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NYC EDC City officials broke ground Monday on Hunter’s Point South Phase II, a massive affordable housing and commercial complex in Long Island City. Plans also include a waterfront park – seen in this rendering. City officials broke ground Monday on the latest phase of a massive affordable housing complex on a former…
Back in June of 2014, YIMBY reported on new building applications filed by JDS Development for a tower coming to 340 Flatbush Avenue Ext., on the southeastern edge of Downtown Brooklyn. Now, we have the first rendering and actual details for the SHoP-designed tower, which will rise 1,000 feet tall, claiming the title of New York…
START “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom END “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom SYRACUSE—This office looks like a pretty typical co-working space, what with the guy with a ponytail coding in one corner, the pile of bikes clustered in another, and the minimalist desks spread across a light-filled room. Troy Evans opened this space, CoWorks, in…
The mayor joined elected and city officials and the developers for a ceremonial dirt toss at the Beach Channel Senior Apartments site. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan FAR ROCKAWAY — More than two thirds of the new affordable housing planned for Queens will be built on the Rockaway peninsula, a flood zone still…
The Four Horsemen of Gentrification. Then I saw when the Landlord broke one of the rent-controlled seals. I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Gentrify.” I looked, and behold, a green horse, and he who sat on it had a mason jar; and a fedora was his…
The Driggs, a luxury apartment building in Brooklyn, received a $631,000 tax break this year. (Cezary Podkul/ProPublica) As gleaming new housing towers spring up around New York City, thousands of new rent-stabilized apartments are coming onto the market. And in return for following rent limits, developers get a share of $1 billion in property…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. That’s no different with Airbnb and Proposition F, merely the latest of San Francisco’s Brobdingnagian sagas over land-use politics that will go down in today’s election….
Startups don’t turn into unicorns — the buzzword for companies valued at a billion dollars or more — without a good story attached. For WeWork — which leases office space, divvies it up into desk-sized chunks, and rents it out month to month, largely in fashionable cities like San Francisco and New York — the…
Photo A Wework member working in one of the many unique spaces at Wework headquarters in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. Credit Cole Wilson for The New York Times WeWork, which rents out offices and desks to freelancers and budding companies, has been on a fund-raising tear. In just five years, the New…
Short-term rentals are not a significant factor in SF’s housing shortage. So why are people going crazy about this one company? Disclaimer: If you want to contact the author of this piece and accuse me of something, you can tweet at me. I also wrote a convenient FAQ for people who wanna call me “astroturf.” *** Last year,…