When Crissy Spivey bought a large one-bedroom, one-bathroom co-op in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood in 2018, she had all the space she needed. Shortly before closing, she met John Richie, who had just moved to New York from New Orleans. It wasn’t long before he joined her in the apartment. The following year, the couple’s […]
Although a resident of Chicago, Faith Pennick regards himself as a New Yorker. She lived in the city for two decades and rented in different neighborhoods in Brooklyn. “I couldn’t buy an apartment in Brooklyn in the nineties,” said Mrs. Pennick, 56, who had student loan after obtaining diplomas from the University of Michigan and […]