Apartment Look

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — This week’s featured real estate listing is a one-bedroom condo at 228 Bushwick Ave. with an asking price of $600,000. The 583- square foot apartment features a balcony, stainless-steel kitchen with marble counters, and an in-unit washer/dryer. Check out more photos of the home here and be sure to sign up for the Williamsburg Patch daily newsletter to get updates on local news and real estate. From Realtor.com: No L train, no problem! The J & M trains are just a 10-minute walk away! Come home to this nicely layed out condo with open southern exposure ! Located in the trendy part of East Williamsburg , this property is in a prime location adjacent to the L subway station. This spacious one bedroom features a balcony, stainless steel kitchen with marble counters, and washer dryer. There is through the wall air conditioning , cherry doors, and white oak hardwood flooring . This building, which is only a few years old, has a video intercom entrance syste...

This loft-like Williamsburg condo offers 12 -foot ceilings and a corner berth that makes for striking views of the East River and the Manhattan skyline. It’s at 60 Broadway on the eighth floor of the Gretsch Building, a former musical instrument factory that was converted in 2005. The place is pretty fab on its own, but there’s also an intriguing opportunity here for the buyer who’s deep-pocketed enough to pull it off (and that’s extremely deep-pocketed). An adjoining corner unit is also for sale, allowing for the option of buying both and combining them, making for over 4,000 square feet of space and a panoramic view that’d be pretty exceptional. As it stands, this one’s got three bedrooms and 2.5 baths, with a master bedroom that offers a walk-in closet, an en suite white marble bath and the same west-facing vista as the living room. The kitchen is open plan, as one would expect, with powder blue cabinetry , granite countertops, a spacious island, a Wolf range and a SubZero fridg...

East Seventh Street ."> East Seventh Street ." /> A row of buildings on East Seventh Street . View Full Caption Landmarks Preservation Commission MANHATTAN —  Millennials, be forewarned before moving to the Big Apple: You'll need a roommate, you'll likely pay at least $1,000 a month, and don't bet on settling in Manhattan. Nearly 72 percent of Millennials shared their home with someone other than their partner in 2016, according to a report from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer . And now is the time of year that many of these young New Yorkers are searching for new digs. The third week of August tends to the busiest single week for renters because of the flood of college students coming to New York and recent grads starting new jobs in September, according to the roommate- search app SpareRoom . The city’s streets around universities such as NYU, Columbia and Barnard will soon be cordoned off on Aug. 27 for the annual rite of “move-in day,” wh...

A group of tenants in a building owned by Kushner Companies is suing the company over what they say is a failure by their landlord to register their apartments as rent-stabilized or offer them rent-stabilized leases. The lawsuit by the residents of 89 Hicks Street alleges that after the Kushner Companies bought the 48-unit building in 2014, it didn't follow rules regarding the building's rent-stabilization status. According to an investigation by Housing Rights Initiative , the building was temporarily exempt from rent stabilization while it was first owned by the Watchtower Society and then used as student housing by Brooklyn Law School . However, according to state law, all units should have been put back into the rent stabilization program when the building was sold, and their rents returned to where they were when the buildings were taken out of the program. Instead, the suit says, Kushner Companies only registered five of the units with the Division of Housing And Co...

Kushner Companies hit with rent-stabilization lawsuit in Brooklyn Heights "Ignorance, indifference or utter disregard of the law." From left: Jared Kushner, Laurent Morali and 89 Hicks Street (Credit: Getty Images, CUNY TV and Google Maps) Kushner Companies violated rent -stabilization laws at a building the company owns in Brooklyn Heights , a new lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status , comes at a time when the company is already facing scrutiny over its ownership and management of a massive multifamily portfolio with hundreds of rent-stabilized units across the city, and puts a further spotlight on Jared Kushner, the former CEO of the firm and top White House adviser who continues to hold a stake in the Brooklyn Heights property . For years, the 48- unit apartment building at 89 Hicks Street was a servant to institutions. It was first converted to religious housing for the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1989, and later became a dorm for Brooklyn Law Schoo...