'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]
Montrose;
Seriously, I have one question: how do you know that these tenants are poor? Income verification is not required by the RC regulations, unless the rent approaches $2000/month.
I know a couple of people – my wife’s uncles to start with – who are quite well off and yet live in a RC apartment. Moreover, my wife’s uncle has the same “the landlord is a bastard” mentality shown on display here. He too would sooner take the effort to have a politician and a newspaper show up at this apartment, then to lift a finger to do any work on his apartment.
And now I can go back and read the comments.
What the hell do people expect is going to happen when you can’t charge enough money to make repairs to a building??????
Get rid of rent control and these proplems go away.
Rent control is the disease. Getting rid of it is the medicine.
“Do not speak – unless it improves on silence.”
Legion- there are people who believe that anyone, without knowing this circumstances- who has a rent-controlled apartment is a deadbeat or worse. No one but those who feel that way are playing the victimization card. Neither did either of us address you or your comment so get off your high, I am so much wiser horse. As for beating the class warfare drum, everything we know, we learned from you. You’re famous for beating your chest as the “sage” of brownstoner. I made a one sentence response to DH and it is accurate. You and DeLepp come out of the woodwork snarling and yapping. And proving my initial point as well.
And the same goes for your comments. No, we do not know her circumstances. But there are PLENTY of people in RC apartments making a lot of money…and by that I mean more than $100,000.
For all we know this woman will leave an estate of $1.5MM when she dies. Maybe, maybe not.
The whole system is flawed. And I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that there is a very high proportion of the people in RC apartments would be defined as “bad tenants” anywhere else.
bxgrl, did you see the son in the picture, if he’s so concerned about her safety why doesn’t he change the lock?
Yeah, he looked able to me.
BXgirl, your a pain in the ass.
bxgrl, first all my comments are worthless and now I need some manners.
I’ll take it where it came from.
easy there Montrose Morris and Bxgrl,
Some here are just arguing for common sense and don’t see why they should get clobbered over the head for pointing out some plain old common sense.
The two of you are famous for playing the victimization card, sometimes to a ridiculous extreme.
I posted earlier that the morons that are running the place could easily apply for HPD or FHA loans or grants to fix the place up.
On the other hand, I don’t see why it’s crazy to consider that some of the tenants or their families or their friends or even neighborhood organizations couldn’t come up with $50 bucks (not even, you can get a lock for $7.99) for the sake of safety.
Sometimes you two are too quick to sacrifice common sense for a chance to beat the class warfare drum.