Sidewalk Awning Question


Here’s a question for people who know city building codes…there’s a business in my aunt’s neighborhood that has a sidewalk awning that extends the full width of the storefront, and then over the full width of the sidewalk. To top matters off, they have those metallic pennants that festoon used car lots extending out from their building to public trees. Clearly it’s ugly, and I don’t care for it. Do I have any recourse to get them to take these down?

Categories: Quality of Life
By Minmin | 09/16/2010 10:45 AM | Comment

Elizabethan England RE prices


OK–this is a weird post, but I came across this factoid this week. Apparently in late Elizabethan England, real estate prices were set at somewhere between 12 and 14 years of rent, with 14 years seen as a “good price.”

By this rationale, an apartment in Park Slope that rents for $2500 should sell for about $360,000, so a PS townshouse would sell for about $720,000. Just throwing this out there.

By Minmin | 02/13/2009 5:15 PM | Comment