'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]
bedstuy11216:
Of course there is a middle ground, but don’t you see what happened here? Some poor, sick old lady is pounced upon here by jealous real estate vultures with no evidence whatsoever that she is cheating the system. The reflex from most posters here was to fire away at her, because, god forbid, she pays so little in rent that she shouldn’t complain about the heat. Meanwhile, Charles Rangel is reelected and is the type of person that should be exempted from rent control, although due respect to Charlie, he is a war veteran who was originally quite deserving of ONE rent controlled apartment.
Class warfare is the game being employed by politicians these days, many of whom wish to create conditions akin to Victorian England. Is that what we want? 19th Century British ideas of economic survival of the fittest?
“Maybe if we lock MM and Benson in a room we can find the path to world peace :)”
More likely the path to thermonuclear devastation 😉
“You reap what you sow.”
where does that leave spongers?
I feel like I am reading a transcript of a clash between FoxNews and MSNBC.
The reality is that each side has some very valid points. But we spend so much time shouting those valid points at each other that we don’t take the time to actually listen and assess and find some common ground to bring about solutions. There has got to be a middle ground. I know this is only a blog post, but it really bothers me that this is just a microcosm of what is happening in our government right now.
We need social safety nets for some people (some for life others just to get thru a particular hurdle). If not for altruistic reasons then for practical ones. A system that only allows for exteremes in have and have nots is miserable for the ‘have nots’ and a dangerous set up for the ‘haves’.
Some people will game the system (human nature). So we have to have checks and balances to make sure the system is truly serving the needy. This is why I don’t understand the hesitation to block those making signifcant income from renting RC and RS apartments.
Maybe if we lock MM and Benson in a room we can find the path to world peace 🙂
I want to see this same story written about a rent controlled apartment in Brownsville. Nobody here will give a shit because none of the posters here are jealous of some old lady paying $150 a month rent in Brownsville. Admit it, you’re all just a bunch of jealous, NIMBY, hypocrites with a few exceptions. You’re all vacuous, materialistic, limousine liberals.
I want to see this same story written about a rent controlled apartment in Brownsville. Nobody here will give a shit because none of the posters here are jealous of some old lady paying $150 a month rent in Brownsville. Admit it, you’re all just a bunch of jealous, NIMBY, hypocrites with a few exceptions. You’re all vacuous, materialistic, limousine liberals.
Those Bolsheviks are always knocking on my door with that Watchtower magazine.
Or maybe I can stay in Brooklyn where I have lived since before it was fashionable. You know, back when nobody cared what rent somebody paid on 5th Ave in Brooklyn because they wouldn’t be caught dead there. Now that there are some fake French restaurants there (seriously, do you yuppies know how fake and crappy Moutarde and Belleville are — you’d eat my shit if I said it was French and pay me for it) you want to sit in judgment of whether somebody in a rent controlled apartment is poor and speculate that she can actually afford to fix the boiler, locks, etc. by herself? But yeah, the sentiment of your attack is straight from the FOX News playbook — somebody disagrees with you, so they aren’t worthy to live in America and should move to . . . Belarus. Don’t worry, class warfare will catch up to you one day. You reap what you sow.
> when the Bolsheviks finally knock on your doors
An event only slightly less likely than the Rapture…