'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]
“Just the facts.”
Which mean nothing, really. Perhaps the landlord, being in Park Slope and all, did not want to call attention to the building by letting it look like hell. Did you go into the apartments? Of course not, so the outside of the building, like wearing clean clothes on a dirty body, really doesn’t prove or disprove anything.
I’m still amazed at the precognitive psychic ability of several of you who can look at someone and determine whether or not they can afford to pay more for an apartment. I hadn’t realized there was a “poor” uniform or look. Should the poor be required to make it easy for everyone by wearing rags, or jumpsuits with a “P” on the sleeve, or just sackcloth and ashes?
Perhaps she looks better off because she was meeting with DiBlasio and the media, and she wanted to look her best. How many times do any of us get our pictures in the paper, or get noticed by politicians or the media? Perhaps she has enough personal pride to make herself and her surroundings as nice as she can, money or no money. You know, the way most people of limited means try to do, the way your parents, my parents, and many others did. Perhaps she didn’t get the memo that she should be living in filth and squalor like the despised slum dwellers br00kln hates so much.
All of which boils down to unless you are a forensic accountant with X-ray vision, you don’t know what this woman can or cannot afford, no matter what you “suspect”. What gives any of you the right to “suspect” otherwise?
I just walked home from Methodist Hospital. I had to get some stitches in my finger from a light bulb that exploded in my hand.
I took a very slight detour to take a fresh look at this building. I reiterate: from the outside, one would be hard pressed to call this building “slumlike”. It has a new front door, and all of the windows have been replaced. The facade is in good shape, and the cornice is painted. The entrance hallway is completely clean.
Just the facts.
Great thread. Here’s my question:
For all these landlords that bitch and whine about how expensive maintaining a building is, who is the guy holding a gun to their head and forcing them to buy buildings that are inhabited by RC/RS tenants?
“Play it loud and proud!”
Yeah because god knows if we posted something using “Blackie” there’d be all sorts of problems.
LOL Legion, you are funny. (commentary on picture – guy playing pocket pool in gaberdine pants…)
*Rob* I just assumed everybody knew that was an old Gil Scott Heron song. Play it loud and proud!
no one that lives in chelsea has a problem with the projects in chelsea.
*rob*
After reading all this I have to admit to the poster that said no one would have given a shit if she lived in Brownsville and paid 149.00, because that is true.
As a child me and Grandma would ride the fifth ave bus to Atlantic Ave, and Park Slope back in the 70’s was shitty. We came from Bay Ridge and we could see the difference. She lived there and no one probably cared, and no one even gave her rent a second thought……….but now, the area is hip, trendy fashionable and all that good stuff that raises the rents, so now all of a sudden people have a problem with her rent control………..
just like the projects in Chelsea, they were built out of the way, in a non-nothing neighborhood, now it is hip trendy and fashionable, and the people spending thousands on rent suddenly have a problem with the projects………………
How much you want to bet some of them are renting out rooms in those CHEAP apts for 800-1000 a month? And getting it because folks want to live in the “Slope”.