Building Stories: Full Court Press

Sixteen Court Street, that soaring wedding cake of a building that pierces the sky above downtown Brooklyn, was built in 1928—the cusp of an economic catastrophe against which all future recessions would be measured. Like those who made that ambitious investment in the borough of Kings, SL Green could not have known what lay Read More

Parents, Put Away Your W-2s! Manhattan Insurer Will Be Your Kid's Co-Signer

Finally, no more embarrassing calls from fairly well-employed thirty-somethings to their baffled parents in the sticks. "Dad, can you co-sign?"

Manhattan-based Insurent Agency Corporation announced Tuesday a new program to insure renters whose income levels do not meet the ridiculous 40- to 50-times-the-monthly-rent formula required by greedy landlords citywide.

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