Habitat is an American

United States

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 real estate

Real estate

In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

 magazine

Magazine

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 founded in 1982 and aimed at co-op boards, condominium

Condominium

A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...

 associations, and related professionals such as attorneys

Lawyer

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 and managing agents. The print magazine concentrates on the greater New York City metropolitan area while its Web site contains features for general-interest co-op/condo directors, residents, and buyers/sellers.

Publication history

Journalist

Journalist

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 Carol J. Ott founded what was then titled N.Y. Habitat in New York City in 1982, for a primary audience of co-op and loft owners/renters. The magazine had evolved from Ott's 1980-82 newspaper, The Loft Letter. Originally bimonthly, in 1997 the publication schedule increased to 11 times yearly, with one double-issue. As of 2011, Ott remains publisher and editor-in-chief. The operations manager is Jennifer Wu.

Editorial and art

Habitat publishes both human-interest

Human interest story

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 feature stories, such as how a co-op board avoided a financial collapse, and how a motivated board put through an environmentally

Natural environment

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 friendly initiative; service articles, such as those detailing guidelines for hiring a property management

Property management

Property management is the operation, control of ususally on behalf of an owner, and oversight of commercial, industrial or residential real estate as used in its most broad terms. Management indicates a need to be cared for, monitored and accountability given for its usable life and condition...

 firm, illuminating group decision-making dynamics, studying implementation of solar

Solar power

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 or geothermal power

Geothermal power

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, and reviewing methods of increasing building revenue; and advocacy journalism

Advocacy journalism

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, such as stories about shoddy new construction and poor enforcement of building code

Building code

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s. Shorter pieces provide updates on co-op/condo legislation, judicial decisions, and policy trends.

Art contributors include illustrators Danny Hellman

Danny Hellman

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, Jane Sanders, Liza Donnelly

Liza Donnelly

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, and Marcellus Hall

Marcellus Hall

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. Writers include Bill Morris, Alan Saly, Jennifer V. Hughes, Renee Serlin, and Frank Lovece

Frank Lovece

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. As of 2011, the longtime editorial director is Tom Soter, who joined the magazine with its second issue in 1982, and the art director

Art director

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 is Michael Gentile, the founding art director of New York Press

New York Press

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External links

• Brooks, Andee Archive of "Managing a Building In-House", The New York Times (January 8, 1984). Original page.
• Romano, Jay. Archive of "Your Home: A Troubling Legacy of Conversions", The New York Times (March 22, 1998). Original page.
• Armstrong, Joy. Archive of "Boards Get Stiff", New York (April 22, 2002). Original page