Inside Stories

A row of Brooklyn apartment buildings.
Roommates + Landlords
My NYC rental felt unsafe, but a squatter using the basement as a bathroom was the last straw
By Celia Young |August 7, 2023 - 1:30PM
Hand pushing elevator buttons.
Live
I live in a five-floor NYC townhouse with a private elevator
By Mimi OConnor |June 27, 2023 - 12:30PM
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Live
Nightmare in Park Slope: My ‘luxury’ basement apartment flooded three times in two months
By Anonymous |March 30, 2023 - 12:30PM
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Sales Market
How the 'real estate whisperer' won a 30-way bidding war and landed his dream house
By Jennifer White Karp |January 18, 2023 - 9:30AM
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Kids + Pets
I keep chickens in my Bed-Stuy backyard and it's not as much work as you might think
By Austin Havens-Bowen |October 18, 2022 - 9:30AM
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Neighborhood Intel
The vegetable garden on my Brooklyn roof deck is my pride and joy. Here's how I created it
By Emily Myers |September 29, 2022 - 1:30PM
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Affordable Housing
Squatters made our life hell so we're fixing our building and kicking our landlord out

… … Deteriorating conditions in the building … Michael Ive lived in the building for over 30 years and the current … Jillian Its a very scary feeling Im a young female who lives alone Our elevator is broken Im climbing six flights … Sam Himmelstein a New York City tenantsrights lawyer  and longtime  Brick Underground columnist  with decades of …

By Emily Myers |September 7, 2022 - 9:30AM
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Neighbors
My favorite neighbor moved to Florida—and I had no idea how much I would miss her
By Annabel Lee |September 1, 2022 - 3:45PM
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Improve
How I turned a storage shed behind my Brooklyn house into an art studio
By Willow Rabinovich |March 22, 2022 - 12:30PM
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The Search
Our crazy Brooklyn rental hunt: We kept losing places to others willing to pay more and sign longer leases
By Emily Myers |March 22, 2022 - 9:30AM