“Instead of turning a blind eye to the suffering of basement and cellar apartment dwellers, disproportionately low-income and from immigrant communities, we must find the political courage to face ...

The horrific deaths of New Yorkers whose basement apartments flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida has shocked and surprised the nation and may well lead to pressure on building officials to crack ...

In an office building in downtown Manhattan, an 8-foot-long banner stretched across the length of a fluorescent-lit hallway. Five-inch-tall red letters indicated the location of an entrance to a ...

Basement apartments provide affordable housing options in crowded urban hubs like New York City, where the average rent for a Manhattan apartment is $4,140, according to RENTCafé data. But far too ...

A pilot program to convert illegal basement apartments in parts of Brooklyn into legal and safe units has just five active participants out of roughly 8,000 homeowners initially contacted, city ...

Deborah Torres, right, talks to police officers in Queens, where three people died after their basement apartment flooded. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock Eight ...

A reader asks: I am living in a basement at [address withheld] and just wanted to know if it is legal. It is a walk-in basement and the situation I am facing living in the basement is unbearable. City ...

In Ontario, for example, landlords are generally responsible for removing snow and ice from common and shared areas, which, in most cases, includes driveways and walkways of basement apartments.

The owner of a Bethlehem basement apartment who erroneously had been given an occupancy permit several times over the last decade must tell his tenants to leave. The Bethlehem Zoning Hearing Board ...

In Queens, a home flooded again and a family wished they could find a way out: “People died in this house. We don’t want to live here.” By Mihir Zaveri and Christopher Maag At around 10:30 a.m. on ...