Does Your Front Door Belong to Everyone in the Co-op?
In July, a Clinton Hill co-op board decided to enforce a house rule: no decorations on any doors, without getting board approval first. That meant that Vincent Romano had to remove the magnetic American flag he’d placed there to commemorate a relative killed in the 9/11 attacks, reports Habitat magazine. Despite the bad press that…
In July, a Clinton Hill co-op board decided to enforce a house rule: no decorations on any doors, without getting board approval first. That meant that Vincent Romano had to remove the magnetic American flag he’d placed there to commemorate a relative killed in the 9/11 attacks, reports Habitat magazine. Despite the bad press that Willoughby Walk Co-ops endured after word got out, the board persisted, not realizing that the “Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005” protects one’s right to display the American flag on one’s own property. Except it turns out the door to your unit belongs to the co-op as a whole. “In a co-op you don’t own; you have possessory-use right for inside the apartment,” says an attorney. Which means co-ops are immune from the federal law, and maybe you should ask your co-op board next time you want to alter your door, no matter how patriotic the change.
Authoritarian Boards, Public Rancor, Wise Compromise [Habitat]
Photo by PropertyShark.
I were ill as I saw this video, yup, yup, but I say that Palin is ultimately all about job creation and, oh!… (as I glanced at my notes,) I’ll get back to ya about what it is that I will do, because as I stood on my roof last night and gazed at Cuba, and I say it’s time to keep an eye on Castro from rearing up and entering Miami’s night clubs.
I sorta agree with the board on this, especially in a big coop like that where the rules have to be less flexible. Used to make me nuts to see all the kids’ ‘artwork’ on doors in some coops. I mean, we all love our kids, but hang it on the frig!
Nokilissa, Halloween has come early. I know I’m preaching to the converted, but here’s another one for you to check out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc
I think you’re right, Biff. Of course, Sarah Jessica Palin. SJP.
I’m going to take a gander at the video Bxgrl pointed to, just to knock a teensy bit more terror into my soul.
And MM, seriously? You think Brain freeze? She couldn’t even eek out a Newsweek or a Time? This is the potential President we’re talking about here!
I mean, one probably can’t expect her to spit out Mother Jones, Atlantic Weekly, Utne Reader, New Republic, Harpers or New Yorker, but give me a break! And there are plenty of conservative reads out there she could be reading… I just don’t get it.
Nokilissa, perhaps you had Sex and the City on your mind with the Sarah Jessica Palin mixup.
MM, you really are being charitable. Other theories I’ve heard is that the Republicans are pumping her with information and sound bites to regurgitate to the press and during the debate which is overwhelming her and going to interfere with her populist rantings and natural ability to connect with “Joe Sixpack”. We can only hope.
My sister lives in a coop complex- one of the most beautiful in fact, in the city. every holiday the doors and hallways are full of holiday decorations and no one complains. It’s very family oriented. One year, the super put up an entire scary graveyard with cobwebs everywhere outside his doors and the kids (ok. I confess, me too) loved it.
It’s ridiculous. A coop board doesn’t have more important things to worry about? Jeez. Seems to me if you can afford to buy into the coop, you’re not going to put up a full size poster of a naked Jessica Palin 😉 (sorry noki! I couldn’t resist! Biff is right. we love you!)
Sorry but whatever happened to us? 9-11 isn’t sacred, but it sure is insensitive and cold to bitch about having a flag on your door in honor of a relative who died. Just goes to show we have become all about appearances and zero about substance.
I saw that interview Biff. And there is another video on Huffington, far down on the left, that has a video bit showing that she neither knows who Hamas is or what their role is in the Middle East. So if you really want to be scared, look that one up.
Knock knock
“who’s there?”
9/11
“9/11 who?”
What, you forgot already?
Actually, Biff, she’s mastered the art of not answering a question. While all politicians do it, she’s taken it to new lows, she won’t even answer the easy ones.
On a charitable day, I’d say she was so nervous that the names of any papers or magazines just left her. We’ve all had brain freeze, where you can’t remember your own phone number. However, coupled with the rest of her package, I agree, she’s terrifying.
I saw. I laughed. I wept.
Today she is comparing herself to “Joe Sixpack” who needs to be represented in the position of vice-presidency. I think those were her exact words. I wept again.
And whatever happened to Ms. Palin’s Macaca Moment on the radio several months back? When she could be heard giggling and laughing like a school girl while the shock jocks called Lyda Green (her political nemesis for having remained neutral during the gubernatorial election) a bitch and a cancer? Knowing that Lyda had survived breast cancer and a radical mastectomy only a couple of years before?
I think they buried it.