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Good-Cause Eviction Keeps Dying in Court

 Cities across New York tried to put a bandage on their housing crises. Then came the lawsuits. By Clio Chang
  1. Libbie Mugrabi Has Mansion Problems The socialite is facing eviction on the Upper East Side. Her Water Mill compound is an even bigger mess.
    By Clio Chang
  2. What Is Going on With Twitter’s Horrible Headquarters? The company’s San Francisco landlord is struggling to refinance. And workers are being invited to sleep in conference rooms.
    By Clio Chang
  3. Now You Can Live in a Crypto Office A crypto-mining firm’s former Hudson Yards space is marketed as the $19.5 million home of your dreams.
    By Clio Chang
  4. From the Archives: When Soho Was Imperiled “Artists came to Soho because it was ignored and cheap. Now it is no longer ignored, and soon it will not be cheap.”
    By Peter Hellman
  5. The Messy Real-Estate Fallout From FTX’s Implosion A running list.
    By Curbed Staff
  6. ‘We Were Called Gentrifiers, and We Were Called NIMBYs’ Councilmember Julie Won on how the largest private affordable-housing development in Queens history was won.
    By Bridget Read
  7. Margaritaville Was Supposed to Have a Synagogue And now the developer of the Times Square resort is being sued by the 91-year-old congregation.
    By Clio Chang
  8. You Can Finally Buy Derek Jeter’s Castle An $8 million price cut means your time has come.
    By Clio Chang
  9. The Office Is Half-Dead Or half-alive, depending on how you want to interpret the latest data.
    By Clio Chang
  10. ‘If You Can’t Exclude Someone, Do You Even Own It?’ New York City’s landlords say they’re fighting for life, liberty, and the pursuit of eviction.
    By Molly Osberg
  11. Ivana Trump’s Townhouse Is Officially for Sale And it’s overpriced.
    By Kim Velsey
  12. An Upper East Side Penthouse That Feels Like a Baroque French Manor Almost every inch of this three-bedroom apartment, with its hand-painted murals, painted columns, and coffered ceilings, has been embellished.
    By Ariel Norling
  13. Tenants in Kingston Just Gave Themselves a Rent Reduction And landlords are suing.
    By Clio Chang
  14. From the Archives: We Renovated Our Own Brownstone — It Was a Million Laughs “When someone asks was it worth it, I say yes, because while my arm didn’t heal properly, the ceiling job is beautiful.”
    By Fred Powledge
  15. Why These $20 Million Uptown Co-ops Aren’t Selling “In the past, big money needed co-ops to be accepted and established, But no one needs 740 Park anymore.”
    By Kim Velsey
  16. The Mennonite Airbnb Hustler of Upper Manhattan Konrad Bicher, calling himself “the Wolf of Airbnb,” ran a sublet scheme that made him rich — for a while.
    By James D. Walsh
  17. We’re Getting Closer to a Martian Housing Market Nine subterranean caves have been identified as potentially suitable habitats, if you’re into that kind of thing.
    By Clio Chang
  18. What Could Go Wrong With Crypto Island Just three NFTs can buy you a villa and great offshore-banking access on the site of the Fyre Festival.
    By Bridget Read
  19. From the Archives: When Williamsburg Became the New Bohemia A portrait of an artists’ colony in Brooklyn, circa 1992.
    By Brad Gooch
  20. 1 Oak Was Evicted And it apparently came as a surprise.
    By Clio Chang
  21. Sag Harbor Worried About Becoming Port Jefferson And a group of residents is suing over an affordable-housing development.
    By Clio Chang
  22. ‘The Only Reason We Got It Was That I Lied’ In a brutal market, renters are fabricating everything from credit scores to income to employers.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. The Glamping Wars of Woodstock Local officials are trying to keep the peace as residents go all out against a proposed 77-acre “outdoor resort.”
