'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]
Jaguar, you sing a sorry song of left wing liberal discontent. Maybe France is actually better for you, or Greece or Belarus.
Give me a break. I am so sick of taking care of people who are, in large part, lazy. Build a f*cking bonfire if the heat goes off. You’re paying $149 in Park Slope. I pay $2,500 because I play the game honestly. Don’t like your conditions (which my tax dollars fund), step one, go to college (can’t affrod college? join the military), step two, send out resumes, step three, get a job. My taxes are high to support public assistance for, in large part, the unmotivated. You know, the ones buying every goddamn scratch-off card and cigarettes at corner stores. With my tax dollars. Awesome system.
Too many privileged people on here acting like people in rent controlled apartment invented class warfare. I guess your scared of what will happen when the Bolsheviks finally knock on your doors. You deserve whatever you will get, that’s for sure, for harping on some old, sick lady complaining about the heat being off in the winter, and, oh yeah, the fucking lock that you think she can change for $50 or whatever. When your parents were paying for you to go to NYU, that lady was dodging bullets on 5th Ave. Now that it’s safe over there and you can eat fake French food at Belleville or Moutarde and pretend your sorry ass in Paris, her low rent is somehow inconvenient to you because you’re jealous that you have to pay market rate? I don’t think the Bolsheviks are going to take long to find you guilty of class warfare. You’re the same pussies who complained during the transit strike that those entitled transit workers get better benefits than you and that they should step to it and get back to work because it was sure inconvenient for you to have to walk in the cold to the office Christmas Party.
And more totally unsubstantiated facts this time from DIBS:
“There’s another reality here that seems to have hit them in the face.
Sleazier landlords tend to be the ones who buy RC buildings.”
There’s another reality here that seems to have hit them in the face.
Sleazier landlords tend to be the ones who buy RC buildings.
that’s a fact of life for tenants in these situations. It comes with the territory.
They need to oftentimes suck it up or go pay a market rent somewhere.
reality sucks.
well, *phew!*
*rob*
Rob – don’t worry about them. There’s moves afoot to raise the income limits to $300,000 from the current $170,000 or so. The rich will remain protected so you can rest easy.
$159 is still too damn high as far as I’m concerned.
on the flip side… what about the truly richie richies in soho who pay like 1000 dollars a month for a ginormous loft? and there are MANY of them. go after them, not the senior citizen in the oxygen mask! and those types of benefitted from the loft laws of the 70s are always in the NYTimes bragging about their windfalls!!! ALWAYS!!!
*rob*