Tuesday Links
Lawsuit Over Elevators in Public Housing [NY Times] Senate Shapes New Rescue Plan for M.T.A. [NY TImes] Schumer Seeks Grants to Battle Mortgage Fraud [NY Times] NYC Rent Taking Half of Income [NY Post] Savings in Sunset Park [NY Daily News] Shenanigans at Bay Ridge Bar [NY Daily News] Fighting Mortgage Fraud the Brooklyn Way…
Lawsuit Over Elevators in Public Housing [NY Times]
Senate Shapes New Rescue Plan for M.T.A. [NY TImes]
Schumer Seeks Grants to Battle Mortgage Fraud [NY Times]
NYC Rent Taking Half of Income [NY Post]
Savings in Sunset Park [NY Daily News]
Shenanigans at Bay Ridge Bar [NY Daily News]
Fighting Mortgage Fraud the Brooklyn Way [Crain’s]
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I’ve got a bailout plan for MTA: PUBLIC AUDIT
Agree these people are disabled and need working elevators. My comment was just statement of fact and not meant to imply anything about the merits of the lawsuit. Also, we had at least one disabled person in our coop who was unable to get in and out of the building after a certain hour because the supers would lock the only door she could use. It was a little bit mind boggling.
Jeezin’ F’n Christ. The people profiled in the article have cerebal palsy, strokes, and they are in their f’n wheelchairs while Pitbull and FenFen start saying the problem is that people are peeing in the elevator??!! What the F#*# does pee’in in the elevator have to do with it? Since when would that disable an elevator??? I’d like to see what FenFen would to about taking on personal responsiblity about his/her neighbors if he/she were in a wheelchair after suffering a stroke. These are some of the most insenstive responses I’ve ever seen on Brownstoner and I’m not man without a sense of humor. Jesus Christ, I used to defend the What for being funny but you two are so way out of line I hope you get struck by lightening, and get confined to a wheelchair in a building in which the elevator goes out regularly. Make the city do what they always require private landlords to do: fix the freaking problem.
What really gets me is the almighty “lawsuit” against the city — i.e. instead of actually punishing the agency (public housing, police dept etc) for their incompetence/abuse/slackness and forcing some kind of accountability directly on them, lawsuits simply go directly to the hardworking tax payer and take their money. Disgusting.
I always found it funny that residents complain about problems caused by other residents and blame the city.
Oh there’s trash is the hallways. Who put it there?
Oh the elevator is always vandalized. well who did it?
Oh it smells like urine everywhere. Who can’t find a toilet or let the morons into their building with the problem?
Why not take some responsibility as neighbors and not tolerate that behavior?
If these people lived in a privately owned building not subsidized by everyone else, somehow I think they wouldn’t be turning a blind eye to their neighbors, or their own, lack of responsibility.
chicken and egg syndrome when it comes to projects elevators. is the reason everyone pees in the elevators because they always break down or do they always break down cuz people pee in them? it’s not even just projects, in the building i lived in last year everyone peed in the elevator and stairwells too. it was gross. thank god i lived on the second floor and didnt need the elevator. maybe i am wrong and everyone really does need one bathroom per bedroom! if they gave a bathroom for every bedroom then maybe people wouldnt pee in the elevators. that doesnt make much sense tho.
*rob*
The elevators in my coop in Queens used to break down and be out for several days, just like in the projects described in the NYT story.