Yeah, expect it to become "official" with an announcement from my friend and yours, Rick. We do have a virtual doorman. It is official from Abigail Michaels, our concierge, and it is also official from StreetEasy, a site that Stuy Town uses to sell apartments. So, since selling is what is most important, even with a little bs thrown in, we have what we previously never had--that we knew. What is that you, say? You have no virtual doorman? Well, just speak to one. You will get the answer.
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@Jan 21, 9:19 PM. Everything you say is correct. As for the money from the City Council, surely that is taxpayers' money? I think the TA should be investigated. There is something very fishy about that organization. It wasn't always like that, but now it is a completely different organization from the TA we had years ago. That TA fought for tenants, did NOT schmooze and ass-kiss politicians and management and the fees were low. They probably could keep teir fees low back in the day because they had a very large membership; almost everybody who lived in the complex was a member of the TA and had a great deal of respect for the organization and its leaders. Totally different story today. I know that the make up of the residents is different now, with many more market raters and students living here. But if the TA can't adjust to that fact and operate effectively, then it should just go away.
If it was a TA that fought for all tenants and took on management about the noise, lack of heat, lack of security and the dorm situation, then I feel pretty sure that more tenants would want to join. So long as the TA just asks for money and fawns over politicians (who a great many tenants mistrust at best, despise at worst) it cannot expect much support from tenants.
@9:19
Excellent.
Now, would someone from the TA like to address any of these points?
I'm not a facebook member, or I'd repost your points on the TA page.
I'm quite sure at least a few TA members read here.
How about justifying your 50$ dues? If you have any reasonable responses, I'll consider becoming a dues paying member.
another FACT I'd like to mention is their total disregard of quality of life complaints and lease violations. namely, noise complaints which are rampant and criminally unaddressed.
The TA is a parasitic arm of management. Am glad that I didn’t pay dues this year.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/man-jumps-roof-13-story-manhattan-building-article-1.3772779
Near Ave C. 14th Street.
I wonder if this incident will be quickly forgotten, much like all the bad news that happens here.
No more Interest checks STR? What up with that?
The rich get richer, and the poor (middle class) slowly disappear.......................
This is from the first post on the ta Facebook page - "If you do live here and you are not a member of the TA (and so not in our database), make sure your page shows that you live here. A photo of the inside of your apartment is best—windows are distinctive or radiators or the kitchen. You can remove the photo after you've been approved."
Seems reasonable. I don't understand why people have a problem with this. I believe that the other tenants FB page asks for the same thing, a picture.
Anyone look at their PCVST Rent Interest Income Statement from JP Morgan Chase?
Interesting........
Man Jumps From Stuyvesant Town Building, NYPD Says
The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
By Brendan Krisel, Patch National Staff | Jan 22, 2018 6:23 pm ET
11:08
So you are going to stop posting without giving me a single recent TA accomplishment? Why am I not surprised... oh, that’s right, there are none!
As for the MCI’s, I do agree that the deck is stacked against the TA and tenants in general in Albany, but again, I don’t care. If you have been around for a while, which you say you have, than you know that the fight that previous TA leaderships put up against MCI’s is far greater than the whimpers of recent leadership.
I want to see a group that will fight, regardless of the obstacles at hand. I want to see a TA that stands besides tenants when the going gets tough, not tenants fighting on their own like the lady who fought the bunker construction. I want to see a TA that instead of saying “email Rick,” actually bringing the fight to Rick, regardless of his willingness.
The bottom line is the TA needs to grow some balls. Susan needs to stop showing up for every photo-op and start showing up for the tenants she was elected to serve. The TA will be best served the day she steps down and a real leader can step in.
Reporting illegal dangerous PCVST hotels directly to hotel industry and surprisingly AIRBNB itself will obtain better results than relying on lazy/complicit Blackstone refusing to pursue violations.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/hosts-illegal-airbnb-hid-vacate-order-wreath-probe-article-1.3773043
“Hosts of Illegal Brooklyn Airbnb Hid Vacate Order Under Holiday Wreath, Hotel Investigator Finds”
Hotel Association of New York City retained Sage Intelligence Group conducting sting operations that Blackstone would be deploying if it truly cared about PCVST resident safety compromised by rampant illegal PCVST hotel listings booked by, at any given time, hundreds of unidentified transient hotel guests.
