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The 1890s dwelling was a House of the Day in 2021 and the listing photos at the time showed the street level dining room with wainscoting, built-ins, a ceiling medallion, wood floors, and a mantel. Those details are still intact, with the room now serving as the bedroom for the petite unit, according to the floor plan. 

At the rear of the unit, facing the garden, is a large room with decorative fireplace, wood floors, closet and, along one wall, a strip kitchen. Overhead is a tin ceiling with an interesting distressed finish in stripes of cream, brown, and blue. 

The room is identified as the living room in the floor plan and shown furnished with a sofa, rug, and coffee table. The kitchen area has a slate tile floor and is outfitted with white lower cabinets, a dishwasher, white zellige-style tile backsplash, and just a bit of counter space. Laundry is tucked into an adjoining closet. 

The occupant will have the use of the rear yard, which has a patio with room for dining and planting beds that someone with a green thumb could bring to life. 

Listed by Tali Berzak and Kyle Meagher of Compass, the unit is priced at $2,700 a month.

[Listing: 598 MacDonough Street, Garden | Broker: Compass] GMAP

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    string(6934) "By Ethan Stark-Miller, amNY

New York City’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized tenants could see their rents hiked by as much as 6.5 percent, according to preliminary ranges approved by the city’s Rent Guidelines Board Tuesday night.

The nine-member panel, made up entirely of Mayor Eric Adams’ appointees, advanced in a 5-2 vote (with two abstentions) on April 30 the preliminary proposal to hike rents 2 percent to 4.5 percent for one-year leases, and 4 percent to 6.5 percent for two-year leases. The proposed increases were similar to ranges that the board's staff presented in a report last month for how much more rental income landlords would need to maintain their rent-stabilized housing stock.

The board will settle on final rent increase amounts during a scheduled June 17 vote — and if Tuesday’s preliminary vote was any indication, the decisive vote could prove quite divisive.

Throughout the April 30 meeting, hosted at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City in Queens, tenant advocates opposed to any rent increases booed, jeered, and chanted “rent roll back.”

The board’s two tenant representatives gave lengthy remarks, slamming the process as “a sham” and speaking about the potentially devastating impact of further raising rents on low-income tenants before ultimately walking out of the meeting, and abstaining from the vote.

“I’ve decided that the only vote we’ll be making tonight is a vote of no confidence in this mayor and in this board,” said Adán Soltren, one of the tenant advocates, before heading for the door.

‘Far beyond what is reasonable’
Mayor Adams has always insisted that he does not tell board members which way to vote, nor does he claim to try to influence their decisions. But while the board is supposed to operate as an independent body, its members generally reflect the priorities of the mayor who appointed them. 

In a Tuesday night statement, Mayor Adams said the upper end of the proposed two-year lease hikes would be untenable for tenants. At the same time, he emphasized the board must also look out for landlords — making sure they have enough income in rent to maintain their properties.

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“Our team is taking a close look at the preliminary ranges voted on by the Rent Guidelines Board this evening and while the Board has the challenging task of striking a balance between protecting tenants from infeasible rent increases and ensuring property owners can maintain their buildings as costs continue to rise, I must be clear that a 6.5 percent increase goes far beyond what is reasonable to ask tenants to take on at this time,” Adams said. “I know well that small property owners also face growing challenges, and I encourage them to work with the city to utilize our many preservation tools so that, together, we can work to stabilize buildings and neighborhoods, all while keeping tenants in their homes.”

Either way, rents are likely to rise this coming year — and historically, the increases fall somewhere within the preliminary ranges that the board approved.

Fear of ‘devastating consequences’
The panel’s vote sets the stage for the third round of rent increases stabilized tenants will see since Adams took office in 2022. Last year, the board greenlit increases of 3 percent for one-year leases, and divided two-year lease increases into two rounds: 2.75 percent in the first year and 3.2 percent of the increased amount in the second.

Under Adams’ predecessor, Bill de Blasio, the board voted to keep rents frozen for several years.

The Legal Aid Society, in a Tuesday night statement, said the ranges approved in the board’s vote will have “devastating consequences” for low-income tenants. But the legal defense group said the board can still “reconsider” its vote and implement a rent freeze during the upcoming June meeting.

