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Real Estate

Washington Heights Sees White-Collar Boom

Lured by low rents, corporations are seeking space in Northern Manhattan. The trend has complex implications for existing small businesses and nearby residents who are unemployed.

Union Wage Push Meets Resistance

The City Council might require buildings that receive tax breaks to pay their staff higher wages. The real estate industry opposes the idea. Where does the mayor stand?

A Quiet Alarm Sounds

A multimedia art exhibit in Fort Greene examines the neighborhood-changing going on all around it.

Fewer Services For The Homeless

Mayor Bloomberg's big goals to cut homelessness in half and greatly expand affordable housing are being reinterpreted in the next budget.

A New Tool For Tenants

Renters beware: You may be on a blacklist. But now there's a path to clear your name.


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NYC Groups Ask Feds To Scold Bank - Gena Mangiaratti

A coalition of economic advocacy groups wants a federal bank regulator to give JP Morgan Chase a poor grade for its compliance with an anti-redlining law.

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1969: Urban Design, Manhattan

In this report, RPA asked, "Are there better design principles than those which today produce nearly uniform office buildings running in slab formation like dominoes up midtown avenues?"

HPD letter to holding company in Milbank buildings case

The 10 Milbank buildings are seen as a test case of what happens when low-income multiunit buildings fall into foreclosure. Concerned over conditions at the buildings in this Bronx portfolio, the city is demanding answers from the holding company.

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