Illegal Hotel in Park Slope
What can be done about illegal brownstone conversions into hotels/inns in the neighborhood? There is one innkeeper in the name with three properties that are not registered as SRO’s with the DOB. It attracts quite a lot of transients to our normally quiet neighborhood and blocks our street every morning for airport taxis. It’s a…
What can be done about illegal brownstone conversions into hotels/inns in the neighborhood? There is one innkeeper in the name with three properties that are not registered as SRO’s with the DOB. It attracts quite a lot of transients to our normally quiet neighborhood and blocks our street every morning for airport taxis. It’s a shame these homes aren’t available for rent/sale to residents and it is hurting our quality of life. Does the city crack down on these illegal conversions or is there an agency to report this to?
“It’s NYC. If you don’t like your actions affecting others so much and you don’t like so many rules that guard quality of life for everybody not just you, move to Wyoming. Or Alaska. Where you can’t see another person for miles.
Seriously though, doesn’t my statement make more sense? ”
No It doesn’t- because If you don’t like taxis outside your house- YOU should have stayed in Wyoming or Alaska.
What if a whole bunch of young singles lived amongst those buildings and brought random friends over at all hours of the night and there were taxis back and forth on your block even more so than now- You’d wish you had a bunch of backpacking Euros on your block.
What if those 3 brownstones were filled with Drug addled FAMILIES? Yelling and cursing all night and with no way to get rid of them because they own their homes?
Theres no way to guarantee good neighbors- so if you can’t deal with what comes you’re way in a large dense city- THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD MOVE TO ALASKA OR WYOMING where your biggest problem is a BULL MOOSE in HEAT or even worse- SARAH PALIN!!!!
If you’re not having problems with arson, gunfire, and parties with soundsystems louder than a club in the Meatpacking District at all hours, consider your blessings.
Put me down in the “Quit yer whining” category.
I think Park Slope attracts a different caliber of ‘transient’. Probably 70% of B&B guests are grandparents visiting family in the neighborhood. A lot of the rest are Europeans who want to experience brownstone Brooklyn – not backpackers looking to party. I think its a extremely valuable service for residents and for local business. That said, the B&B owner should be considerate of their neighbors and should keep their operations small enough to safely manage.
I’m going to start using the same logic against those who always tell people they have to put up with all kinds of crap because “this is NYC”.
Here goes:
It’s NYC. If you don’t like your actions affecting others so much and you don’t like so many rules that guard quality of life for everybody not just you, move to Wyoming. Or Alaska. Where you can’t see another person for miles.
Seriously though, doesn’t my statement make more sense?
“It attracts quite a lot of transients…”
Oh dear, are these transients urinating on the sidewalk and committing crimes to support their drug habits?
No, but they take taxis to the airport!!!
oh ha. i didnt catch the part where it was three houses.
*rob*
Rob — If it was a single owner-occupied house where the owner rented out the garden to travellers, you might have a point on the issue of “up in other people’s business”. I’d want to know more facts.
But this is crazy. The OP claims there three buildings on the same block being operated illegally by the same guy. That’s a huge level of disrespect to the neighbors on a residential block and doesn’t deserve any sympathy.
Because we live in a dense city, where our actions affect other people’s lives. The rules exist to try to make sure the most annoying jerks don’t get to annoy their neighbors. There are plenty of places around the world where might is right, but you wouldn’t want to live there: as a relatively poor and powerless person, you would be messed with on a daily basis.