A New York City Airbnb host was shut down under the short-term rental law. He's now renting his basement illegally on Facebook and making crucial income after he was laid off.

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Row houses in Queens, New York.
Row houses in Queens, New York.

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I moved from NYC to Italy without speaking Italian or having a job. Now, I'm married with 2 kids, and I love my life here.

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Young person wearing backpack, hat, and yellow jacket standing on street in Italy enjoying view of building.
Caroline Chirichella (not pictured) moved to Italy from New York City at the age of 24.

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Ryan Serhant wants to capture his bad days on camera and show how luxury real-estate is hard

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Ryan Serhant has starred on television for over a decade.

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Rupert Murdoch just slashed the price of his Manhattan penthouse by half. See inside the $28.5 million apartment he can't seem to sell.

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The living area in Rupert Murdoch's apartment in NYC.
Rupert Murdoch bought the penthouse in 2014 for $43 million.

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NYC shuttered 80% of its Airbnbs in an attempt to make housing more affordable. All that's done so far is make hotels more expensive.

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5 mind-bending buildings from Las Vegas to Dubai that never broke ground — and what stands in their place instead

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Side-by-side of a proposed NYC skyscraper and the present-day building in its place.
In the 1970s, a real-estate developer proposed a futuristic tower with a giant stock-trading floor.

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I rode the Jitney bus from NYC to the Hamptons for $41. The bathroom didn't have a sink, but I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of my trip.

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people getting their luggage from underneath the hamptons jitney bus
I took a coach bus from Midtown Manhattan to the Hamptons on Long Island.

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3 Supercommuters who travel across multiple states for work share how they manage it and why it's worth it

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Split screen image of Malick Mercier, Susan Miller, and Kyle Rice.

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New York City briefly opened its housing voucher waitlist. But getting that assistance is as unlikely as getting into Harvard.

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Looking east from the Hudson River in Riverside Park past the West Side Highway are high rises on the upper west side in Manhattan.

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I took a $195 luxury bus from the Hamptons to NYC, and the high-end freebies I got on board were worth more than my ticket

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exerior shot of the hamptons streamliner bus
Hamptons Streamliner is a new luxury bus offering.

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