Eric Adams’ bold plan to create 20,000 new apartments over the next decade, easing the Big Apple’s...
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