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

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

When their Ditmas Park apartment became too cramped, a young family looked for a house in central Brooklyn where they could ...

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 ...

Thousands of New Yorkers living in basement apartments without basic safety protections could soon see their homes legalized under long-awaited rules the city released this week — more than four years ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Mayor Eric Adams announced a pilot program to let landlords bring illegal underground units up to code. Under the proposed plan, people would be allowed to remain in illegal ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced a pilot program to let landlords bring illegal underground units up to code. Under the proposed plan, people would be allowed to remain in illegal units in cases where ...

Immigration agents entered a basement apartment in Queens, New York, forcibly knocked down the door, and pointed firearms at ...

Two men died during a record-breaking rainfall that drenched the New York City metro area Thursday afternoon — a 39-year-old man found unconscious and unresponsive in a flooded basement in ...