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In this article, the author talks about the take of New Yorkers on money. It mentions some buy fake purses to look richer, millionaire homeowners grumble about gentrification, billionaires envy the plumber, and about the only honest, well-adjusted people in town are down on Canal Street, waiting for the WandaCoach.

This article provides a weekly roundup of housing and land use-related events and hearings in New York City. It also includes information on upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. The events include meetings of the City Planning Commission, Landmarks Preservation Commission, and various committees of the NYC Council. Additionally, there is a rally in defense of rent regulation organized by the Crown Heights Tenant Union and Brooklyn Eviction Defense Tenant Union. The article also lists several subsidized buildings with closing lotteries for affordable housing. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the use of prevention strategies and fair housing laws by homeowners to keep them and their pets together. It discusses the "Three Month Law" or the Pet Law in New York City, which can be referred to by tenants if they are in conflict with their landlords. It cites the qualifications of tenants for emotional support animal (ESA) in New York City.

The article discusses various issues related to the real estate market of the U.S. It is stated that Housing Development Fund Inc. a housing group, handled 12 foreclosure cases in 2011 where the homeowners were incapable to pay their home loans. The article further mentions the development of a sports and entertainment complex in Chelsea Piers in the New York City, New York.

The article features the interior decoration of the living room at Joan Paternoster's 1920's Colonial home in New York City. Interior decorator and television host Thom Filicia who designed the room, created a room that reflects the owner's traditional taste, but with some contemporary touches. Thom added architectural interest to the room by painting the tray ceiling seafoam green and then enhancing it with gray trim.

The article discusses about the SALT provisions. Topics of discussion includes it disproportionately benefited richest people living in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California by offering them benefits to save thousands of dollars in annual federal taxes, while gifting the middle-class homeowner a negligible reduction.

A timeline is presented that offers information on the owners of a Greenwich Village, New York City townhouse famous for having been the site of an accidental explosion of a bomb created by the radical organization the Weather Underground at the address 18 West 11th Street.

The article discusses the highlights of the Third International Heating and Ventilating Exposition held at the Grand Central Palace in New York. The exhibits placed more emphasis on attracting the interest of homeowners, with products that have innovative designs. The product displays of Fox Furnace, Campbell Metal Window and York Ice Machinery Co. are available with flexible payment schemes.

The article reports that at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Wall Street Project Economic Summit on January 6, the discussion concerned the subprime mortgage crisis and how it is affecting the U.S. economy. The Reverend Jesse Jackson stated that African American homeowners have been hit hard by the crisis, and the Urban League claimed that much of black homeowners' net worth will be lost because of the mortgage situation.

The article talks about the homeowners in the United States investing less in remodeling their properties due to the slowdown in housing indicators, remodeling activities dropping in New York and increase in activities of Philadelphia due to increase in domestic migration.

The article reports that the New York City Council in December 1957 voted 20 to one to outlaw race restrictions in city private housing. Effective on April 1, 1958, it says that 1,787,000 nonrestricted apartments will be made available to all buyers and tenants. It also states that owners and landlords who refuse to sell or rent to Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, or other minority groups would face conciliation hearings before the new Fair Housing Practices Panel.

The article discusses the U.S. Treasury Department's new rule that requires information on buyers of luxury real estate in Manhattan, New York City via title insurance firms to stop illicit funds to the drug trade or others; things about the rule; and views of real estate attorney Ed Mermelstein.

The article reports that the residents of the Seward Park Cooperative, a four-building complex in New York City, will have to decide whether to embrace and profit from the explosion of construction around them or forgo a payday in an attempt to preserve the complex's light, air and views. The co-op's shareholders are expected to make a decision on the fate of the unused air rights. The potential sale of the air rights has split the residents of the complex.

