Akelius planning to overhaul Fiorella La Guardia’s former home
Akelius Real Estate Management is adding 16 new apartments to an East Harlem rental building where the late New...
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Money for nothing: Landlords are accused of overcharging tenants for poor renovation work, but is state law to blame?
When Clem Chan and his husband Matthew Haensly signed the lease for their Sunnyside apartment, they thought the landlord was giving them a deal....
Another kind of building boom: Private school construction is a $1B biz
Private K-12 school renovations have become fertile ground for construction companies as parents and administrators increasingly push for both...
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Warhol protégée “Baby Jane” suing neighbor over mansion renovation
Andy Warhol’s protégée “Baby Jane” Holzer isn’t taking her neighbor’s disruptive home renovation lying down. Holzer recently filed a...
CL Investment secures $55M in financing for 287 PAS renovation
Less than a year after it bailed on a $300 million condominium plan, Chinese developer CL Investment Group is...
No golden toilets at Bronstein apartments, 67 tenants allege in lawsuit
Over 60 tenants in buildings owned by Bronstein Properties allege the purported costs of renovations made to their rent...
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Hundreds of Hamptonites are signing a petition to stop plans for a “McMansion”
Venture capitalist Ken Fox is causing quite a stir in his idyllic Southampton neighborhood. Plans to expand his lake-front...
A building boom, on the inside
You see the cranes, but you probably don’t see the guys doing the drywall. Money spent doing construction work on existing buildings rose for the third consecutive year in 2016, according to an analysis...
These East Village landlords are working their buildings the hardest
Some multifamily landlords buy and hold, gradually stacking up income from their properties, making repairs as problems arise —...
NYPL breaks ground on $22M Harlem renovation project
Yesterday, the New York Public Library broke ground on a $22 million renovation of the Schomburg Center for Research...