Month: February 2018

A Lower Manhattan community leader was one of a select group honored Monday evening at the annual “50 Over 50” reception, which recognizes the contributions of made by two score and ten public servants who have reached the half-century mark. Ninfa Segarra, who stepped down last autumn as the chair of Community Board 1’s Battery...

A new report from a team of researchers in the School of Urban Planning at Canada’s McGill University finds that short-term apartment rentals, such as those brokered by Airbnb, are playing havoc with New York City housing, by increasing rents and decreasing the available supply of apartments. More specifically, the report (which was commissioned by...