Yearly Archives: 2013

New York, NY - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has announced that Brooklyn-based nonprofit CAMBA Housing Ventures, Inc. (CHV) has been selected as developer for the Van Dyke Supportive Housing Development Project. The plan calls for construction of a new mid-rise sustainable and contextual building with 100 units, landscaped areas, and on-site social services.

NEW YORK, NY - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has developed a checklist to help Hurricane Sandy survivors rebuild smarter, stronger and safer so their homes are protected in future storms

New York, NY - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New York City, January 9, 2013 – New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) today announced the next major step in transforming the largest parcel of under-developed City-owned land in Manhattan below 96th Street into vibrant, mixed-use space in one of New York’s most dynamic, diverse and historic neighborhoods. With the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) today, nine sites located near the intersection of Essex Street and Delancey Street are on their way to becoming

New York, NY - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New York City residential and commercial real estate brokers’ confidence levels hit their second highest ratings in December 2012 of the last seven months, according to the inaugural release of the Real Estate Board of New York’s (REBNY’s) Broker Confidence Index.

New Yorker, NY - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers, organized by the Museum of the City of New York in conjunction with Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC), offers insights into how New York City’s changing social, economic, and cultural lives, especially the rise of single adults, are re-shaping urban households, and how design can help re-shape the city’s housing stock for New Yorkers at all phases of their lives.

ALBANY, NY - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The President of 32BJ SEIU, the state’s largest private-sector union, said today that Governor Cuomo deserves credit for announcing his support for many important initiatives in his State-of-the-State speech, particularly the need for an increase in the minimum wage, and for campaign finance reform and greater regulation of public utilities. But 32BJ President Héctor Figueroa also urged the Governor to add the New York State DREAM Act to his list of priorities.

January 09, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- With the demolition of four vacant deteriorated houses completed and financing in place, construction is set to begin on the Village Lofts project - a rental housing project that will create 29 affordable and moderately priced units in the Town of Hempstead

Albany, NY - January 09, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a global leader in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, will build a new multi-billion dollar research and development facility at its Fab 8 Campus in Saratoga County. The Technology Development Center (TDC) is expected to result in at least 500 new, high-paying jobs at the TDC, as well as 500 additional jobs at the GF Fab and administration buildings.

NEW YORK, NY - January 04, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- When Thomas O’Grady decided to build a house on East Atlantic Beach, the neighborhood he grew up in, he wasn’t very happy learning that he couldn’t build his main floor because of new local building codes that would require him to elevate his home to the area base flood elevation (BFE).

New York, NY - January 03, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The failure of Congress to act on the federal assistance legislation to help the millions of people impacted by Hurricane Sandy is absolutely unconscionable.