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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]