Basement apartments provide affordable housing options in crowded urban hubs like New York City, where the average rent for a Manhattan apartment is $4,140, according to RENTCafé data. But far too ...

In New York City, the basement floors of most buildings pose a conundrum for public officials. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of New Yorkers live in basement and cellar apartments, ...

September 7, 2022 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google For most homeowners, a basement is just glorified storage space. Even finished basements often present a ...

Bottoms up! Brooklynite Caroline Caugliere and her two cats (Sterling shown above) scored an amenity-stuffed basement spread. Stephen Yang These New Yorkers aren’t scared of the basement. Last year, ...

In an office building in downtown Manhattan, an eight-foot-long banner stretched across the length of a fluorescent-lit hallway. Five-inch-tall red letters indicated the location of an entrance to a ...

A pilot program to convert illegal basement apartments in parts of Brooklyn into legal and safe units has just five active participants out of roughly 8,000 homeowners initially contacted, city ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens (PIX11) — Advocates ...

At least 11 people were found dead in basements after torrential rains flooded New York City — nearly as many as those killed by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana, where the storm made landfall. By Mihir ...