It Came From 4th Ave!
Pictures can’t really do justice to the latest addition to 4th Avenue’s much-vaunted streetscape and retail scene. Cinder block-o-licious! GMAP
Pictures can’t really do justice to the latest addition to 4th Avenue’s much-vaunted streetscape and retail scene. Cinder block-o-licious! GMAP
another freakin ugly building by Gregory Rigas, the owner.
he should be beaten
The windows are strange because they open out from the far right hand and far left hand side instead of opening from the middle out…….did i explain that right????
You shouldn’t; cinderblocks aren’t structural.
Whenever I walked by that building I wondered if that lone corner could support the entire structure. I feel safer seeing the cinder blocks.
A few times when I walked past, there were five or six apparently homeless guys camped out in the space. On a day that it was raining, it was SRO. I’m wondering if the building just got tired of chasing people off and decided to seal the space up instead.
denton, you’re quite wrong about the zoning. The zoning is R8A with a C2-4 overlay. C2-4 permits retail.
Was the car parking there illegal (not allowed)? I noticed a few weeks ago that they had a two-car carport, but no curb cut. Personally, losing the carport is a plus.
Sorry – I didn’t read the whole thread.
The developer can agree to stabilize the units for incentives (tax breaks etc)
The city stabilization laws I believe that BOTH things need to happen
a) rent reaches 2k
b) household salary 150k (over a certain amount of time)
my old manhattan apt started out at 1,800 – stabilized, and when it went to 2,000 it was still stabilized because i didn’t make 150k
a stabalized apartment means that it’s an apartment that is regulated by the rent stabalization board of nyc which means it can only go up a certain percentage each year.
an apartment can cost any amount and still be stabalized.
however, if a landlord wants to OPT out of the stabalization of an apartment, he can get it unstabalized once it hits 2000 dollars and / or the tenant makes a certain amount of money in income, and or he does a certain amount of renovation (i think 40K to an apt)? not sure about that last part tho.
im not sure what the benefit is tho for a landlord to keep it stabalized but im sure there must be some reason.
*rob*