Joyce Cohen

Claire Breedlove was happy in her Harlem neighborhood, though not in her rental, which was in a poorly maintained building. Last winter, she decided to buy a place of her own, but was immediately disappointed when she was outbid on a nearby one-bedroom condominium with a terrace.Her parents, who live downtown, suggested she contact Bridget

A longtime tenant is locked in a standoff with the owner of his Upper West Side building.Eric Abrams struggles up the stairs with his cane, one step at a time.When he reaches the fifth floor, he ducks through a plastic zipper door and hobbles down the hall to his tiny, cluttered room. There is no

After immigrating from their native India in 1998, Vidya Jayaraman and Jay Krishnamoorthy settled in Connecticut and then New Jersey, visiting New York City as much as possible. Work led them to St. Louis and then to Atlanta, where they lived a suburban life, raising their daughter.“We are empty nesters — bird launchers, is what

A job transfer of sorts brought Katie Muela and Arsy Khodabandelou to New York from Maryland a few years ago.Ms. Muela was working as a nanny for a family that was relocating to the city from the Washington, D.C., area, so she and Mr. Khodabandelou took it “as an opportunity to move to New York