It’s no easy feat to find an affordable apartment in many cities. Renters will scour the city streets for a decent deal, searching uptown, downtown and increasingly, underground. But basement ...

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WHEN TRYING to make use of a basement, many people default to dusty wine cellars and ignorable gyms. But if you want a truly livable space such as a bedroom down there, said Manhattan interior ...

Acceptable types of ADUs under new city rules include basement apartments, attic apartments in one-family homes, and backyard cottages on the same lot as one- and two-family residential homes, that ...

Kristen has worked as a freelance home, design and lifestyle writer since 2021. In that time she has contributed to a number of online media outlets including Apartment Therapy, Hunker, The Everygirl, ...

When will we finally stop letting our neighbors die? Ten years ago, Hurricane Sandy struck the city and took the lives of 44 New Yorkers. Fast forward to one year ago, when Hurricane Ida claimed the ...

Ivanhoe Cambridge, the City of Montreal, Cogir Real Estate and Pomerleau have just announced a new mixed-use apartment building called Haleco. Haleco is a development project that combines residential ...

The Town of Huntington is proposing changes that would legalize basement apartments and detached garages as secondary living spaces in single-family homes, measures they say will help boost affordable ...

New flood protection rules proposed for New York City could force developers to eliminate basement apartments and raise ...

Only five of 800 basement apartment owners who expressed interest in a program to legalize those units ultimately participated, city officials said Tuesday. The main reasons were cost and zoning that ...

A side street in East New York. The basement program was a featured capital investment in the 2016 East New York rezoning plan The de Blasio administration’s basement pilot program is headed to hiatus ...