After losing a bidding war to buy a place in Queens, we were running out of hope. So, we were thrilled when our below-asking offer was quickly accepted for a spot in Forest Hills. Pretty quickly, we ...
Last weekend, the first wave of extremely lucky residents moved into 31 units at Hunter's Point South Commons—one of two government-subsidized 'affordable' housing towers in Long Island City that ...
In Refinery29's Sweet Digs, we take a look inside the sometimes small, sometimes spacious homes of millennial city dwellers. Today, cousins and best friends 32-year-old Alicia Martinez and 30-year-old ...
A Queens family of 11 besieged by an army of roaches will get a new place to live right away — likely in Staten Island, the Housing Authority promised on Monday. Warda Ibrahim, 37, her husband Tarek ...
Jaime Welker had lived for some 20 years in her beloved Queen Anne neighborhood when, in 2009, her landlord decreed yet another rent increase that brought her two-bedroom apartment to $1,200 a month — ...
When my husband and I married in 2008, we made a big mistake. Though at the time, it felt like a good investment. We bid adieu to our beloved two-bedroom Astoria, Queens rental and bought an apartment ...