Soho basement for $250,000, 'Godfather' mansion on Airbnb, & more

By Emily Myers | July 19, 2022 - 10:30AM

With numbers of homeless New Yorkers rising, a pair of notorious landlords lease hotel rooms as shelters to the city (City Limits)

Soho’s cheapest apartment, a basement unit at 195 Prince St., lists for $250,000 but the condition is stark (New York Post)

A deaf man living in a Lower Manhattan building for hearing-impaired tenants plans to sue the owners for only installing alarms with sound (Patch)

Mayor Eric Adams sets out a housing plan emphasizing Black and Latino homeownership to address inequality (The City)

A 61-year-old man falls to his death washing the windows of his Upper East Side apartment (New York Post)

The Staten Island mansion that served as Don Corleone's house in "The Godfather" is available to rent on Airbnb (House Beautiful)

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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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