A new plan calls for New York State to buy vacant city offices and hotels and convert them to affordable housing, which would be run by non-profit organizations (The Real Deal)
A renewable energy storage battery is the hottest new apartment building amenity (The New York Times)
A very NYC dream—or nightmare: This renter found several empty rooms behind her bathroom mirror (Queens Crap)
There are calls to increase penalties for spitting on transit workers, who are reporting an uptick in assaults (Gothamist)
The city's police commissioner announces a renewed crackdown on graffiti as well as community outreach to tackle it (amNewYork)
Emily Myers is a real estate writer and podcast host. As the former host of the Brick Underground podcast, she earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London, earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived for a decade in California.
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