Grand Avenue Building Gets Shamed
Six-inch rats. Los cucarachas. European backpackers. These are just a few of the problems reportedly plaguing the four-unit rental building at 71 Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill, according to a report from NY1. Others include leaky ceilings, broken toilets and mold. The current building manager, Sam Weinberger, says he just took over recently (though ownership…
Six-inch rats. Los cucarachas. European backpackers. These are just a few of the problems reportedly plaguing the four-unit rental building at 71 Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill, according to a report from NY1. Others include leaky ceilings, broken toilets and mold. The current building manager, Sam Weinberger, says he just took over recently (though ownership hasn’t changed) and that the problems are all due to former managers. “Repairs 100 percent, I’m going to do it,” Weinberger said. “Til when? Give me some time.” The Pratt Area Community Council has taken up the tenants’ cause, believing that the problems at the building are part of a plan to clear the building so it can be redeveloped. After all, there are several new buildings on the block, though most of them have yet to be filled.
Tenants In Brooklyn Protest Living Conditions [NY1]
Actually, that’s now they’re everywhere – even, as we’ve seen the Time Warner Center, the Brooklyn DA’s office, various movie theatres, Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombe & Fitch, taxicabs, subway stations. Scary!
Please, cockroaches and bed bugs were around well before rent control and will be here long after. I agree – hipsters and travelers on the cheap who stay in dubious places like illegal youth hostels are a leading cause of bed bugs, but know, unfortunately, they’re everywhere. Bring back DDT (for professional use only).
BTW, a survey of European tourists puts the French as the cheapest (at least in France) http://fr.voyage.yahoo.com/p-promotions-3359573
Rent stabilization doesn’t just preserve eccentricity in NY, it preserves the people who are the very fabric of NY and who built and maintain this city. Hard working types who may not have an MBA from a top school or be some kind of internet genius, but do all the jobs that keep our city running and many more. Where would the executive be without his secretary or receptionist? Where are you going to live on $50K/yr. before taxes, especially if you have a family?
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Once again: If we didn’t have rent control, we’d never have these problems.
oh really wise one? what about all those dirty adult children living 10 to an apartment in bushwick. they live just as dirty as these rent controlled tenants, probably dirtier in fact, except they pay more to live like that (suckas!)
rent control preserves some of the last bits of eccentricity in nyc! get rid of it and it becomes even more bland than it already is.
*rob*
Once again: If we didn’t have rent control, we’d never have these problems.
rob – you might be interested to know I’d never seen a cockroach in real life until I came to NY. And I thought bedbugs had gone the way of human lice and dodos.
european backpeddlers arent bedbugs? that’s where all the bedbugs are from btw. dirty eurotrash visitors! they really need bedbug scans at airports. or at least the bedbug sniffing dogs.
it’s funny now that i think i about it, most of the time my dog does bark at someone on the street they seem like european visitors!!! coincidence!?
*rob*
They probably do, ditto.
It’s virtually possible to get rid of the dread European back-packing cucaracha rats; they’re worse than bed bugs.
at least they haven’t got bedbugs