A wave of new construction for backyard and basement apartments on the lots of existing one- and two-family homes — known as ...

New York City just unveiled its newest effort, which will hand 15 homeowners up to $395,000 to build an additional apartment. This could mean an extra unit in a garage, basement, or attic ...

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 ...

A year after the remnants of Hurricane Ida killed 13 New York City residents, 11 of them having drowned in basement apartments, the city and state have made little progress in legalizing unauthorized ...

must press the City Council and State Legislature to take action and get basement and cellar units on a path to being safe and legal before the next big storm. It’s the least New York can do ...

Brian Kavanagh and Assembly member Harvey Epstein on late Wednesday amended their bill to let New York City create an amnesty program for owners to rent out their currently illegal basement and ...

New York City fire prevention inspectors checking a tip about a collection of e-bike batteries posing a potential hazard discovered 40 migrants sleeping in a Queens basement behind a furniture ...

In 2019, the city created the Basement Apartment Conversion Pilot Program to help low-income homeowners in East New York and Cypress Hills renovate their below-ground units with financial and ...

The deluge came two years after the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record-breaking rain on the Northeast and killed at least 13 people in New York City, mostly in flooded basement apartments.