Victorian New York had a social hierarchy ... “Five Cents a Spot,” showing an illegal housing arrangement in a Bayard Street tenement. (1889) (public domain) Today, one can see tangible ...

The problem is that City of Yes was an open call to build with no requirements that lost affordable units be replaced.

They are called "old-law tenements" because they were built ... is a backlog of 120,000 applicants for public housing in the city of New York. Only 10 percent of the applicants make it in any ...

More of Mei’s relatives immigrated to New York and her family would house ... she sees that most of the rent-regulated tenement housing stock is occupied by aging tenants. According to experts ...

EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (PIX11) – Three remodeled tenement buildings ... Equality and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. They include new plumbing, HVAC, security and ...