Joyce Cohen

Over the years, we’ve introduced readers to hundreds of home buyers in The Hunt.Many were first-time buyers trying to navigate the New York City housing market.This year, we caught up with a few of our New York hunters to find out how their stories unfolded.From fighting the elements, to loving the laundry room, to dealing

For 10 years, Olivia Page-Pollard was a serial New York renter, hopping from neighborhood to neighborhood, almost always in Brooklyn, never staying in one place for more than three years.In 2021, she moved to Chinatown for a pandemic deal, “because I felt I would never have the opportunity to live in Manhattan due to rents

When Kelly O’Connell arrived in New York after college in 2007, she landed in Astoria, Queens, and quickly found everything she needed — friends, food and shopping. “You don’t need to go into Manhattan on your day off to do anything,” she said. “Astoria is like its own little city insulated from the city.”Shortly before