Apartment Rentals in New York City – what you need to know.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
How and when must a rental tenant agree to show their occupied apartment when the owner of the apartment wants to sell?
First, let me disclose that there are some negative reviews about RDNY.com on Yelp. There are also some very highly complimentary reviews of us, which we greatly appreciate. But I\’ve been pissed at Yelp for many months. They are definitely biased.
The Voice has been doing an outstanding service to the city\’s renters year after year by pointing out the worst of the worst landlords. Except we don\’t agree with all of there picks. But let\’s face it. There are at least a dozen ways to slice and dice your criteria, and everyone will come up with a different list of the worst.
A great website just came to my attention. I love this kind of stuff. ScoutingNY.com is just the sort of website that can easily consume a few hours of my time and get me moving around the city to see for myself.
Did you ever wonder how many public housing apartments there are in NYC?
Brooklyn Heights is one of the most beautiful places to live in New York.
THIRTY years ago, Broadway north of 96th Street was a vibrant but shabby area, its Hispanic groceries and Chinese restaurants mixed with declining Edwardian apartment houses and S.R.O. hotels. Now most of this stretch has turned over a gold-plated leaf.
New York hasn’t had a big earthquake in 126 years, and history suggests that we’re likely to have one every century or two. That said, we’re in little danger of a Chile-level megaquake—but it’s also true that the city’s buildings are vulnerable during even a moderate temblor.
CRUISER made four house calls on a recent rain-soaked Tuesday. There were two happy endings and two unhappy ones, a fairly typical outcome for a typical day in the life of a bedbug-sniffing puggle. “Except that there’s nothing typical about this business,” said his handler, Jeremy Ecker, 35, whose six-month-old company, the Bed Bug Inspectors, has vetted hotels, college dorms…
We have a different approach to bed bugs that not only involve pesticides but steam, We steam furniture, walls, doors and any crack and crevice where they might be hiding.
It must be getting close to lunch time. I can smell the aroma of world\’s greatest hot dogs and french fries. Real french fries, full of real potato. Not the frozen crap. This is a real deal. The New York original. Our gift to the world! So after a day of aparment hunting for the perfect apartment, do yourself a…
We\’ve brought you Craigslist scams and Craigslist nightmares, but now we present a bona fide Craigslist horror story! One unsuspecting Phoenix man recently moved into a shared home he found on the classified-ad web site, with no idea of the situation he was moving into.
Recent Los Angeles transplant Gabe Nies talks about raw, soul food restaurants, his fun building and the music on the streets of Harlem.
More freaky people on Craigslist with rooms for rent looking for you to move into their freaky habitats.
Change a New York apartment from a bachelor pad to an adult apartment for $8,000.
See where the major movies have been shot in New York.
Need an egg cream and Belgian fries at 3 a.m.? Then we need to keep stores like Ray\’s Candy Store in the East Village open, in spite of the bad economy.
NYC Renters have been having a good run the past year or so. But the party may be drawing to a close. The evidence, New York City apartment operators are gearing up to build new rental units.