Monday Links
Planning to Repaint? Read This First [NY Times] Mortgages: Verifying Borrowers’ Finances [NY Times] Park Domes Fenced Off to Protect Children [NY Times] Woman Rescued From a Trash Chute in Brooklyn [NY Times] More Reductions Proposed in MTA Service [NY Times] Old-School Printing Tradition Lives On In Greenpoint [NY Times] Tavern of Dean Abruptly Loses…
Planning to Repaint? Read This First [NY Times]
Mortgages: Verifying Borrowers’ Finances [NY Times]
Park Domes Fenced Off to Protect Children [NY Times]
Woman Rescued From a Trash Chute in Brooklyn [NY Times]
More Reductions Proposed in MTA Service [NY Times]
Old-School Printing Tradition Lives On In Greenpoint [NY Times]
Tavern of Dean Abruptly Loses Its Lease [NY Times]
Brooklyn Woman Run Over By Q Train [NY Post]
More Abuse Allegations Aimed at Brooklyn Rabbi [NY Daily News]
Sanitation Dept Wants to Toss Ghost Bike Memorials [NY Daily News]
Park Slope Meter Prices to Rise [Brooklyn Paper]
Markowitz Vows To Fight Coney Concert Challenge [Brooklyn Eagle]
Coney Island Mermaid Parade Rings In Summer Early [NY1]
Phun Factory Reopens in Williamburg [NY1]
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We’re going to be doing lead risk assessment and adding riders to coop appilcation forms that the building has lead paint and to deal with it. Currently coop on the hook for only windows and exterior apt doors. Unfortunately our parlour floor windows cost $5K a piece and we’ve got 8.
I’ve heard so many horor stories about tenants in NYC that last year I lowered my tenants rent because they are so wonderful.
I had tenants who took it upon themselves to have their duplex tested for lead paint, after we each signed the forms acknowledging that I had no knowledge of lead paint. To my shock, the only places where lead paint turned up was on the doors and door frames on the top floor, and even though it wasn’t chipping (the apartment had just been gut renovated), and had just been painted, I had them all repainted with lead encapsulating paint to calm my tenants’ hysteria. This after they reported me to the Department of Health, which came to the house thinking I was a slum lord and that my tenants’ kid was eating paint chips and cockroaches, and left thinking, as I did, that my tenants were insane.
Lead paint issues are now a nightmare. The new law went into effect 4/22/10 and is going to cost a fortune for any renovation. We’ve got danger signs and doors sealed due to a lead paint issue with first floor shareholder. Unfortunate that her kid has elevated lead levels but then she shouldn’t have sanded/stipped while 5 months pregos.
“That sure was a flock of wine we got away with.” — Tracy Lord
What happened, Suburbandude? I assume any house that was built before the seventies has lead paint; certainly any thing built in the early 1900s.
Morning, CGar. Glad you survived the ride home.
NEVER get your house checked for lead paint. NEVER!
And, that was the second article I read, BOD. I’m sorry the woman was killed, but her best friend was killed by a subway last year, so you think she would’ve thought twice before crossing the tracks!?!?