Tuesday Links
Panel Backs Rent Increase of One Percent for Stabilized Apartments [NY Times] Brooklyn Park Projects Drag on for Years [NY Times] City Council OKs $3.5 Million for Extra Neighborhood Cleaning in Brooklyn and Beyond [NY Post] Ocean Hill’s Small Chauncey J Stop Has Third Highest Crime Rate in Subway System [NY Daily News] Checker Cabs Come…
Panel Backs Rent Increase of One Percent for Stabilized Apartments [NY Times]
Brooklyn Park Projects Drag on for Years [NY Times]
City Council OKs $3.5 Million for Extra Neighborhood Cleaning in Brooklyn and Beyond [NY Post]
Ocean Hill’s Small Chauncey J Stop Has Third Highest Crime Rate in Subway System [NY Daily News]
Checker Cabs Come to Brooklyn [WSJ]
Brooklyn Heights Attorney Henry Gutman Appointed as Chair of Brooklyn Navy Yard [Brooklyn Eagle]
Bike Lane Eyed for Industrial Metropolitan Avenue [Brooklyn Paper]
Tracking Brooklyn’s Rapid-Fire Gentrification With Google Street View [Gizmodo]
Central Brooklyn Food Co-op Members Debate Name [Brooklyn Reader]
How Well Do You Know Brooklyn History? [amNY]
Permits Filed for Boerum Hill’s 613 Baltic Street [NY YIMBY]
Outdoor Dinner Party With Ben Folds Set in Secret Prospect Park Spot [DNAinfo]
Thousands of Bees Removed from Downtown Brooklyn Scaffold [DNAinfo]
Construction Worker Seriously Hurt in 25-Foot Fall at Williamsburg Whole Foods Site [DNAinfo]
Campaign Aims to Halt Influx of Bushwick Bars [DNAinfo]
Photo by Chris Havens
Property taxes went up 2.8 percent, but the rent increase for rent-stabalized apartments is 1 percent. Deblasio fought for a freeze. His team thinks that landlords should incur more cost as they “only” spend, on average, over 60 percent on maintenance.
Having once lived in a building with rent stabilized tenants, the costs of running a building are shouldered much more by those who are paying market rates. Their neighbors. Owning a building is expensive. How people think that they should not get a realistic increase because it is “unfair” for landlords to make a living from their property is beyond me. Not to mention that everything costs more than it did in 1978.
Simmer.