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For Dottie Calhoun, a Brooklyn landlord, owning property sometimes feels like treading water with pockets full of stones. 'Sometimes it seems like no matter how hard you try, you can't […]

Lou-Anne Walters and her mother had barely finished arranging furniture and hanging family photos in the apartment they bought in Brooklyn six years ago when their co-op started its free […]

Lou-Anne Walters and her mother had barely finished arranging furniture and hanging family photos in the apartment they bought in Brooklyn six years ago when their co-op started its free […]

City housing inspectors will get special training to better recognize the kind of structural problems that caused the partial collapse of a Harlem building last month in which three people […]

When 10-year-old Chris Frye peers from his window to the parking lot of the dilapidated Queens public housing complex where he lives, his mind's eye often sees a skating rink, […]

Throwing a financial lifeline to scores of cooperative apartment buildings in New York City, a consortium of banks has put up $100 million to help rescue co-ops that were hit […]

When Peter Spagnuolo first saw the building on East 13th Street that he now calls home it was little more than a roofless hulk -- burned by arsonists and stripped […]

Some nights, Diane Dawson lies awake wondering if the noises she hears are drug addicts creeping into the empty apartments scattered throughout her building in Mott Haven, the Bronx. The […]

Trying a new tactic to rid New York City of the costly burden of managing apartment buildings, the Giuliani administration announced yesterday that it would turn several hundred city-owned buildings […]

As the region's real-estate market slowly emerges from a five-year hibernation, buyers and sellers in both New York City and the surrounding areas are finding what seems to be a […]

As the Giuliani administration tries to rid the city of the expensive task of managing thousands of homes and apartment buildings taken for nonpayment of taxes, a new wave of […]

A Federal court yesterday upheld the selection process for a new public housing project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that Hispanic residents there have charged favors the community's Hasidic families. The decision, […]

More than 15 years ago, people who lived near a rubble-strewn city-owned lot on West 84th Street got tired of the drug users and illegal garbage-dumpers the empty space was […]

After years of the fear and uncertainty of living in dilapidated apartments with drug-dealing neighbors, tenants at 526 West 158th Street in Manhattan had reason for hope when, with the […]

BY early next year Stef and Linda Fogelson expect to be in the two-story French Provincial-style home they are building on a two-acre wooded lot in Chappaqua, N.Y. The Fogelsons […]

IN a city where space is the most precious commodity, the studio apartment is accepted as full-fledged housing by many New Yorkers for whom fold-away furniture and closet-sized kitchens are […]

IN the New York region's troubled home market, the rental alternative is becoming an increasingly attractive temporary haven for many would-be sellers and buyers. Among them are Samuel and Giedra […]

LEAD: Free-market apartments - those in which landlords and tenants set the rents and services through private negotiations - are growing in number in New York City. As a result, […]

LEAD: Aftershocks from the collapse of the Silverado Savings and Loan Association in Denver are shaking a Manhattan cooperative near Lincoln Center, where residents have become the reluctant partners of […]

LEAD: THE wave of conversions that moved across New York City in the 1980's and transformed some 300,000 rental apartments into cooperatives and condominiums has slowed dramatically. THE wave of […]

LEAD: The Right to Stabilization The Right to Stabilization Question: I am an out-of-state resident with an apartment in New York City where I stay during the week to be […]

After eight years of often acrimonious debate over a proposal to develop 34 remaining acres of the defunct Englewood Golf and Country Club, the Englewood, N.J., City Council has tentatively […]

Efforts to resuscitate the Northstage Theater in Glen Cove, L.I., failed last year when the 450-seat playhouse, which had most recently done duty as a dinner theater, was closed. But […]

LEAD: Tenant Rights in a Sale Question: I am the leaseholder on a town house in a rent-stabilized complex that includes five apartments and three town houses. Access to the […]

LEAD: Terrace Cookout Question: I have seen newspaper articles recently about people cooking outdoors on apartment terraces and on balconies and in back yards. I thought terrace cooking was illegal. […]