A 72-year-old Tribeca artist is facing eviction from the rent-stabilized apartment she has occupied for more than 40 years, after a judge ruled that she illegally rented her home out via Airbnb. Eileen Hickey allegedly posted notices on the website that brokers short-term rentals starting in 2012, which her landlord, Robert Moskowitz detected two years...
An image from the GoFundMe page created by Eileen Hickey, as she sought to raise money to fight eviction from her rent-stabilized apartment in Tribeca.
The September 11 Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) announced in its most recent update that is has awarded upwards of $3.6 billion to more than 19,000 claimants who suffered personal injury as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. The vast majority of these injuries take the form of illness...
The VCF's map of the "exposure zone" that defines geographic eligibility for compensation. A VCF award also requires that the applicant demonstrate his or her presence within this zone between September 11, 2001 and May 30, 2002.
If Downtown seems jammed by day, but sparsely peopled after the sun goes down, you’re not imagining things. A new data visualization tool shows that Lower Manhattan experiences the second biggest differential between day and night populations of any neighborhood in Manhattan — and, by extension, of any location in America. “Manhattan Population Explorer,” an...
By day, Lower Manhattan's total headcount swells to more than 480,000 people, according to "Manhattan Population Explorer," a new data visualization tool that charts the swing in the number of occupants of various neighborhoods every 24 hours. This graphic shows the combined neighborhoods of Battery Park City, the Financial District, the South Street Seaport, Tribeca, Soho, and Little Italy on a typical Wednesday at 2:00 pm.
An eight-month study by Community Board 1 (CB1) indicates that New York’s failure to implement development impact fees — levies based on the policy that new building projects should directly pay at least a portion of the cost of providing additional public services, the need for which would not arise without the development — has...
If impact fees, like those in effect in San Francisco, had been applied to the 173 new residential developments in Lower Manhattan since 2000, the community would have netted $240 million in funds for schools, parks, and other forms of civic infrastructure.
Residents of Lower Manhattan who lease (rather than own) their apartments are collectively paying more than $49 million per year in extra rent as a result of price pressures caused by Airbnb, the online “homesharing” marketplace and hospitality service that brokers short-term lodging in exchange for a percentage of the fee charged to the guest...
This map, from the Airbnb website, shows 18 overnight apartment rentals recently offered in Battery Park City. State and City government officials argue that such offerings are, in almost all cases, illegal.
State Senator Brian Kavanagh will host his first annual District Community Convention on Sunday (May 6), at Stuyvesant High School (345 Chambers Street, at the corner of North End Avenue), from 2:00 through 5:00 pm. Constituents are invited to hear informational presentations about issues of local concern, ask the Senator questions, and participate in working...
State Senator Brian Kavanagh, who will lead a Community Convention this Sunday at Stuyvesant High School: "We look forward to hearing from everyone about the issues people care about and how we can all focus our energy on making government work better."
