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October 2022

Living in the Shadows
The city wants to help tenants in illegal apartments. But will the plan hurt them too?
New York City Council Weighs Rent Regulation on Commercial Spaces
The city has not seen commercial rent regulation in more than fifty years. The new bill amidst skyrocketing rents, pandemic and Inflation aims to change…
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RentWire Reporters
One Building, Two Worlds
The stubborn persistence of the “poor door”
Frigid Apartment or Crushing Debt?
As utility debt reaches record amounts, New Yorkers brace for another cold season.

November 2021

Washed away by the High Line
By Sicheng Wan
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RentWire Reporters
Overlooked No More
Flatiron joins the ranks of New York’s luxury addresses
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Vanessa Blankenship
Coffee Rules in Manhattan: Despite COVID-19 and a changing city landscape, bean-centric businesses thrive
By Akane Ka
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RentWire Reporters
Proliferation of methadone clinics threaten Harlem’s boom
The neighborhood has more than any other in New York City
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Chantal Vaca
Is it El Barrio? Or is it the Upper East Side?
Spanish Harlem is changing, slowly and inexorably. What does it stand to lose?
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Shira Moolten
Illegal Dwellings Challenged by Ida
Climate change and a failed conversion program threaten the most vulnerable in the city
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María Erives
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