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The Big Apple recently approved new regulations on short-term rentals. Meant to curtail abuse and rising prices, it also spells trouble for legitimate users

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New York City is back, baby! Bustling restaurants, crowded subways, sold-out shows and exhibits: here is everything you need to know about a 2022 visit.

New York City is open for business, which also means the low rent prices during the pandemic are now going up, forcing some tenants out.

The city is thriving, but many who scored a deal now face rent-renewal sticker shock. Rents rose 33 percent between January of 2021 and January this year, according to an online listing site.

The platform has changed the way city residents search for housing – often to the chagrin of brokers

Amanda Paulsen and Peter Zusman found a 1,000-square-foot space on Avenue C for $3,200 a month — with a basement and a backyard.

For those in other boroughs who dreamed of Manhattan, there was a silver lining to the pandemic: lower rents.

M.K. Hhana The pandemic was the impetus for many renters leaving NYC, opening units and dropping rents.  These nine renters took advantage of the favored market and upgraded their living spaces for less. With free-month deals and negotiations, some are saving hundreds on bigger or newer apartments. New York is a notoriously unaffordable city — but over the past year, the sky-high rents that once characterized life in the five boroughs have crept back down to ear...