NEW YORK, June 21 (Xinhua) -- As food, gas and housing all cost more than they did the month before, never mind last year, those without disposable income have had a daunting landscape to navigate and are forced to wonder how far can a dollar stretch if prices keep increasing and wages...
The article reports on the ongoing construction of a $10 million foundation to allow the 11-story tower of a $40 million apartment building in Brooklyn, New York to cantilever up to 47 feet over two subway tunnels underfoot. The Schermerhorn House project will contain 189 units for the ...
Ideally, your housing costs should beno more than 30%of your net income. This is unrealistic in some places, but the closer you can get, the better. If you can’t stay below 30%, you’ll have to make it up in other areas.
The rule of thumb is that your housing expenses should beno more than 30% ofyour income. But not all of us are adhering to this rule. More than a quarter of Americans are paying 50% of their income on housing. If you’re among them, it will be almost impossible to get out of debt...
The S.U.N. campaign is the first successful solar group purchasing campaign that focuses on multifamily affordable housing in NYC. “Replicating this innovative model in similar neighborhoods is crucial to expanding access to solar energy to urban communities, particularly low and moderate-inc...
Energy P Domestic electricity generation with storage Electricity generated domestically stored in a battery system to maximize own-consumption Tesla Powerwall S P2P electricity trading Networks of households for trading surplus electricity generated domestically. Brooklyn Microgrid p Electric vehicle-to-grid ...
A LEEP would incubate new project ideas rapidly and flexibly, supporting difficult to finance up-front legal and engineering work to design mixed-use, affordable housing starting in central “zero-emissions” districts, or to enable building owners, utilities, financial institutions, and new energy ...
Edwin W. Becker was born on 10 December 1912 in Brooklyn. He moved to the Albany area in the 1930s, eventually living on Nathaniel Boulevard in the suburb of Delmar, and enlisted in the Signal Corps during World War II. An employee of the New York State Department of Civil Service, he...
This was possible, through the “East Ithaca” station, before the rails were ripped out in the 1950s. One section of the route within Ithaca proper has had housing built on it, which is super annoying, but the rest hasn’t (though it does run through people’s backyards within Ithaca...
assets. For example, following Tropical Storm Ida in September 2021, Con Edison outlined areas with important community assetsas priorities for restoring power. Manhattan had power back within hours, while many low-income and largely nonwhite parts of Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn waited for days...