Permits have been filed for a 12-story mixed-use building at 395 Louisiana Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. Located between Vandalia Avenue and Flatlands Avenue, the lot is near the East 105th Street subway station, served by the L train. David Picket of IUV Building 7 LIHTC Owner LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 282 4th Avenue, a 14-story residential building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Developed by Bruklyn Builders and designed by ND Architecture and Input Creative Studio, the structure yields 48 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 13 units for residents at 40 to 110 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $41,658 to $201,520. ... Read full Story
An explosive new lawsuit details a frightening late-night outburst at the Admaston -- one allegedly so severe that board members are seeking to force him out. ... Read full Story
Anders Fernstedt, a bearded Swedish homeless man, has pitched a tent on the front porch and called the mansion home for the past three years. ... Read full Story
"This exciting new plan brings more people, resources, and technology to the process to make it work more efficiently for the developer community, city staff, and all our citizens,” said Mayor Donna Deegan. ... Read full Story
New renderings have been revealed for 50-58 Cliff Street, a forthcoming 24-story all-affordable residential tower in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District. Designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Trinity Church and Settlement Housing Fund, the structure is slated to yield 120 below-market-rate rental units, with 18 dedicated to formerly homeless individuals. The nearly $70 million project would also include ground-floor social services. The 6,000-square-foot property is located near the corner of Cliff and Fulton Streets. ... Read full Story
Construction is complete on ANCP Morningside, a conversion of three five-story buildings into affordable shared-equity cooperatives in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Designed by SLM Architecture P.C. and developed by Genesis Companies and Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County, the project involved the renovation of the formerly city-owned properties into permanently affordable housing yielding 36 units. Work was financed through the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s Affordable Neighborhood Cooperative Program (ANCP). The properties are located between Manhattan Avenue, 115th Street, and 116th Street. ... Read full Story
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 1211 Fulton Street, a nine-story residential building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Naresh Mahangu of NY Building Associates and developed by Vision Development, the structure yields 31 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 12 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $136,252 to $238,160.
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Permits have been filed for a five-story residential building at 508 Graham Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Bayard Street and Newton Street, the lot is close to the Nassau Avenue subway station, served by the G train. Rotem Cohen of OnPoint Development NYC LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
Tempers have been flaring at an East Village cooperative over the board potentially selling one of its parking lots without keeping shareholders in the loop. ... Read full Story
Roughly 350 lawsuits are filed annually in the five boroughs targeting homes caught in inherited ownership disputes, per the Center for NYC Neighborhoods. ... Read full Story
All-American Rejects guitarist Nick Wheeler is opening the doors to the creative hub where his band's long-awaited fifth album was carefully curated—years after he brought his dream of having a private recording studio to life at his Tennessee home. ... Read full Story
Permits, building codes, inspections, and regulations are tacking on huge costs to build new single-family homes, which are inevitably passed along to homebuyers. ... Read full Story
“Game 3 of the World Series was a stone-cold thriller, with peaks of high drama and longueurs of exquisitely tense tedium ...” — Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
Did you know?
You’ve probably come across long, tedious sections of books, plays, or musical works before, but perhaps you didn’t know there was a word for them. The French borrowing longueur has been doing the job for us since the late 18th century. As in English, French longueurs are tedious passages, with longueur itself literally meaning “length.” An early example of longueur used in an English text is from 18th-century writer Horace Walpole, who wrote in a letter, “Boswell’s book is gossiping; ... but there are woeful longueurs, both about his hero and himself.”