“The sting — backed by the city’s powerful hotel industry, which has been a bitter foe of the home-renting site — sought out hosts with multiple listings in Brooklyn hotspots like Williamsburg and Greenpoint … Current law bars renting an entire apartment for fewer than 30 days ... critics of the site argue that many of the listings … are people operating de facto hotels.”
The article contains the following hilarious email message unknowingly sent by an illegal hotel host to sting investigators posing as illegal guests lodged in her illegal hotel – “DO NOT answer the door for anyone … DO NOT tell anyone you are renting on Airbnb, say you rented the room on Craigslist since last summer. DO NOT show them any Airbnb documents.”
In a running PCV joke, every time we introduce ourselves to “new” neighbors carrying luggage into an adjoining apartment we are informed they have been residing there for two years.
>>No more Interest checks STR? What up with that?<<
I would expect them to come soon.
Man Jumps From Stuyvesant Town Building, NYPD Says
The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
By Brendan Krisel, Patch National Staff | Jan 22, 2018 6:23 pm ET
January 23, 2018 at 1:01 PM
Why?
12:53, just as they expect privacy by hiding behind the Peter Stuyvesant alias, I too expect my privacy. If that means I don’t get to join the page as a commenter, so be it. Bottom line is that I don’t know who that person is, and I’m not opening my page for even a minute to a person I don’t know and exposing my family and friends to this unknown person. With the way this world is these days, you are all fools if you do open up your page to them.
Like I said, they should go the route of Stuy Town in the 50’s and 60’s and ask some difficult questions that only a true resident would know.
More Security Deposit News and it is a whopper of a Security Deposit Story.
Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge do not have to adhere to city requirements on income for lottery apartments
Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge are using a marketing tool to get in more students who do not meet the lottery requirements
Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge are unable to fill the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village apartments. They are using a strange set up to move money from the (SV Angel Ron Conway ) multibillion dollar backed company Jetty to Blackstone Ivanhoe Cambridge. SV Angel is made up of tech staff who worked at AirBNB / THORN, DoorDash, Morgan Stanley who are all companies that have been involved in the property for years. AirBNB / THORN has been operating in Stuyvesant Town since 2010.
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/multifamily/blackstone-owned-stuytowns-new-relationship-with-jetty-reflects-the-future-of-property-management-83592
https://svangel.com/team/
That virtual doorman is a despicable example of overblown PR. They have nerve promoting that as an amenity. Every day I see more and more strangers in my building. I think that short term hotel rentals are the norm now
"Like I said, they should go the route of Stuy Town in the 50’s and 60’s and ask some difficult questions that only a true resident would know."
What kind of questions do they ask? So many of the people who live here now who might want to join the ta FB page probably wouldn't be able to answer questions about Stuy Town in the old days, if those are the kinds of questions they're asking.
Stuyvesant Town Suicide Attempt in London UK news with no mention of Stuyvesant Town being a Blackstone owned property.
Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5300911/Man-critical-condition-suicide-attempt-NY-roof.html
Companies like Jetty do not care about the quality of the resident they place in apartments and that has a direct effect on the safety of the building. They do not care about a community. They only care about bringing in money from anyone anywhere. Did the tenant association ever say anything about this? It has been going on since last year!
Jetty care only about the quantity of residents translated to profits. If the city council thinks that Airbnb causes unsafe living conditions then why isn't the city council saying anything about this national dorm-filling business operation? What does speaker Corey Johnson have to say about this?
12;30 yes yes yes yes yes. why?
Whoever is saying that Tishman Speyer and CW Compass Rock are the culprits who ruined on StuyTown is naive or they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Wake up.
It is public knowledge that prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer at Compass Rock, David Woodward was a Managing Partner at Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE BAM). BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT AKA TENANT ASSOCIATION PARTNER COURTESY OF COUNCILMAN GARODNICK
Compass Rock was founded in partnership with Fortress Investment Group. Around the same time or shortly after Compass Rock is formed by Fortress Investment Group, the Stuyvesant Town Tenant Association partnered with Brookfield Asset Management. CW Compass Rock David Woodward is straight out of Brookfield Asset Management, the Stuyvesant Town Tenant Association's partner. Brookfield, CW Compass Rock, Fortress Investment Group, David Woodward, all working together to the same goal.
https://www.compassrockre.com/david-woodward
Serious request, of anyone who is on facebook and is a member of the TA group.
