Soaring charges hit condo, co-op owners

Crain’s New York
Soaring charges hit condo, co-op owners
Worse lies ahead as income from flip taxes and retail units ebbs just as defaults rise
By Amanda Fung
Published: February 22, 2009 – 5:59 am
Residents of a 54-unit Upper East Side co-op got the bad news last month—despite the board’s intense efforts to trim expenses, maintenance fees are rising [...]

You need more green to live in Queens

From Your Nabe.com
You need more green to live in Queens
Report by Center for an Urban Future cites boro as fifth-most expensive locale in the United States
By Philip Newman
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:59 PM EST
New York City’s notorious cost of living is driving out thousands of the middle class in an exodus fueled not only by [...]

Queens: A blue-collar boro shifts gears

Daily News
By Lisa L. Colangelo, Friday, February 6th 2009, 10:16 AM
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Queens, long known as a haven for middle-class New Yorkers, may be outgrowing its blue-collar roots, a new report says.
In fact, it’s more expensive to live in Queens than in Orange County, Calif.; Stamford, Conn., and even Nassau County, according to “Reviving [...]

Fire Damages Baybridge Condos

Update From NY1
The Blaze occurred in the Baybridge Condos.
Several Queens residents were left out in the cold after a fire in Clearview Friday evening.
Witnesses say the fire started at Jordan Road.
As firefighters battled flames on the second and third floors of a condo, the flames it spread to a neighboring building.
“They crashed our [...]

North Flushing Says “NO” To McMansions

FROM THE DAILY NEWS
Homeowners group head Sandi Viviani and civic group head Tyler Cassell have been working on new Flushing zoning.
In an effort to ward off oversized McMansions, city planners have proposed new zoning for 257 blocks in northern Flushing.
The plan is designed to help the area keep its look and feel of mostly single-family [...]

Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly.

January 27, 2009
Belmont Journal
Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly.
By JESSE McKINLEY
BELMONT, Calif. — During her 50 years of smoking, Edith Frederickson says, she has lit up in restaurants and bars, airplanes and trains, and indoors and out, all as part of a two-pack-a-day habit that she regrets not a bit. But as of two weeks ago, [...]