'Slumlike Conditions' in Foreclosed Slope Building
The Daily News had an article on a group of tenants who live in 294 Fifth Avenue in the Slope and say conditions in the rent-controlled building have deteriorated since the property went into foreclosure a couple years ago and a receiver was appointed to take care of it. The building’s boiler, for example, didn’t…
The Daily News had an article on a group of tenants who live in 294 Fifth Avenue in the Slope and say conditions in the rent-controlled building have deteriorated since the property went into foreclosure a couple years ago and a receiver was appointed to take care of it. The building’s boiler, for example, didn’t work for three weeks this winter, and the front-door lock is broken. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio held a news conference yesterday to support the tenants in seeking a court order that would force the receiver to make repairs. According to the article: “The slumlike conditions at 294 Fifth Ave. spotlight a growing concern: smaller apartment buildings that fall into disrepair in part because the building is overleveraged. ‘We think this is a growing problem around the city that the banks and lenders are not taking responsibility for,’ said de Blasio.”
Park Slope Tenants, de Blasio Team Up to Force Building Repairs [NY Daily News]
Paranoid bxgrl?
Who wouldn’t be paranoid about commenting on something that should be self-evident but who,after posting, must get ready for the team of bxgrl and MM to spring out from the hidden recesses of the brownstoner blog to quickly state without doubt that wherever there is someone in need, there is someone else who can and must be blamed?
Sounds more like projecting bxgrl.
benson, real life examples like yours and Br00klynGuys fall on deaf ears when the liberals get wound up.
“As a LL, if my taxes were higher, so too would be the rent.”
if taxes were higher, property values would be lower.
Not to further the stereotype of class warfare but I just got an email that L.L. Bean is having a seersucker sale.
benson- as the super of the building he would be paying less rent, in any case.
“i would venture to say tax incentives for developers and ridiculously low property taxes for multifamily homes in Brooklyn are doing alot more to make rents higher”
This falls under what I call a “moronic statement.” Notice I didn’t call you a moron, before we get into this.
As a LL, if my taxes were higher, so too would be the rent.
Dave- re the 400$ a month tenant from last week- he did pay 1200$ to get rid of the mold after the landlord didn’t. the reason they are in court was not that he was suing to get the money back, but that the landlord was suing to get him out for being supposedly disruptive.
“”Did they have a videocam monitoring the situation so that they could verify this fact?”
Does anyone? Really. Is the only acceptable proof a frozen corpse? “Yep, they were really freezing to death.”
Answer:
Are there any records of complaints to the City’s Heat Complaint Bureau??? Why didn’t they call DeBlasio’s office when the heat was supposedly broken??? Why did they wait until the beginning of May to call the papers on it?
“Seriously, I have one question: how do you know that these tenants are poor?”
You can actually ask that? Really?
Answer:
Yes, I really asked it, and I’ll ask it again- how do you know that these people are in fact poor?
Allow me to provide an another example of people I know who live in a RC building. The walk-up building next to the condo where I live has some long-term RC tenants, including the super. In addition to being the super, he works as a medical technician and his wife is a teacher’s aid. They drive a customized Chevy Blazer and the kids are decked out in bling. Is it also unbelievable that I question if they are poor??
“Rent control is out-of-hand. It is one of the reasons market tenants pay so much on both ends”
the vast majority of rent regulated apartments are in manhattan.
i would venture to say tax incentives for developers and ridiculously low property taxes for multifamily homes in Brooklyn are doing alot more to make rents higher.