This is particularly unfair to elderly homeowners.

Rats gotta eat homie

>Because thousands of families including mine rely on it to be able to afford to live here maybe?

What about the families who want to live in NYC but can't because they need to pay market rate to subsidize lower rent for people like you?

Why do you think you deserve preferential treatment?

An asset management associate at Citi whose mother was the first female executive at a major financial institution and who can draw on a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties would be less likely than most to have this issue. That he ended up groveling at housing court is even more proof of how deep his lies were.

Folks who struggled financially at points in their life absolutely belong in Congress. We just don’t need this one in Congress.

How do you track who has registered them and who didn't in a building of hundreds of people with constant guests coming in and out?

Its like buildings that require pets to be registered. They kindda check when you move in (maybe), but after that its essentially free for all, since its impossible for the building to keep track.

>Still, a blanket ban of all ebike batteries is very silly.

Regardless of the reasoning behind the ban, enforcing nuance in apartment rules is basically impossible because of the burden of proof required. It kindda has to be all or nothing, else its nothing by default.

Nah, the conservatives on this subreddit have always been trying to portray all coverage of him as excessive. One even called criticism of Santos “bigotry” at one point.

Even if not so secretly. Our building has them banned (been in the leases from day 1 when they started leasing), and there's a bunch of people with them anyway. (They're even allowed if you park them in the basement, but people insist on having them in their units).

But if they refuse to comply, what can you do? Evict them? Sure, but that takes forever right now, and they know this.

Guess we're at the point where Santos is so hated that a few weirdos are starting to defend him just to be contrarian.

In 2014 when he was 26. What 26 year old doesn’t have financial difficulties in nyc. I’m not on the santos train but IMO this is just click bait

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Because thousands of families including mine rely on it to be able to afford to live here maybe? And yes I work and yes I make a pretty good income. I’ve had my place for many years and it has enabled me to live here, work here, pay taxes here and raise my kid here so far.

But yes let’s just get rid of the already paltry rent protections a minority of New Yorkers have which will go a long way to helping the severe affordable housing crunch here. Excellent idea.

You can save about 10 million by not paying the councilmen and women.

Uh a sharp decrease in regulated units when the city needs more, not less, of them is not a good thing, no actually. Exploiting loopholes to remove apartments from regulation is not a good thing. The loophole should not exist or someone should be enforcing this better so that it’s not exploited merely to remove apartments from regulation.

My parents bought their house for 200k in late 90s. Before then we lived in Brooklyn. By the time I was looking for homes in the area, maybe 2012 or 2013, they were 750k average. Now over a million. So yeah, it’s been crazy trying to stay in the neighborhood.

Well I'll believe you since you've been here so long, but damn if rents haven't skyrocketed alongside these Williamsburg-lite stores. It certainly feels like gentrification

That really sucks. I wish you nothing but the best. Just remember you are not alone, and a great many people are experiencing the same right now. Doesn't help immediately, but does increase the likelihood they do more to fix it.

> Of course, the city always budgets conservatively – even during the days of former Mayor Bill de Blasio, where budgets grew in apparent relation to the mayor’s own towering height.

😂😂😂

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They will care once the population reaches such an extent that the rat mites start to feed on them and their pets.

I am genuinely sorry you're going through this.

Call 311 and let them know you are going to the media/court, if you have the money to make good on it. They will have a team out who actually cares pretty quickly.

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Been there for more than 2 decades actually.

E: to address those kitschy stores - Ridgewood has had stores open and close every year. I remember Ridgewood theater, I remember FYE, the Wendy’s before current one, ABC moving 3 times, KMart, even a damn beepers store. A decade ago, there were like 4 locations of Esparks (like Starbucks, but blue). So it’s not just last 4 years. It’s been like this as far as I remember.

Do you live in Ridgewood? I've been here almost a decade and to say Ridgewood isn't gentrifying is insane.

We went from shitty Chinese food and Corato's pizza to having two Michelin Star restaurants in like 4 years. The amount of kitchy knick-knack shops on Woodward ave is insane, and they are almost all newly in business in the last 4 years as well.

If everyone was homeless we wouldn't need to care about rising rent.