A five-minute walk to work and around $600 a month in rent was hard to pass up in 1990. Rodolfo Calica worked as a parking attendant at Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, Brooklyn. His wife, Queenie Calica, also began working there in the 2000s as a housekeeper. It made sense to them to move […]
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Will New York Reach a Housing Deal to Confront an Affordability Crisis?
Everyone — landlords, tenants, builders and their various allies — seems to agree that a deal is desperately needed to address the worsening housing crisis in New York State. What is holding it up? There are three main factions fighting over a few key priorities, including tough new restrictions on evictions and significant tax breaks […]
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