Friday Links
Interlopers on the Skyline [NY Times] Stately Grounds and Atari-Hued Lanes [NY Times] Greenspan Concedes That Fed Failed to Gauge Bubble [NY TImes] Have You Seen this Sexual Assaulter? [NY Times] Brooklyn Bridge Park to open Monday [NY Post] Computer Glitch Blamed for Marine Park Raids [NY Post] Brooklyn Rabbi on List of Worst Landlords…
Interlopers on the Skyline [NY Times]
Stately Grounds and Atari-Hued Lanes [NY Times]
Greenspan Concedes That Fed Failed to Gauge Bubble [NY TImes]
Have You Seen this Sexual Assaulter? [NY Times]
Brooklyn Bridge Park to open Monday [NY Post]
Computer Glitch Blamed for Marine Park Raids [NY Post]
Brooklyn Rabbi on List of Worst Landlords [Village Voice]
Bicycle Ticket Blitz in Downtown Brooklyn [Brooklyn Paper]
Police: Bed Stuy Man Killed Wife, Self [NY1]
Greenpoint House Doubles as Live-In Fridge [Curbed]
Brooklyn IKEA Running Out of Furniture [Racked]
Peaches Hothouse Opened This Week [Ultraclay]
Photo by ROBatGraveShift
Hyperbole aside, the fact of the matter is that there are some horrible landlords out there, and people in their buildings are living in conditions you wouldn’t subject a back alley dog to. That is the point of the article, not whether or not the reporter exaggerates her hours, or even if the Voice advertises escort services. Talk about not seeing the trees for the forest.
it is terrible that people who stuck in these awful slumlord housing situations. i think part of the reason that they don’t move is that some of these people are older folks or sometimes have a disability which makes the whole process of looking for an apartment difficult enough, let alone moving themself and their belongings. They probably don’t have home computers with internet to hop on craigslist. My mom wouldn’t know craigslist if it bit her on the head. They may be scared, frustrated and overwhelmed. It’s easy to say oh, me and my friends could get my apartment moved in a day. That’s great. These people obviously aren’t able to do that though, otherwise they would.
benson, I no longer read the Voice for various reasons, but have to say, the ‘Ten Worst Landlords’ has been an annual feature for decades. It’s the Voice’ answer to the SI Swimming Suit issue.
“Greenspan Concedes That Fed Failed to Gauge Bubble [NY TImes]”
Ha! They created it!
***Bid half off peak comps***
ha! benson i read that article too.. it was pretty bad. that whole paper is pretty bad. the only part i like is the weekly horoscope for the most part.
*rob*
The Village Voice is such a joke. If anyone has any doubt about the “objectivity” of the reporter, she makes it clear in her opening remark:
“How many bad landlords are there in New York City? Who can count that high?”
Any doubt about the accuracy of the article is also clarified in the next few sentences, when she states:
“We spent thousands of hours in deeply depressing apartments and interviewed wave after wave of equally gloomy tenants.”
THOUSANDS OF HOURS?!?!?!!??!?!? Does anyone seriously believe that?!?!?!!?! Since she used the plural (“thousands”) let’s give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she meant just 2000 hours.
So, Ms. Dwoskin, would you be so kind as to tell us which scenario it was:
a) you literally lived in these apartments for 24 hours, never leaving them. In such a case, 2000 hours would mean you spent 80 days in these apartments.
b) probably the more likely scenario is that you spent your working hours investigating these apartments, right? I’ll assume you are a hard-working reporter, and that you put in 12 hour days. So, that means you spent 167 days, almost half a year, doing the leg work for this article. Is that what you want us to believe?
What a joke. No wonder they have to give this paper away for free these days, and fill up 10 of its back pages with “high-end” ads advertising whores (er, excuse me, “escort services”).
Isn’t it great to live in a city where folks just eat these myths up without any critical analysis? Why, we’re sophisticated New Yorkers, aren’t we?
Denton, you’re right. Then go the moving within walking distance and using shopping cart to move furniture (assuming it’s not a single woman with no help to carry furniture). We moved that way when we were here for a short period and no one in my family drove.
Also, in terms of paying first, second, last month….I would just stop paying period on the apartment with no heat and rats and stash that money in the bank and use it then to pay those fees. By the time they sue and evict me, I would be long gone. Why put the money into escrow I have no idea. No judge would go on the side of the landlord in living conditions like that and force ex-tenants to pay rent.
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Hey Kens, to rent a uhaul tho you need both a DL and a CC, some people don’t have.
yep. i have neither of those. so i could never rent a uhaul truck so im always forced to go the man with a van route on craigslist. only had one bad experience. all my stuff was in the lobby for HOURS. i kept calling and the guy was like im at my neices birthday party :-/ he kept promising he’d be there, and after calling him 5 more times he shut his phone off and never showed up. we had to scramble to find someone last minute on craigslist, which we were able to do and it worked out. another time two movers i hired with a van smoked weed in the van while they were driving! i was like wtf?
*rob*
“If you’re in a rent stabilized place for 20 years, you’re probably paying so little that it’s a good deal, even with the rats and collapsing ceilings.”
Anyplace with rats and collapsing ceilings is NOT a good deal no matter what you’re paying, and there’s nothing “rational” about staying. Poor or rich, you need to figure a way out of the situation. Or, stick around and get bitten by rats or knocked cold by a falling ceiling. That’s just my opinion.