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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

RELATED STORY: Ida: 1 year later, checking back with families whose basement apartments flooded Gov. Kathy Hochul has a proposal in this year's state budget that would give New York City authority ...

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 ...

Last year, New York City rolled out a pilot program that awarded 15 homeowners with up to nearly $400,000 in funding per household to build an extra dwelling in their backyard, basement ...

The future of a plan to bring more illegal New York City basement apartments out of the shadows and up to code could depend on whether Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers can reach a wide ...

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 ...