A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...

A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890. Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images 2023-03-24T15:40:31Z ...

Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the ...

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