I do not utilize facebook--
Would someone PLEASE post a request on that TA page for a testing of water quality, any time but preferably after it rains/snows and there's runoff, I assume, perhaps from the pipes backing up--
For many years there is a noticeable stench/nasty taste to the water, right after it rains. It has happened consistently, every time it rains, for years and years. There's no way this is my imagination--it's always the same, sort of a musty olive smell. Today when I washed my hands it also made my hands sting.
TA members--if you want to do something useful, how bout a testing the water here? There's no way this is within EPA safety limits. I don't know what this chemical is, but it's been present in our water for many, many years now.
I know for a fact that Wilbur Ross was considering buying the property. This is the guy who considers viewing the American bombing of Syria "after-dinner entertainment."
Is there something especially evil about real estate moguls? Something that makes them have zero conscience? I sometimes wonder.
Interesting to me how the next door neighbors who moved in over a year ago are still in place after the others all turned over after a year. Confirmed my belief that they are city subsidized. The tenants appeared to be linked to an international church group and did not appear to be professionals who could afford an over 3 grand a month apartment. I know that Blackstone has deals with the city and other institutions to move subsidized tenants in.
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/multifamily/blackstone-owned-stuytowns-new-relationship-with-jetty-reflects-the-future-of-property-management-83592
Why not? Just make it very simple and no (or little) questions asked. Not like those old days!
As a matter of fact, let us get rid of all the "rules".... And how many of those rules are enforced? Make it easy for PS and just get rid of the rules. Let's have a new Stuy Town.
It is interesting how the cheerleaders need to thank our landlord for rights that they, the cheerleaders, actually have. They do not need to thank, but they think that the thanks are obligatory or otherwise they will be homeless.
5:11
I’m not saying they should ask old school questions, but rather they go that route. There are plenty of questions they could ask pertaining to the property today that would weed out non-residents.
As for Jetty, it’s just another option for students to get in here. For those who don’t have a qualified guarantor, you use Jetty. So now we will see additional students moving in here who otherwise would not have.
Don’t get me wrong, Jetty can be very useful for people whose parents don’t qualify to guarantee or who are just starting a new job and don’t meet the income requirements. Unfortunately it will just be used here to squeeze more students into the already small number of vacancies.
As a matter of fact, let us get rid of all the "rules".... And how many of those rules are enforced? Make it easy for PS and just get rid of the rules. Let's have a new Stuy Town."
Spot on. NO rules are enforced when you have a landlord who does not follow the rules and laws that which they are supposed to adhere. The overblown inflated affordable housing numbers saved is the tip of the iceberg in the lawlessness of the deal.
STR- Look closely at your 1099 interest statement from JP Morgan- Your NOT getting
a check this year! Evidently nobody looked into my previous post. I don't know WHY I even bother to inform all of you.
If you want to contact the TA, there are other ways than their facebook page.
http://www.stpcvta.org/contact_us
I am not a Facebook person, but if memory serves me correctly, Facebook outlawed using an alias as an account name. Why don't you report Peter Stuyvesant to Facebook and they will ask him to prove it is his real name or kill the account.
What are the symptoms of mold - sneezing and ?
What is a wet wall?
The subsidizng is real and first hand fact in PCV. Is this illegal and reason you are posting it? Curious as our building clearly similar.
Sage Intelligence Group went after a female landlord running illegal hotels in her buildings while hiding behind an llc is nothing to brag about. According to the Sage Intelligence Group it is run by three law enforcement males with resumes that should be able to take on a corporate landlord but they do not take on the corporate landlords because the llc the corporate landlords hide behind have investors who are funding these intelligence firms. The small business owner female landlord is in the wrong but taking her down is a walk in the park for intelligence firms. Sage brags they took down Tyco CEO. Let's see you have the guts to take on the hotels run by BPP LLC.
That is pathetic that they can't even attract retailers to lease here so Mt Sinai who is one of the biggest investors in the property took the 20th street retail space and they have a ribbon cutting.
"It is interesting how the cheerleaders need to thank our landlord for rights that they, the cheerleaders, actually have. They do not need to thank, but they think that the thanks are obligatory or otherwise they will be homeless."
STR, I don't think the cheerleaders are afraid of being homeless. I think they are afraid of being seen (and admitting to themselves) that they are fools for paying top dollar to live here. Some of the cheerleaders have ties to the RE industry and it could be that they get some "incentive" from Management to promote living here.
