New York City leases don’t come with a return policy. Once you sign, you’re locked into a legally binding, 12-month (or longer) commitment on what’s usually the biggest line item in your budget and most renters spend less than 30 minutes touring an apartment before making that call. Between broker fees, guarantor requirements, and rent […]
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Staten Island wears autumn well. As the ferry ride gets crisper and the borough’s tree-lined neighborhoods start turning gold, the fall calendar fills up fast, from a 17-year-old pork festival at a National Historic Landmark to a harvest market overlooking Raritan Bay. Whether you’re a longtime resident or new to the borough, September and October
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Mulberry Street is about to celebrate a century of sizzling sausage-and-pepper stands, saint’s-day processions, and the kind of street-fair chaos that only comes once a year, and 2026 marks the biggest one yet. The Feast of San Gennaro returns to Little Italy for its 100th anniversary, running Thursday, September 17 through Sunday, September 27, 2026.
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Staten Island property owners face the same alphabet soup of NYC compliance mandates as every other borough, Local Law 97 for emissions, Local Law 152 for gas piping, and FISP (Local Law 11) for facade safety, but with borough-specific timing quirks that catch owners off guard. Staten Island’s three community districts already completed their first
Every August, the loudest, latest, most electric two-plus weeks in New York sports descend on Queens, and this year is no exception. The 2026 US Open runs Sunday, August 23 through Sunday, September 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, with the main draw beginning August 30. For
Every Saturday morning, the parking lot at the Staten Island Mall fills with folding tables, striped awnings, and the smell of fresh bread. It’s not a flea market it’s a farmers market, and it’s become one of the borough’s quiet community anchors. Staten Island isn’t packed with as many markets as Brooklyn or Manhattan, but
For a handful of Saturdays every summer, something genuinely extraordinary happens on Park Avenue. The taxis disappear. The delivery trucks vanish. The traffic signals still cycle green and red, but nobody’s paying attention to them, because the street belongs to people. NYC Summer Streets turns more than 20 miles of roads across all five boroughs
New York City summers have always been unforgiving, humid, relentless, and capable of turning a poorly maintained apartment into a genuine health hazard. But 2026 raises the stakes in a way no previous summer has. A severe and prolonged heat wave in June 2025 resulted in 19 heat stress deaths, and most people who died
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Managing community living shouldn’t mean drowning in unread emails or hunting down paper notices. On August 17, 2026, DOME Property Management is officially launching the next-generation DOMEport mobile app and portal to transform how residents, board members, and property managers interact. With PropTech adoption accelerating, over 58% of property management teams now leverage integrated digital
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On Sunday, July 19, 2026, the entire world will be watching MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The FIFA World Cup Final the culmination of a month-long tournament that has already produced historic moments will kick off at 3 PM ET with an estimated 82,500 people in the stadium and over a billion watching
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