Queens Chronicle Three men died of apparent drug overdoses Thursday morning in Ridgewood, police said. The victims were discovered uncon...

  NY Daily News   Thirteen doomed New Yorkers, all but two trapped inside flash-flooded basement apartments, were killed when the remnants ...

Illegal conversion of a basement garage + Charging an e-bike battery = death trap. And it was the family's first day living in the hous...

Hilarious illustration by the Real Deal  The Real Deal Across the city, tens of thousands of people live in illegal basement apartmen...

  THE CITY The de Blasio administration wants to make it easier for homeowners to legally add apartments in basements, atop garages —...

NY Daily News Marlene Hernandez moved from her two-bedroom apartment in Bushwick to an illegal basement apartment in East New York ...

From PIX11 : City Council Member Brad Lander says he wants to make sure long-time residents like Thorne can stay in the community, while ...

From CBS 2 : “We’ll use East New York as the guinea pig of how this program can work and whether or not it will work,” said Councilman Ra...

From the Daily News : The Queens building where a man was found dead in the attic — a day after the fire was put out — was illegally subdi...

From the Daily News : A roaring fire erupted in a Queens home early Friday injuring seven firefighters and five civilians, including on...

From Crains : Mayor Bill de Blasio managed to include one new proposal in the preliminary budget he released on Thursday—a pilot program t...

From PIX11 : Julita Gontarczyk is involved in a bitter dispute. She and her husband own a home in Maspeth, Queens. A developer, Orin Effi...

From Brooklyn Reporter : A number of people have been displaced after city officials issued an immediate vacate order on an illegally con...

From CBS : Homeowners in Whitestone, Queens are dealing with a stinking mess after sewage backed up into their basements. As CBS2’s Jes...

From PIX11 : A large number of Queens civic leaders gathered at State Sen. Tony Avella's office this afternoon to speak out passionate...

From Crains : There are up to 210,000 basements and cellars across the city that could potentially be converted into legal apartments—enou...

From the DNA Info : A housing inspector endangered the lives of his tenants by violating the same building codes the city employed him to ...

From WPIX : In front of her home on Poplar Street, the gutter had a deep and wide sheet of ice. It extends to the house next door, which ...

From the Queens Courier : Homeowners gathered around on Seneca Avenue near Norman Street in Ridgewood on Thursday afternoon to get answers...