Ron Conway Jetty can do whatever they want even to the detriment of our safety by placing bodies in apartments no matter what type of person they are. Ron Conway gives so much money to Bill de Blasio he has carte blanche in New York City to do whatever he wants that will make him richer. Gird your loins, greed is alive and kicking.
>>STR- Look closely at your 1099 interest statement from JP Morgan- Your NOT getting
a check this year! Evidently nobody looked into my previous post.<<
Damn! There goes my cup of coffee from Gracefully.... No, make that Lenz's, as the coffee there is cheaper.
2 + 2 = 4
The TA has achieved no results for tenants, that is true. That is true since this happened:
Tishman Speyer and BlackRock defaulted on the mortgage unscathed. Then Brookfield immediately put a man, David Woodward, in a partnership with Fortress and a the same time Brookfield Asset Management put another man, Mitch Rudin, in a partnership with the TA.
1. Brookfield Asset Management David Woodward
2. Fortress Investment Group Compass Rock CW
3. Brookfield Asset Management Mitch Rudin
4. The Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenant Association
Brookfield Asset Management David Woodward plus Fortress Investment group and Brookfield Asset Management Mitch Rudin plus the TA.
When 2 + 2 = 4 things add up that explain why and how the TA has achieved nothing for renting tenants.
January 24, 2018 at 11:51 AM
There is nothing funny about this STR. It's the principal of the thing, everything that
this Slumlord can find a way to save. Times your $5.00 check by how many apartments
do we have here? And what number do you come up with? It's NOT about the individual check.
I do not find any humor here, and don't mention to lighten up, please.
Oh, I hear you. But I still find it hard to "cash" a check that is worthy more as a piece of paper than the amount listed. That said, I am almost certain that any money withheld has to provide an interest check come tax time, as low as the amount can be. I will look into this and see what the change in this rule is.
Oh darn it! I used to buy a plain bagel and a bottle of water with my security interest check!!!
What will I do now??
OK, Good STR. This is my original post. Please check it out. I do not think we will getting any checks. I could wrong though. Just trying to help!
SOUND THE ALARMS STR!!!!
Guess what, got my 1099 from JP Morgan interest statement. We are all not going to get a interest check anymore. They are keeping the whole thing now, because they are now entitled to keep 1 percent of your rent security deposit, effective 6/17. Check out RGB FACT SHEET# 9 Security Deposit. This is unbelievable!! You here this Danny Boy? TA?
January 22, 2018 at 11:01 AM
@ January 24, 2018 at 9:41 AM
"Sage Intelligence Group it is run by three law enforcement males with resumes that should be able to take on a corporate landlord but they do not take on the corporate landlords because the llc the corporate landlords hide behind have investors who are funding these intelligence firms ... The small business owner female landlord is in the wrong but taking her down is a walk in the park for intelligence firms. Sage brags they took down Tyco CEO. Let's see you have the guts to take on the hotels run by BPP LLC."
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Not suggesting Hotel lobby retain Sage Intelligence Group to publicly expose Blackstone complicity in rampant, illegal, unsafe PCVST hotel listings reserved by, at any given time, hundreds of unidentified, illegal hotel guests lodged in illegal, unsafe PCVST hotels.
Suggesting Blackstone, if it truly cared about PCVST resident safety, would retain private investigators like Sage conducting sting operations inside PCVST identifying illegal, unsafe PCVST hotels and prosecuting illegal PCVST hotel hosts converting residences into illegal, unsafe hotels churning, at any given time, hundreds of illegal, unidentified, transient, PCVST hotel guests.
Ridiculous. the TA does not respond to emails not do they answer the phone. I've never gotten a response when leaving a voicemail, either. there's no way to contact the TA, except this fictitious peter Stuyvesant alias, who's clearly monitoring the conversation carefully to make sure no one is overly critical of management.
those are some dumb comments on that page, incidentally. a lot of unpleasant younger commenters, and some naïve older commenters. this place is insanely overstaffed with "maintenance" people wandering around, doing nothing constructive. no one has 30 seconds to take down a Christmas sign? it's a month later. I'm not Adam rose but that was a reasonable comment.
To the comment "Not suggesting Hotel lobby retain Sage Intelligence Group to publicly expose Blackstone complicity in rampant, illegal, unsafe PCVST hotel listings reserved by, at any given time, hundreds of unidentified, illegal hotel guests lodged in illegal, unsafe PCVST hotels.
