Jun. 30, 2025 By Adam Daly The Rent Guidelines Board voted Monday evening to increase the rent for the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments, a decision that appeased neither smaller landlords nor tenant activists. Stabilized renters with one-year leases can expect a 3% hike in their rents, while those with two-year leases will…
Feb. 14, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Northwest Queens, which includes the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside, experienced year-over-year growth across all price trend indicators during the first month of 2025, according to a report by the real estate firm Douglas Elliman Real Estate. The median rent across northwest Queens increased 6.3% year-over-year,… Read more »
Jun. 17, 2024 By Barbara Russo and Dean Moses The Rent Guidelines Board voted Monday night to increase the rent for more than 1 million rent-stabilized tenants in the face of infuriated advocates who protested the decision. Hundreds took to the streets on the Upper East Side with dozens blocking the entrance to Hunter…
Jul. 31, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed During one of the hottest days in New York City on Thursday, July 27, Imran Patel, a Flushing resident at 140-60 Beech Ave. claimed that he and his family are facing eviction by Jamaica-based real estate company Zara Realty for putting an air conditioner in their apartment. “We’re in…
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