What's in a Name?
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is a man on a mission, a mission to stem the tide of broker-named neighborhoods like “ProCro” and “Greenwood Heights”! According to City Room, Jeffries is going to introduce a bill next week that would require new names for neighborhoods get approved by community boards, the City Council and the mayor. The…
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is a man on a mission, a mission to stem the tide of broker-named neighborhoods like “ProCro” and “Greenwood Heights”! According to City Room, Jeffries is going to introduce a bill next week that would require new names for neighborhoods get approved by community boards, the City Council and the mayor. The bill calls for fining brokers who use unofficial names in their listings and, perhaps, suspending their licenses. City Room quotes Jeffries as saying that real estate agents “are allowed to essentially pull names out of thin air in order to rebrand a neighborhood and have the effect of raising rents or home prices.” A senior vice president for the Real Estate Bard of New York, meanwhile, says it would be “difficult to legislate the use of an official name when these neighborhood names are not legally defined.” Still: BoCoCa, we hardly knew ye.
‘SoBro’ and ‘ProCro’ No Joke to Assemblyman [City Room]
Assemblyman Wants To Prevent Realtors From Renaming Neighborhoods [NY1]
Well, that was how we named manhattan wasn’t it? by polling the locals?
I can’t decide if Hakeem is an irrelevant fascist? or an irrelevant dinosaur?
The bill doesn’t address brokers misrepresenting where a property is located.
The bill only addresses brokers inventing new neighborhood names.
brooklyndreamland no the word “luxury condo”
Amzi- Bed-Stuy is an abbreviation,used when people like myself are too lazy to write it out. not a nickname. BoCoCa mashes together three neighborhoods into one fake entity.
DH- I think it’s all part of it. At least this might be a first step. realtors consistently misrepresent where their properties are.
But, cobble, a lot of people (Pete) disagree about the eastern border of Cobble Hill and say it’s not Court but Smith. If I’m not mistaken, there’s also disagreement about the DeGraw Street boundary, at least east of Court.
Pedro? You here?
Seems awfully frivolous given the budget situation, teacher layoffs, rampant gun violence, etc. And who is really taking what brokers say at face value anyway. Is anyone buying a house because what it said in the listing? If you’re foolish enough to think that brokers aren’t stretching the truth maybe you deserve what you get. Maybe we could legislate the usage of the work “Mint” out of real estate listings as well. I’ve been to plenty of Mint listings and there is a term that has no value.
Hey Bed-Stuy is a “nickname”… It should be Bedford- Stuyvesant. Or if you want to be technical Bedford (Corners)or Stuyvesant Heights.
I had no idea that there was a Real Estate Bard for New York. Does the job consist of writing villanelles and ballads about, say, title insurance?
I’m certainly in favor of supporting poetry and the arts, but in this market, I’m surprised that this position still exists.
“Brokers misrepresent where their properties are- take that jerk last week who was marketing places squarely in Bed-Stuy as being Clinton Hill. ”
that’s not what he’s taking on