NYC has published draft guidelines to launch a pilot program legalizing basement apartments for qualifying one- and ...

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 ...

Thousands of New Yorkers living in basement apartments without basic safety protections could soon see their homes legalized ...

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 ...

There could soon be an influx of basement apartments in New York City, at a time when the city’s affordable housing crisis has become all the more dire. City Council members Brad Lander, Fernando ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Mayor Eric Adams announced a pilot program to let landlords bring illegal underground units up to ...

The Adams administration on Monday announced its proposed criteria for legalizing basement and cellar apartments.The Authorization for Temporary Residence pilot program, which was included in the City ...

A reader asks: I am living in a basement at [address withheld] and just wanted to know if it is legal. It is a walk-in basement and the situation I am facing living in the basement is unbearable. City ...

For too long, too many New Yorkers have been forced into dangerous basement and cellar set ups just to find a place to live." ...

In Ilioupoli, a quiet, residential district south of Athens in Greece, Point Supreme Architects were tasked with converting a ...

Deborah Torres, right, talks to police officers in Queens, where three people died after their basement apartment flooded. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock Eight ...