A reprint of the article "Meet The Neighbors: Michael Dell And The Other Billionaires Living Atop New York City's One57," by Samantha Sharf, which appeared in the April 30, 2018 issue of the journal "Forbes," is presented. It discusses the revelations about billionaire Michael Dell as the owner of a penthouse in One57 condominiums overlooking Central Park. It mentions investor Lawrence Stroll who put his place at One57 on sale.

The article reports that a group of landlords and homeowners filed a lawsuit charging that New York City's property-tax system is unconstitutional. Topics discussed include demand of the lawsuit's architects, former state Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and former Department of Finance Commissioner Martha Stark, amount of property tax generated by the city in 2017, and significance of the case.

The article reports that about 5,700 new foreclosure cases were filed in Queens in New York City in 2009 , which is more than tripe the cases filed in 2005. It is stated that Queens is more vulnerable to foreclosures due to the prevalence of one- and two-family homes in low-income areas. It is mentioned that at the time when foreclosures are increasing, attrition from judges, clerks and support staff is being faced by the area

The article presents information on homeowner David Burton who cleared his backyard of his old house in Brooklyn, New York City, and added a patio and also planted it himself. Using a number of reference books, magazines, and the Internet, Burton learnt how to lay brick walls and patio pavers. Burton made lots of trips to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to collect details of plants for the garden.

The article reports that the mortgage crisis that sparked a wave of foreclosures is now responsible for a rising tide of bankruptcies in New York City. As reported, fueled in large part by the number of homeowners who could not keep up with monthly payments on subprime loans, 14,407 people filed for bankruptcy in the New York area during the first seven months of 2008, compared with 11,026 in that period last year.

The article reports on the mounted foreclosures of homeowners in New York City. The Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project revealed that since January 2007, lenders have foreclosed 7,000 family homes in the city, while expecting the figure to exceed 14, 000 by year end. Subprime loans were identified as the prime drivers of the situation. Meanwhile, agencies and housing groups are moving to help in the problem, like the $100 million program of the New York Mortgage Agency.

The article presents information on homeowners Paul DiMartino and his wife Nancye Good Spencer's Bed and Breakfast accommodation in Brooklyn, New York City. They are over a dozen Brooklyn entrepreneurs who have converted all or part of their homes to Bed and Breakfast accommodation in recent years in an effort to cash in on the wave of tourists and business travelers flooding the city.

The article focuses on the opportunity of Long Island homeowners experiencing high real estate taxes to request their town, village or country to reduce them in New York. They can either file their tax grievances through a solicitor or firm that registers them on behalf of third parties. Residents are also encourage to establish their home's present value.

This article reports that landlords and redevelopment officials fear that the downtown rental market will suffer following the December 31 expiration of a crucial real estate incentive program for small businesses. Despite the relative success of the World Trade Center small firm attraction and retention grant program (SFARG), landlords have the equivalent of more than 200 football fields of downtown office space to fill. Early reports show that SFARG, which provided $3,500 per employee to companies with fewer than 200 workers that leased new downtown offices, gave $140 million in benefits to more than 2,000 businesses. Landlord Brookfield Properties, which filled 1 million square feet of downtown office space last year with tenants both small and large, views the SFARG incentives as a major loss.

The cost of insuring homes is expected to rise by 2.8 percent in 2004, the smallest increase in five years, according to data released by the Insurance Information Institute (III) of Manhattan, New York City. The projected increase represents a substantial slowdown from 2003, when homeowners' insurance costs rose by an estimated 7.4 percent, the III says. The average cost for homeowners' insurance in 2004 is estimated at $608, up $17 from $591 in 2003. "Small decreases in the frequency and cost of claims have helped improve insurer financial performance, resulting in a significant moderation in the cost of homeowners' insurance in 2004," says Robert Hartwig, senior vice president and chief economist for III.

The article offers information on the rise in cost of condominiums in Manhattan, New York and owners of the apartments earning fast returns in short time frames. It mentions that sellers in New York benefited from a stronger market than the U.S. as a whole. Also includes statement of Gabby Warshawer, director of research at CityRealty, a New York residential data and listings website.