Emily Myers

A guarantor comes into play when you are renting in New York City if your finances fail to meet the requirements set by landlords. Typically, tenants need to have good U.S credit and earn 40 times the monthly rent. If you don't meet these standards, Sam Himmelstein, a partner at Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph (and a Brick sponsor, FYI), says landlords can require "any tenant, rent-stabilized or not, to have a guarantor on their initial lease."

A broken boiler left more than 2,000 tenants in a Bronx public housing complex without heat as temperatures plummet.

An estate condition sale usually means the property is in pretty bad shape and might be on the market because a resident has died and the family wants the proceeds of the sale. The apartment will likely come at a deep discount but what you save on the asking price, you will probably pay for in the time and effort.

Four workers have been injured after scaffolding collapsed at a building site in Hudson Yards.

Offered at $1,395,000, the seller cut the asking price by $69,000 about six months ago so it is well below the current median sales price of $1,795,000 for similar-sized units in the neighborhood, according to StreetEasy.

A steel wall is going up along the eastern edge of the Gowanus Canal as part of the federal Superfund site’s environmental cleanup.