Real Estate
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How Long Can My Building Keep Scaffolding Up?
Q: My large, rent-stabilized building in New York City has been encased in scaffolding with a sidewalk shed for over…
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Homes That Sold for Around $1.35 Million
Each week, our survey of recent residential sales in New York City and the surrounding region focuses on homes that…
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Workers in the Catskills Can’t Find Housing. Bosses Are Trying to Help.
Cooped up in the city during the pandemic, New Yorkers flocked to Hudson Valley for the fresh air, spacious yards…
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The Rats Next Door Are Dangerous. What Can I Do About It?
Q: There is a co-op near where I live on the Upper West Side that has shrubbery with rat holes…
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The Art of Making Garden Rooms
It’s the key question in making any garden: How do you get all the plants you can’t resist and the…
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One Woman’s Life in Subsidized Housing, and Her Campaign to Fix It
Most mornings, La Keesha Taylor spends a few minutes in bed with her eyes open after she wakes up, sizing…
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How Soon Is Too Soon to Ask My Landlord About a Rent Increase?
Q: For nine years, my husband and I have rented a market-rate apartment on the Upper West Side. The building…
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It’s Time to Slow Down and Appreciate Nature’s Tiny Marvels
“Look at that caterpillar,” Andrew J. Brand said one afternoon, as we passed a hummocky old bottlebrush buckeye shrub in…
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Kevin McKenzie and Martine van Hamel: On the Zen of Escaping City Life
Kevin McKenzie and Martine van Hamel were standing in the dining room of their weekend house in Woodstock, N.Y., trying…
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Two Homes That Nourish a Family’s Many Creative Pursuits
Before Hurricane Sandy, Nhi Mundy had a good life in the financial district with her family. She and her husband,…