    By Clio Chang
  24. From the Archives: When Gentrification Hit the Lower East Side There goes the neighborhood.
    By Craig Unger
  25. 13 Years, 3 Mayors, Countless Community Board Meetings, and Just One Building The tortured saga of turning a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot into 112 affordable apartment units.
    By Bridget Read
  26. The Helicopter Landlord Lives Downstairs And wonders if the guy who was over last night is your new boyfriend or just a friend.
    By Clio Chang
  27. The Billionaire Behind New York’s Most Luxe Hotel Vladislav Doronin’s ambitious, contentious journey from Leningrad to Aman New York.
    By Chris Pomorski
  28. ‘I Don’t Think Anyone Should Buy Land in Any Metaverse Right Now’ Chatting with Jessica Stocker, Winter House’s skeptical virtual real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  29. Audrey Gelman and the Wing Are Being Sued for $1.7 Million in Back Rent That’s a lot of woven apple baskets.
    By Clio Chang
  30. 12 Gay Street Has a Lot Going On The quaint brick facade conceals: a Russian oligarch, his just-arrested estate manager who is Helena Bonham-Carter’s cousin, Howdy Doody, and a ghost.
    By Clio Chang
  31. The Kauai Realtor Who’s Hearing a Lot of Rumors About Mark Zuckerberg “Someone told me she heard he was almost eaten by a shark.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  32. New York City’s Rent and Wage-Growth Gap Hits Record High We’ve hit another miserable milestone.
    By Clio Chang
  33. What Happened to the Gramercy Park Hotel? Everyone’s got a theory.
    By Bridget Read
  34. The Most Hamptons House in the Hamptons Is for Sale The $150 million estate features a vaguely menacing number of white sofas.
    By Clio Chang
  35. Is Rupert Murdoch Done With New York? Or is the 91-year-old just downsizing?
    By Kim Velsey
  36. What Real Estate Does Trump Own in NYC Anyway? Letitia James wants to freeze the family’s business in the state. They sort of beat her to it.
    By Wilfred Chan
  37. The Tacky Weed Bodega Is Everywhere (for Now) What has the city’s Kush Rush wrought?
    By Bridget Read
  38. High Profile Compass Brokers Are Leaving for Elliman In search of greener pastures, where teams can grow and DocuSign is paid for.
    By Kim Velsey
  39. The Trump Organization Says Kris Jenner–Fronted ‘Business School’ Is Squatting An elite scammer-versus-scammer situation.
    By Clio Chang
  40. The Central Park Supertall with a $250 Million Penthouse Extell CEO Gary Barnett is done settling for less!
    By Kim Velsey
  41. Kim Kardashian Is Selling Two of Her Houses She will keep the other two.
    By Zach Schiffman
  42. Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Offices Win the Amenity Wars Two Trees is betting that you won’t hate the neighborhood, the commute, or the work space itself.
    By Kim Velsey
  43. Unsellable Soho Loft Now Comes With an NFT Fine, we’ll take it.
    By Zach Schiffman
  44. The House That Yankee Candle Built Featuring two “car barns,” four tennis courts, and an indoor water park.
    By Zach Schiffman
  45. Landlords Are Trying to Make ‘Tenantsplaining’ a Thing Our housing providers are having a little fun.
    By Clio Chang
  46. ‘Emotionally Paralyzed’ New York Home Buyers Are Backing Out of Contracts Worried about rising interest rates, buyers are making offers but not closing sales.
    By Kim Velsey
  47. The Outer-Borough Bidding Wars Are Here Brokers on receiving 100 emails a day and getting messages while in labor.
    By Wilfred Chan
  48. The West Village ‘Nightmare Share’ Is Over The “grifter” accused of squatting in an Airbnb rental for three years has been evicted.
    By Bridget Read
  49. A Woman in the Bronx Fell Through Her Bathroom Floor A new addition to your list of tenant nightmares.
    By Clio Chang
  50. ‘He’s Kicking Me Out Because My Daughter Wouldn’t Sleep With Him.’ A housing lawyer on how often landlords insert “sexual clauses” in leases.
    By Bridget Read
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