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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It would cost the Big Apple nearly $14 billion to bring the estimated 50,000 illegal basement apartments across New York City up to code, The Post has learned.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As flash floods inundated New York City, Mayor Eric Adams said: "If you're home, stay home." But for those living in below-ground apartments in basements and cellars, that was not an option. An ...