Suggesting Blackstone, if it truly cared about PCVST resident safety, would retain private investigators like Sage conducting sting operations inside PCVST identifying illegal, unsafe PCVST hotels and prosecuting illegal PCVST hotel hosts converting residences into illegal, unsafe hotels churning, at any given time, hundreds of illegal, unidentified, transient, PCVST hotel guests."
Is this a serious comment or a sarcastic comment? Tishman Speyer and BlackRock hired three private law firms with lawyers and their private investigators and a Private Investigator firm a la Sage and maybe even Sage to go after tenants in PCVST. It has been all over the news since Tishman Speyer BlackRock bought the property.
Does anyone know the name of the three law firms or the Private Investigator firm Tishman Speyer BlackRock said they hired?
Some people are REAL idots.
WOW! They are cutting back on rent interest checks? Even though small to the individual, that adds up to quite a penny. Get it?
This blog does a terrific job at getting the truth out about the unsanitary conditions, the mattresses, the recycling areas, all things that are easily remedied that one has to wonder if the unlivable conditions are being done on purpose.
Ahhh… I see Peter Stuyvesant changed their requirements to gain access to their page as a member/commenter. Not surprising considering that people on this blog, and I'm sure there were others, called them out on their process to become a member. You would have to be an idiot to become friends with someone on Facebook that you have no clue who they are! I guess there are about 630 idiots living on this property, as that is the number of friends that Peter Stuyvesant has.
Aside from the fact that nobody on the TA that hides behind the Peter Stuyvesant alias needs to know my business, it is a group that continues to prove themselves to be untrustworthy.
Management are the ones running the illegal hotels here. That is why they built the amenities for a Concierge and a Welcome Center.
the interest is probably less than $1.00 so I wouldn't worry about it.
The next time I see an AirB and B renter on our floor I will notify the Sage Intelligence Group have them follow up on the apt. I wonder what Security would do if they were notified.
This is unbelievable unless it happens in the most corrupt state in the country. Only in the stinking rotten corrupt cauldron of New York can a criminal plead guilty to corrupt acts with a politician and the politician is not prosecuted.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/de-blasio%E2%80%99s-corruption-shadow-15687.html
Tishman Speyer BlackRock already did that in 2008 when they hired three law firms and a private investigator resulting in thousands of false golub notices harassing innocent tenants. No lawsuit was filed by the TA about the harassment.
The management has had law firms and private investigators working on the property since Tishman Speyer BlackRock bought it. Haven't you seen them? They are all over the place. But they are not going after the Airbnb hotels. They are going after rent stabilized tenants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/nyregion/27stuyvesant.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=64EEA685291910B8A7009209BD7BEAF6&gwt=pay
It is a common practice by landlords in the East Village to use private investigators to terrorize rent stabilized tenants.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-ex-cop-accused-harassing-tenants-rent-stabilized-housing-article-1.1879716
Other neighborhood notorious landlords used private investigators to harass innocent tenants in the same way along with a long list of additional criminal acts.
No person should have to spend a single minute of their life defending themselves against baseless, deliberately harassing accusations where at stake is the person's house and home, the very foundation of their existence but New York protection laws are weakened and unenforced while laws enabling predatory landlords are strengthened and enforced thanks to politicians with familial vested interest in real estate development.
East Village Harassment
https://patch.com/new-york/east-village/slumlord-steve-croman-pay-8-million-harassed-tenants
"Their attorneys were well aware of the story that came out, and I think... that their clients [have] got to understand now that this is a matter of really serious public interest," Tyrrell said.
"This is part of a pattern not only across the East Village but every borough. Whatever tactics they are trying to use to intimidate and harass low-income tenants, they just gotta know, people pay attention to this and care deeply about these stories."
http://gothamist.com/2017/10/20/bad_landlord_east_village.php
The Blackstone deal at the same price as the Tishman Speyer BlackRock deal that city hall, city council and tenant association made with Blackstone Ivanhoe Cambridge covered up the high debt-to-income ratio CBRE and MetLife finagled. The 2015 deal protects the landlord, protects the Speyer family, the Fink family and all their investors while protecting zero of the renting tenants and their families. MetLife revenue was up $3 billion for the year of their sale to Tishman Speyer Blackrock ST Owner Limited Partners. An amount that was not supported by the revenue of the property unless the harassing tactics and illegally increased rents prevailed eg Roberts among other illegal increase tactics.
