The new law, sponsored by Sen. Julia Salazar, allows loft tenants to seek redress in housing court when their essential services like heat and water are neglected or denied.
In New York City, all tenants have a right to heat. Here’s what to do if your apartment doesn’t have it.
If you’re living with a toxic roommate, what can you legally do to separate yourself from the situation?
What exactly are your rights as a tenant in this city, and what are the legal obligations of landlords?
Local nonprofit helps tenants fight against housing displacement, landlord harassment, and gentrification
In this Tenant’s Rights Spotlight we discuss how much your landlord can raise your rent and why.
El Puente in partnership with Assemblywoman Davila, is hosting a free Bushwick & Williamsburg CommUNITY Resource Fair on Saturday, August 24, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Maria Hernandez Park.
Are landlords allowed to evict you for having pets?
Deadlines are next week, hurry to apply!
If your current bank is missing some of these important qualities then it’s time to find a bank that offers the value–and values–you deserve.
“People are becoming homeless.”
Viveros are places where animals are slaughtered per order in the neighborhood.
Bushwick was the center of rumors about checkpoints and arrests over the weekend, making it difficult to separate fact from fiction.
For the 28th year in a row, thousands of donated coats will be counted, sorted and distributed to organizations serving the homeless and other low-income New Yorkers by New York Cares volunteers.
“Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Stories of Community and Resilience from Public Housing” opens at Silent Barn’s Disclaimer Gallery on Friday, September 9th.
An expert panel on gentrification versus affordable housing in New York City filled audience members with frustration—and hope.
In a new report released by the ANHD, researchers culled data from multiple sources in order to find how many threats to affordable housing exist in many of New York City’s neighborhoods
It’s no joke: New York City rents have skyrocketed in the past few years, and will continue to climb for the foreseeable future
A civic organization, North West Bushwick Community (NWBC), whose missions is to advocate against the displacement of Bushwick’s longtime working-class residents and for accountability from developers, has requested that members of Bushwick community sign a petition pressuring the developer of Rheingold luxury condos to build promised affordable housing and to provide local jobs
Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC’s neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other
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All photos by Lucia Reed for Bushwick Daily On a recent rainy Sunday, I bundled up and hustled across Bushwick. I was coming from a meeting with the owner of Bootleg Bar, which just opened up on Myrtle and Bleeker, and I was rushing to a panel on affordable housing being held at Radio Bushwick. […]
For the next two Wednesdays, People’s Justice an anti-police brutality NYC organization will be hosting two related trainings: one for Know Your Rights and the other for Cop Watch
We don’t need to remind you that Bushwick is rife with housing tragedies
Everyone’s heard at least one horror story about renting in New York City
It’s been a real week here in Bushwick already, friends
Bushwick Bill is wagin’ some Spiritual Warfare on a live band version of his 2009 LP, My Testimony of Redemption
Bushwick is divided between the 34th and the 37th Council districts
Before “affordable housing” became a politically charged buzzword, it must have once seemed like a laughable redundancy
“It’s not about a ceasefire or not about not a ceasefire”
“Really big deal,” says local pol
Safety concerns and money mixups now plague a luxury housing development In Bushwick