Category: Neighborhoods

The Bronx may not be known as NYC's most glamorous borough, but a drive through the city's northernmost section reveals signs of renewal and development that would've been almost unthinkable just a few years ago. From new apartment construc…

A company that owns about an acre of land in Elmhurst, Queens had originally eyed a new condominium project to be built on that site.  Instead, the company has put up the lot for sale with an asking price of $13.8 million. What hamstrun…

The site of an early 1900s single-family house in Washington Heights will be the future home of a new environmentally-conscious, technologically advanced condo development --  another indication of the latest changes happening to the old ne…

Like many other American cities, New York City is currently mired in an affordable housing crisis. And the situation seemingly grows more dire by the day. As Gothamist reported earlier this year, weakened rent laws and economic pressure…

Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) co-ops are an important and unique segment of the New York housing market that many fellow co-op shareholders are unaware of. Those who do know of the program are often familiar with it only from …

If you've followed New York real estate news in the last few days, you have certainly heard about Hudson Yards , the much-hyped, largest private development on Manhattan's West Side that boasts 18 million square feet of commercial and re…

Having weathered some local opposition, a condo project in development on the site of a former public library in Brooklyn Heights has taken the next major step forward. Curbed reported that sales were recently launched for One C…

In a city where new luxury condo and co-op developments are pretty much the norm, not every project announcement is front-page newsworthy. But in the Bronx, where the vast majority of the residential market is of the rental variety, Brook…

Upper Manhattan, particularly the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood, continues to be Manhattan’s last frontier for residential development. With a relative abundance of residential-zoned building sites and excellent subway acce…

It's hard to bring up Long Island City nowadays without the conversation turning toward Amazon, as the online shopping behemoth's massive new HQ2 location prepares to descend upon the neighborhood . And while it's true that the Amazon pr…