“Before then, we urge the board to listen to the cries of tenants and take into account how any rent increase will inevitably lead to higher rates of eviction, displacement, and homelessness for the more than two million New Yorkers who reside in a rent-stabilized dwelling,” the group said. “In order to remain in accordance with its own stated mandate of preserving affordability, fighting against unconscionable rent hikes, and preventing the uprooting of long-standing communities, the board must vote for an outright freeze on rents for stabilized units at the final vote in June.”



Editor’s note: A version of this story originally ran in amNY. Click here to see the original story.


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    string(11219) "Generously sized, this Park Slope townhouse isn't short on period details, like wainscoting and mantels, or room to spread out, with five floors of living space. Located less than a block from Prospect Park at 819 Carroll Street, the 1890s brick and brownstone house sits in the Park Slope Historic District. 

Plans were filed for the house and its seven neighbors in the row in 1896 by owner George B. Dearing. The architect behind the design of the four-story plus basement Romanesque Revival-style houses was architect Thomas McMahon, according to the designation report. A 1900 rental ad described No. 819 as having "a fancy front," and there are ornamental details on the brownstone lower levels. The upper levels are of red Roman brick; paired arched windows stretch across the top story. The details can be seen a bit more clearly in the circa 1940 tax photo.

The 18.58-foot-wide house is a legal two-family with a garden unit. It has been in the same hands since at least the 1970s. Presumably a new owner would want to update the wet rooms; neither the two kitchens nor the 4.5 bathrooms are shown in the listing photos. 

What is on display are wood floors, columned mantels with original tile surrounds, wainscoting, stained glass, and moldings. Other than the entry and the stair, much of the woodwork on the parlor floor is painted white. Pocket doors separate the front parlor, the stair hall, and the dining room at the rear. All three rooms have impressive columned mantels. A small kitchen is in an extension off the dining room (formerly a butler's pantry with a second stair to the kitchen). 

On the second floor, front and rear bedrooms are joined with a passthrough that still has sinks and built-in storage, according to the floor plan. A full bath is accessible via the rear bedroom. Two more bedrooms, each with a corner sink, share another bath on the third floor. All the bedrooms shown have wood floors and wall moldings.

On the top floor are two small bedrooms, one with unpainted moldings, and the final full bath. Also on this level is a storage room and four closets. 

Access to the rear yard is via a sliding door in the garden unit. There is a paved patio, planting beds, and a large tree. 

Elaine Gay of Townsley & Gay has the listing and the house is priced at $5.75 million.  What do you think?


[Listing: 819 Carroll Street | Broker: Townsley & Gay ] GMAP


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A tractor-trailer crashed into multiple telephone poles and ripped down power lines in Manhattan Beach on Monday morning, leaving hundreds of people without electricity. 

The details of the crash were not immediately clear, but Con Edison representative Alan Drury said the crash occurred at 1315 Oriental Boulevard around 10:30 a.m. on April 29. The truck — which appeared to have fled the scene — tore down eight telephone poles and at least two transformers, leaving the street littered with wires and debris. 

One downed transformer caught fire, according to the FDNY, and leaked hazardous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, into the roadway, drawing a response from 60 firefighters and paramedics. The fire was brought under control by 12:35 p.m. and one person was treated for minor injuries on the scene. 

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“This is insane and crazy, the truck was backing up, I heard a loud crash and suddenly saw wires everywhere,” said local resident Olga Ivanovich.

The crash left 382 households across four blocks without electricity. Con Edison crews were on the scene and hoped to restore power overnight. 

“This is wild, it is a perception matter,” a Con Ed rep told Brooklyn Paper by phone. “There are so many wires down, we’ll have to keep crews here overnight.”

Power was restored as of Tuesday morning, Con Edison representative Alan Drury later confirmed to Brooklyn Paper.

The investigation remains ongoing, police said Tuesday. The identity of the driver is still unknown.

Last spring, a tractor-trailer snagged a utility wire and pulled down a telephone pole in nearly the same location, at the corner of Oriental Boulevard and Langham Street, according to CBS News.

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-- Additional reporting by Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil

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