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There are way too many places online just for apartment hunting, which is always annoying. Let us do the work for you. Here are some cool and interesting places you can check out if you’re looking to move soon. Avenue D & Bedford AvenueAvenue D & Bedford Avenue [http:
Central Brooklyn
There are way too many places online just for apartment hunting, which is always annoying. Let us do the work for you. Here are some cool and interesting places you can check out if you’re looking to move soon. Avenue D & Bedford AvenueAvenue D & Bedford Avenue [http:
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanCity Council members pushed back against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s zoning proposals Wednesday — questioning city officials about some of the more contentious aspects of the plan. Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been made the case for the mayor’s agenda, which involves rezoning
Bensonhurst
Photo via NY Standard RealtyLooking for a new place to call home, or a spot to start your business? We’ve rounded up a bunch of intriguing Bensonhurst area apartment listings, plus one commercial space — take a look at the details, and let us know what you think. Lots of
Lifestyle
Public Advocate Letitia James [http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/] released an interactive map of the worst landlords in the city based on data from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the Department of Buildings (DOB) this week. You can check out the full 2015 Landlords Watchlist here [http:
Central Brooklyn
Public Advocate Letitia James [http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/] released an interactive map of the worst landlords in the city based on data from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the Department of Buildings (DOB) this week. You can check out the full 2015 Landlords Watchlist here [http:
All Saints Church
Neighbors protested [/blog/news/after-ceiling-collapses-mold-rodents-roaches-and-more-tenants-at-125-east-18-street-raise-their-voices-to-say-we-are-fighting-back#prettyPhoto] landlord Moshe Piller’s treatment of tenants at an E. 18th Street apartment building last year.Borough President Eric Adams [http://brooklyn-usa.org/] and civil rights attorney Norman Siegel [http://stellp.com/nsiegel.html] are kicking off the first of three tenant harassment town
Councilman Jumaane Williams
Assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte was one of numerous elected officials arrested at a rent reform rally in Albany Wednesday. Photo via the Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.849332008473942.1073741871.268117579928724&type=1] After about 60 legislators and tenant advocates were arrested [/blog/news/
bensonhurst housing
Image via nyc.gov [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/benefits/tenants-scrie.page] If you’re 62 or older, living in rent-regulated Bensonhurst housing (or housing elsewhere in the five boroughs), and facing rent increases by the year, there’s hope to stop them — and an event this week [http:
Brad Lander
Councilman Jumaane Williams at the hearing he led Thursday on the 421-a property tax exemption program. Photo by William Alatriste/NYC Council [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nyccouncil/16398315345/]Local legislators slammed the city’s 421-a property tax exemption program [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/developers/ahp.shtml]
555 waverly avenue
Last week, news emerged that the Beigel’s Bakery [http://beigelsbakery.com] building on Waverly Avenue between Atlantic and Fulton had been purchased by developers for $23.5 million. The New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/real-estate-developer-buys-beloved-clinton-hill-kosher-bakery-23-5m-article-1.2000008] was the first to report that Madison Realty
affordable housing
Greenland Forest City Partners, the joint venture of Forest City Ratner [http://www.forestcity.net/offices/new_york/Pages/default.aspx] and China’s Greenland Holding Corp/Greenland USA [http://www.greenlandhk.com/en/BOD.html], have chosen to rename Atlantic Yards as Pacific Park [http://www.pacificparkbrooklyn.com], according