New York City’s affordable housing stock mostly consists of rental apartments, but for those who are in the market to buy, there is one reliable source for homeownership on a budget. Housing ...
The intricacies of New York City’s zoning laws tend to make even the wonkiest of city wonks’ eyes glaze over, but it’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of those byzantine rules and the ...
The New York City housing market could not look more different today than it did at the beginning of the 2010s. The financial crisis in 2008 didn’t hit New York housing as hard as it did in other ...
The two towers will surround the James Corner Field Operations-designed park. Renderings: James Corner Field Operations and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, courtesy of Two Trees Management A new waterfront ...
Over the last decade, the landscape of New York City has seen an unprecedented amount of change. Luxury towers and megaprojects rose across the city, and miles of previously off-limits coastline were ...
The acronym NIMBY, meaning “not in my backyard,” and its opposite, YIMBY, for “yes in my backyard,” entered the lexicon sometime in the early 1980s. The first NIMBY mention I can find in the New York ...
All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge gates ...
From left: One World Trade Center, 7 World Trade Center, 3 World Trade Center, and 4 World Trade Center, on September 7, 2019. Scroll through for a look at the World Trade Center site today, and for ...
Out on the northwest corner of Staten Island, a small wetland forest awaits its fate. Situated between the neighborhoods of Old Place and Graniteville, this 42-acre woodlands has been growing in ...
On a sunny afternoon in the middle of May, Eero Saarinen’s soaring Jet Age terminal at JFK Airport is as bustling as it was when it first opened in 1962. Models and dancers dressed in vintage TWA ...
In the fall of 1988—in a scene so cliche it’s sometimes hard for me to believe that it actually happened—I arrived at Port Authority bus terminal with a suitcase, a blank check from my parents, and a ...
On May 18, 1976, a tourist named W.J. Schaap, of St. Louis, Missouri, settled his bill at the front desk of the Hotel Commodore and became the final guest to leave the premises. The hotel, a fading ...
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