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Some New York City renters could gain a path to buying their apartments under legislation passed in the whopping $254 billion New York state budget last month. The budget lowers the number of renters or would-be-buyers that would need to agree to convert some newer, large apartment buildings from rental to condo. It’s one of a handful of initiatives—including a new statewide housing voucher program—that could have major impacts on NYC housing in the coming years.
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Joe McGuier and Megan Prime, co-founders of JAM, a Brooklyn-based architecture and interiors studio, rarely try to talk clients out of a big project. This couple couldn’t decide between apartments in two Fifth Avenue buildings. One had two smaller, but more modern units that JAM would gut and combine into one apartment, the other was a prewar condo that was large, but poorly laid out. McGuier didn’t hesitate to steer them to the simpler project in the prewar building. “The single apartment was already quite spacious, but it had this awkward living-dining room-entry,” he says. “We told them if we combine these rooms, you’ll have an amazing space with six windows overlooking the park.”
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Apartment owners at a luxury New York skyscraper are suing the building’s developers over a “far-reaching fraud” in which they allegedly hid structurally significant defects — including “thousands” of severe cracks on the tower’s facade.
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