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 ...

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 ...

Amit Shivprasad knows the promise and peril of basement apartments. The low-cost but often illegal type of housing provided a home for him and his family after they emigrated from Guyana in 1997 to ...

For New York City Council Member Darma Diaz, like so many others, an unsafe basement apartment once served as the only attainable option for housing. After many families living in illegal basement ...

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 ...

Residents of illegal basement apartments in Queens and Brooklyn should have the same rights as the artists who settled in old factories in SoHo decades ago, according to a new proposal from city ...