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Landlords.
bad landlords
Mar. 22, 2024
What Happens After Your Landlord Is Arrested? As Daniel Ohebshalom begins a 60-day sentence at Rikers, his tenants are about to find out.
affordable housing
Feb. 12, 2024
The Eco-Yogi Slumlord House Is For Sale But you’ll have to win the city’s notoriously dysfunctional housing lottery first.
My New Apartment’s Most Aggravating Feature New York homes come with standard headaches. This might be the dumbest one yet.
The Landlords Are Merging Two organizations representing owners of rent-stabilized buildings across the city may be teaming up because one of them is going broke.
By Clio Chang
Landlord King Charles Has Shady Methods He’s been secretly upgrading his portfolio with money from his dead subjects.
By Clio Chang
Rent Stabilization Isn’t Going to the Supreme Court This Time The justices declined to hear a case against rent regulation brought by New York landlord groups. But there will be others.
By Clio Chang
the business of brokering
Sept. 28, 2023
I Didn’t Know My Broker Was a Bot Renters hoping to meet Brook E. and Emily O. at that Greenpoint open house will be sorely disappointed.
By Clio Chang
the rent is too damn high
Sept. 18, 2023
Zombie Renovations Are Coming Landlords are claiming that work completed decades ago is grounds to take a building out of rent regulation. What’s a tenant supposed to do?
By Clio Chang
please be advised
Sept. 11, 2023
Ask an Airbnb Host If You Can Rent Their Apartment With a little convincing, that soon-to-be de-listed garden unit could be yours.
By Clio Chang
Airbnb Hosts Are Feeling Abandoned As the city prepares to crack down on short-term rentals, the hosts say the company is out of its depth.
By Molly Osberg
the rent is too damn high
July 14, 2023
Are the Landlords Bluffing? They say thousands of rent stabilized apartments are too cheap and too far gone to rent. You’ll just have to take their word for it.
By Clio Chang
the rent is too damn high
Apr. 20, 2023
By Kim Velsey
Your Landlord Might Be a Baby Parents are buying investment properties for their infants.
By Molly Osberg
psst it’s expensive real estate
Mar. 21, 2023
By Rebecca Alter
landlords and tenants
Mar. 8, 2023
By Clio Chang
What If We Made It Easier for Renters to Buy Their Buildings? A new bill in Albany, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, would give them time and funding to be the first in line.
By Wilfred Chan
the rent is too damn high
Feb. 28, 2023
Is Anyone Tipping Their Landlord? Probably not. And yet people keep asking!
By Clio Chang
landlords and tenants
Nov. 3, 2022
California Has a Brand-new, Very Tiny Renters’ Caucus Talking to the chair of the four-member group about skyrocketing costs, landlord colleagues, and what he pays for a one-bedroom.
By Alissa Walker
curbed glossary
Oct. 17, 2022
The Helicopter Landlord Lives Downstairs And wonders if the guy who was over last night is your new boyfriend or just a friend.
By Clio Chang
street fights
Sept. 27, 2022
By Clio Chang
The Small, Litigious New York Real-Estate Dynasty You’ve Never Heard Of Suing your own mother for being a “slumlord” is just the tip of the iceberg.
By Bridget Read
the rent is too damn high
June 22, 2022
Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More Expensive The Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
By Clio Chang
Housing Court Is Breaking Watching the quiet chaos unfold in a Queens courtroom.
By Bridget Read
coronavirus
Sept. 10, 2020
A Key Law Protecting Bar and Restaurant Owners Could Get Extended The New York City Council is considering whether to suspend personal-liability provisions in commercial leases through March.
By Chris Crowley
coronavirus
Sept. 1, 2020
CDC Issues Eviction Moratorium Until Year’s End In a surprise move of sweeping scope, upwards of 40 million renters will be temporarily protected from evictions, though not from liability for rent.
By Ed Kilgore
Mike Schur and Matt Murray Developing ‘Landlords’ Comedy at NBC Mike Schur has a new comedy in the works at NBC. According to Variety, the network has put into development a comedy produced by Schur and […]
By Megh Wright
comedy dynasties
Oct. 28, 2016
Is Mike Schur Becoming the Shonda Rhimes of NBC? The peacock could be creating its own “Schurland.”
By Kaitlin Fontana
bad landlords
May 9, 2016
By Joe DeLessio
gentrification
May 12, 2015
Grim, Racist Methods of One Brooklyn Landlord He explains the tricks he uses to get black renters — and even owners — out of their homes in gentrifying neighborhoods.
By DW Gibson
Danny Meyer Says Rising Rents Are Crushing New York’s Neighborhood “There are neither victims nor villains in this story,” Meyer writes.
By Hugh Merwin
Lulu’s Proprietor Says Landlord Won’t Let Him Reopen As Gay Bar The lease says it can’t “operate as a gay or lesbian bar and/or restaurant.”
By Clint Rainey
famous landladies
Feb. 28, 2014
By Maggie Lange
real estate
Feb. 14, 2014
By S. Jhoanna Robledo
things that are scary
July 27, 2013
By Delia Paunescu
worst landlords
June 10, 2012
Bad New York Landlords, Part XLVI Remember that fire-escape-less Bronx building?
By Andre Tartar
horrible inconveniences
June 5, 2012
Entire Bronx Building Wins Worst Hotel Trip Ever Everyone’s getting kicked out of their homes because the fire escapes were removed.
By Joe Coscarelli
Flay Says Mesa Grill Might Not Be Moving After All “We’re renegoiating the lease … We hope to stay there.”
By Alan Sytsma
occupy wall street
Sept. 26, 2011
By Joe Coscarelli
early and often
Mar. 25, 2011
By Nitasha Tiku
early and awkward
Nov. 23, 2010
Rahm Emanuel Has the Worst Tenant Ever He’s running against Rahm for mayor of Chicago.
By Dan Amira
Bedbugs Are the New STDs Landlords are legally required to fill out a new disclosure form for bedbugs.
By Nitasha Tiku
resident evil
Aug. 30, 2010
Slumlord Watch List: New York’s 153 Worst Landlords There was something lurking in Lakisha Haywood’s toilet.
By Nitasha Tiku
City Agencies Descend on Lead- and Asbestos-Choked Apthorp Building The Apthorp tenants were always an eye-rollingly wheedling bunch, but it’s hard to argue with a laundry list of wipe samples quoting six to ten times the legal amounts of lead in the air.
By Michael Idov
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