Illegal NYC Homes Thrive as De Blasio Tackles Housing
This article is for subscribers only.
Around the side or back doors and down 10 steps of the single-family homes in Ozone Park, Queens, lies a netherworld of illegal basement dwellings -- a byproduct of New York’s chronic housing shortage.
“Some are even better than those that are above,” said Seema Agnani, an urban planner pushing for a law to add the units to New York’s legally protected housing stock.