{"id":177304,"date":"2026-03-27T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177304\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:21:08","slug":"budget-breakdown-they-turned-their-sad-garage-in-queens-into-an-airy-living-annex-for-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177304\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Breakdown: They Turned Their Sad Garage in Queens Into an Airy \u201cLiving Annex\u201d for $100K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to John Patrick Cunningham, building in New York is a lot like filing your taxes. &#8220;It&#8217;s like, \u2018What can you write off as an expense?\u2019&#8221; says the Brooklyn architect. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of gray area about what you can do and if people will give you a fuss about it.&#8221; Combing through complicated codes, sleuthing for loopholes, and maximizing your returns are par for the course. &#8220;It\u2019s always a negotiation,&#8221; he adds. This approach was particularly relevant for a recent project of his, the conversion of a dilapidated backyard shed in Queens into a serene indoor\/outdoor &#8220;living annex.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to John Patrick Cunningham, building in New York is a lot like filing your taxes. &#8220;It&#8217;s like,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-177304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}