Records show that the number of tickets issued to owners for not removing sidewalk snow in front of their properties is on the rise as winter weather keeps hammering the city. During the first three weeks of the year, Department of Sanitation agents issued 2,036 tickets to lax landlords and...
An East Village tenant who used an unorthodox “sushi defense” to keep her rent-stabilized studio apartment has recently lost her last court battle to keep her discounted pad. The owner had tried since 2007 to evict the tenant based on nonprimary residence. As evidence, the owner...
In 1885 New York State legislators enacted a law intended to safeguard construction workers who were finding themselves facing increasing dangers while working at ever-greater heights. The law, which became known as the Scaffold Law, requires employers on building sites to ensure the safety of...
In December, a high-profile panel issued a set of recommendations for reining in the state's high property and business taxes. The group, led by former Governor George Pataki, identified some $2 billion worth of proposed tax cuts, half of it earmarked for property-tax relief for homeowners...
The Bloomberg administration recently launched a new Web site to track how money earmarked for Hurricane Sandy relief is being spent. Administration officials said that some of the information on the site would be updated every month, while some of...
A limited-equity housing cooperative's board in Chelsea is evicting a retired resident after the board used a sting operation to catch the resident renting out his private terrace on short-term rental sites AirBnB and Roomorama. The resident's apartment building was given 25 years of tax...
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has pledged to see through his plan to tax vacant lot owners, a move that could affect upwards of 10,000 lots throughout the city, with the highest concentration on Staten Island.
Manhattan is set to get its first residential building that measures up to passive house standards, a set of green guidelines that aim to cut heating costs by 90 percent through the use of solar energy, better insulation, and other measures. Developer Synapse Capital recently closed on a 9,900-...
Airbnb Inc., the short-term home rental service for travelers, was recently asked to provide information to New York's attorney general about its hosts who rent and sublet apartments. Airbnb allows people to rent dwellings on a short-term basis as an alternative to hotels. A 2010 New York...
