New affordable housing development underway
A new development with 66 apartments is under construction on Brook Avenue, as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Housing New York plan to build 200,000 units of affordable housing…
Tenants still in limbo
A proposal for a noted nonprofit housing group to take over a troubled Melrose apartment building was scuttled at the last minute, upsetting beleaguered tenants – including some on the…
Tenants denounce greedy landlords
Tenants of a group of neglected apartment buildings-- including one in Mott Haven and another in Melrose -- are urging a federal judge to put the properties into the hands…
Tenants say urgent repairs fall short
A private equity firm that bought a foreclosed Melrose apartment building has made shoddy repairs under pressure, leaving families in substandard housing, tenants charge.
Melrose tenants endure slum conditions
Stabilis specializes in acquiring run-down properties, and housing advocates say it milks buildings for profit without regard to their tenants.
PS 31 faces wrecking ball
The city's buildings department and landmarks commission are at loggerheads over the fate of the historic Castle on the Concourse.
Officials, groups urge city to preserve PS 31
Officials and local groups are scrambling to keep the city from demolishing historic PS 31 building as the landmarked building on the Grand Concourse continues to crumble,
Homes, hearts sink on Prospect Ave.
Homeowners in a 114-home development between Morrisania and Longwood are coping with cracked walkways, sinking yards and plummeting values.