Ever wondered how long the average commute of a Bushwick resident is—or what percentage of the neighborhood was born abroad? Find out using CoreData.nyc!
New game give you perspective on real-life challenges facing old rental buildings.
Here are a few things to keep an eye out for when you’re negotiating with your landlord or prospective landlord about your living arrangement!
An annual report by real estate firm MNS states that at the end of the summer, the average rent for a Bushwick studio apartment increased by 9.06 percent, from $1,925 to $2,099.
A brooklyn resident posted the bogus listing to make apartment hunters consider the dire state of the housing situation in Bushwick.
The Bushwick Community Map integrates data from city records into an easily navigable resource for tenants and homeowners trying to stay abreast of changes to the neighborhood’s housing landscape.
The shutdown is coming—and rent increases are stagnating, but not dropping.
A former rehab facility on Bushwick’s DeKalb Ave is about to reopen as a 100-bed homeless shelter
Bushwick community members who occupy twenty-six apartments on the triangular block adjacent to the Myrtle Ave-Broadway station on the J, M and Z trains and who discovered last week that M train work will necessitate that they leave their homes for a definite 6-10 months and possibly much longer met Wednesday night to share their experiences and consider plans of action
Hundreds of Bushwick residents take to the streets today to protest deplorable living conditions faced by members of our own community
Excellent gentrification reporting is a major accomplishment
The FDNY put out a small kitchen fire following a report of smoke in a five story East Williamsburg mixed use residential building early Sunday morning, officials say
Tenants of a building long neglected by its landlord are seeking the appointment of a a city administrator to make their home livable again
Residents of a long-neglected Bushwick building have been evacuated from their home, which the city has declared unsafe—but their cats remain inside, and the neighbor who promised to care for them is unable to get to them
Last Friday, the New York Times real estate section declared, among some other provocative things, that
Commercial mortgage brokerage Eastern Union Funding announced yesterday that it has arranged a $13
We have a love-hate relationship with Craigslist, the home of the Missed Connection, the Second Hand Ikea Coffee Table, and the The Worst Room
We don’t need to remind you that Bushwick is rife with housing tragedies
NULL
Everyone’s heard at least one horror story about renting in New York City
The government’s budget deadline has passed, the Senate and the House were not able to agree on a spending bill because of last-ditch attempts by critics of the Affordable Care Act in the House who voted to defund the program, and the United States is going into federal government shutdown starting this morning
Photo from http://www.whytuesday.org/2010/10/28/bloomberg-thumbs-up-to-san-fran-weekend-voting/ …just kidding, kids can’t vote. But you can! And you should, if you want to avoid having your neighbors assume you’re a clueless transplant from the Midwest. Be the change you wish to see in the world, keep your rent from skyrocketing, or get a sticker. And NYC is doing everything within […]
In a city where everyone has a housing horror story, Preston Pujol’s tale of woe, reported by Annette Konoske Graf in the Brooklyn Ink last week, is still a knockout
By Mariya Pylayev