Loft Law

Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. In May, residents of Williamsburg’s 240 Broadway thought they’d won a fighting chance to stay in their homes, with the launch of an audit into their landlord’s long-ago transformation of their once-industrial building into […]

Additional reporting by Josefa Velasquez For months, residents of a Williamsburg artists’ loft have been pleading with city agencies to help them gain protection under the state’s Loft Law. Now the Department of Buildings is finally paying heed — just as the building’s management has begun asking tenants to leave 240 Broadway. The residents called […]