The big homebuilders, the pros in the housing market, have figured out how to deal with this market and make deals. Unlike homeowners sitting on vacant houses waiting for whatever, they have to build and sell houses to keep their revenues flowing and to kee...
Linda Wilson, the regional manager for the NYC Department of Education’s Queens Students in Temporary Housing, took her two daughters on city-funded excursions while encouraging her colleagues to do the same with their families, according to the SCI report released this month. While some students...
Besides providing relatively low-cost rent in an increasingly expensive city, several NYCHA housing developments actively provides opportunities for residents to establish or strengthen social ties. For example, among NYCHA's 325 developments, there are 121 senior centers, which represent almost half of...
For example, new developments and existing irrigation water use. Clear Rules • Don’t have the rules depend on specific personnel, as they may favor communities differently. Accessible Information • Make information accessible for communities and water users. This information would be conducive ...
Most of the apartments are vacant the vast majority of the year, because they were not bought as housing but as investments—a system of storing value far more cumbersome than Aztec calendar disks. Two rich people who seem to have actually lived here are Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez. ...
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GIVE ME SHELTER…At left, Carol Aronovici’s companion book to the exhibition, with a cover image of the Siemensstadt Housing Development in Berlin, by Walter Gropius; above, excerpts from Lewis Mumford’s essay in the book; below, entrance to the exhibit. (MoMA) Mumford reviewed the exhi...
In some building developments, in some countries, whole flats with internal features like their bathrooms, bedrooms and connecting stairs, and weighing as much as twenty tons, are carried to the building-site ready-made. A giant overhead crane is used to lift them into position. In the future...
Congratulations are in order to The Dakota, a cooperative apartment that was constructed in Manhattan's Upper West Side between 1880 and 1884. It was among the first large developments constructed on the Upper West Side. It is also one of the oldest remaining luxury buildings in NYC, making ...
After marrying the older, wealthier Trevor, Teresa Holder has transformed herself into upper-class Therese Thorn, complete with her own homeware business. But when rumours of corruption gather around one of Trevor’s property developments, the fallout is swift, and Therese begins to reevaluate her...