Rally held in Queens for legislation legalizing basement apartments 00:49. NEW YORK -- There was a rally in Queens on Friday calling for a law to legalize basement apartments.

Danny Hong indicates how high the water reached in his basement apartment in Flushing on September 2, 2021, after remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic and deadly torrential rain on New York City.

Making matters worse, tenants have no standing to take action against landlords if their homes aren’t up to snuff. In 2019, the city created the Basement Apartment Conversion Pilot Program to help low ...

A police officer stands guard as a man survey the damage to home where people died after their basement apartment flooded in the Jamaica neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, Thursday ...

As New York City sees more bouts of severe rain, the flood risk these storms pose to many basement apartment dwellers isn't being fully accounted for, according to a new report from the Federal ...

The fight to convert basements and cellars in New York City into safe apartments dates back over a decade. The Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone (BASE) coalition says that creating safety ...

But even then, Assembly Housing Committee Chair Linda Rosenthal downplayed the possibility that the bill that would legalize certain basement and cellar apartments would get included. Although New ...

New York is known as the city of dreams, and I'm a free spirit. So, I put a deposit on the micro-apartment in January 2022 and moved into it, the following month.

This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Here’s a prewar one-bedroom with rounded corners and built-ins for $1,960. business of brokering May 22, 2025 ...

In NYC’s Basement Apartments, Deadly Flood Risks Remain One year after Hurricane Ida, tenants in below-ground units are still vulnerable to storm flooding — as are 25% of the city’s ...

More than two years ago, Hurricane Ida claimed the lives of 11 New Yorkers in flooded, mostly-illegal basement apartments. The deluge of rain that hit New York City on Friday prompted concerns ...

NEW YORK — A woman was taken to a hospital after crashing through the floor of her apartment into the building’s basement. City officials described the incident as a partial collapse and told ...