First of a two-part series; read part two here . For the 225,000 commuters who normally take the L train from Brooklyn to Manhattan, April 27, 2019 would have been doomsday. On that date, the MTA was supposed to have completely shut dow…
Move over Wiliamsburg, Park Slope, and the East Village. To ring in the new year, the New York Post published a list of the current “hottest” New York City neighborhoods , per the app Localize.city, which analyzes real estate devel…
Manhattan’s residential co-op and condominium market ended 2018 on a down note, a change from the more stable picture it displayed in 2017, according to Corcoran’s 2018 fourth quarter report. “Market-wide closed sales declined as potentia…
The Brooklyn and Queens residential markets both saw a slight rise in median sales price but accompanied by falling sales numbers during the fourth quarter of 2018, according to Douglas Elliman in its latest quarterly reports for th…
Entertainment journalists have long claimed that the rich and famous are just like “us” (plebs) because they do things like wear sweatpants or walk their dogs. Well, it turns out that there is at least a third commonality between the showbi…
In the last couple of months, The Cooperator has been covering the recent issues surrounding Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) cooperatives. Among those areas of concern include co-op buildings that were threatened with forecl…
Pests - whether they be of the rodent or insect variety - are gross. They're also potential disease vectors, particularly for the very young, the elderly, or for residents with allergies and other immune concerns. Keeping your building or a…
Even amid a slowdown in the Manhattan real estate market, co-op sales in that borough performed well in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to condos, according to a new report by Douglas Elliman released today. The brokerage…
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…
Beginning in the new year, New York City buildings will have to make sure their gas lines are up to code. On January 1, 2019, the city's Local Law 152 (passed in 2016 ) will go into effect. It means that gas piping systems of all b…