D.W. Gibson

After moving 10 times in 10 years, a woman found that a little luck was the best companion for a lot of hard work. She won a studio in a lottery on her fifth try.Tanzania Hughie had a vision. “I was going to come back to New York, get a job and live in a

Thirty years ago, a woman got a $250-a-month, rent-stabilized apartment in Inwood. She says the neighborhood has defined not only her life but her life’s work.The last time Arlene Schulman went looking for an apartment, the internet was only in its infancy. “I did what everyone did 30 years ago,” Ms. Schulman said, “I asked

During the quarantine, a couple worked hard on an application for the city’s housing lottery, and their efforts paid off: a two-bedroom for $1,241 a month in Long Island City.When the pandemic began, Susannah Dalton and José Ignacio Vivero were living in a basement apartment in Sunnyside, Queens. “It wasn’t bad during Covid,” Ms. Dalton

Once the war started, Alona Hamova worked as a guest artist at tattoo studios in Europe, and when she thought she was ready, accepted an offer to work in Williamsburg.It was war that drove Alona Hamova from her home, but, in a way, she always knew she was destined to leave. “I felt like I