The city council and city hall had a choice to either do right by the residents and the law or cover up the predatory and illegal overpriced sale of the property by MetLife and CBRE to protect the wealth of the developers. They chose to protect the windfall $3B profit to MetLife.
MetLife should be forced to forfeit the $3 billion overpriced profit they reaped, with CBRE forfeiting their commission and Fortress Compass Rock CW forfeiting their $677 million dollar fee they made from this sham. The property market value was always between $1.8B to maybe $2.4B and not this $5.4B sham.
These private investigators have been running sting operations for the landlord since Tishman bought the place!!
It has been all over the news how they use private investigators to run sting operations targeting rent stabilized tenants. You obviously have not been targeted by the harassment machine but thousands of tenants have.
Sage offices are in mega-money laundering Miami and New York where construction of hotel condos is flooding the market thanks to corrupt developers and their hired intelligence firms of corrupt ex cops who pursue private interests in lieu of public safety.
These intelligence firms are nothing more then hired current and ex-cop thugs attacking private citizens to help corporations increase profits and they and their industry of corporate thugs in private public law enforcement are giving the good cops a bad reputation. They are attacking the very citizens they are supposed to protect just because their corporate employers wants to take down those citizens and entire communities to enrich the few corporate shareholders, llc, limited partners. Quality of life is getting better and better for the corporate shareholders when quality of life on top of safety and well being is getting worse and worse for citizens.
It is an abuse of power, an abuse of law enforcement that is unfairly giving all the good cops a very bad name. NYPD ties to these firms is a big mistake for the guys in blue and a betrayal for the good cops who are trying to do their job.
The truth about these "intelligence firms" like K2 Kroll Teneo Sage Intelligence A J Melino is being exposed by the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the intelligence firms he hired to harass women into submission and threaten journalists into silence. They are creeps and thugs who went after women to protect a predator. They are the same firms hired by predatory real estate developers and corrupt headline-loving politicians.
These intelligence firms are hired thugs with badges harassing rent stabilized tenants.
With their fondness to harass women for Harvey Weinstein it is a likelihood they are targeting women for the real estate developers too.
They are disgusting creeps abusing the power of their badges, harassing women for powerful, wealthy private interests. It does not get anymore disgusting then that.
yes mold and?
Regarding "wet wall:"
It is precisely that: a wall or portion of wall which is wet due to a leak. The building material begins to rot and can cause the growth of mold, the formation of mildew.
Mold allergy symptoms: many. Itching of skin (neck, chest back; other locations); itchy, swollen, puffy eyes; runny nose and sneezing. I've read that a whole host of other symptoms can appear such as fatigue and memory loss. I would guess that symptoms would differ from person to person.
Reporting hotels to Sage or anyone will not do a darn thing.
It may work outside of hers, but not so in Stuyvesant Town where the landlord and the tenant association covered up an illegal hotel operation in a tenant association's board member's building at 280 First Avenue instead of using it as an example to all other hotels in Peter Cooper Village and in Stuyvesant Town. That says it all!
The Hotel Association of New York City allowed Airbnb to operate in Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town to create an excuse for kicking out Peter Cooper Village tenants so the Hotel Industry, the Developers including Brookfield TA Partners can build a condo conversion plus hotel. Of course the Hotel Industry would make themselves look like heroes keeping citizens safe from the evil illegal hotels when actually the facts are that Airbnb investors are also investor in Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town hotel & condo development.
The tenant association board member who lives at 280 First Avenue has a lot of explaining to do to the community.
What did she spend her time on all the years she achieved no results for tenants here?
Why didn't she achieve any results on stopping the illegal Airbnb hotels here?
They hired costly PR, got another board member a NYTimes article pretending to denounce Airbnb in 2012 while she allowed illegal hotels in her own building to run scot-free and we all relentlessly complained about the suitcase toting travelers. They tourists enter at 16th Street by the hoards.
It is obvious now that we all know the tenant association and their law firm pursued a case against tenants here while at the same the tenant association law firm Paul Weiss hypocritically and or fraudulently defended Airbnb against the Attorney General's case and promoted Airbnb as a "protector of affordable housing".
The message is clear. The landlord, the tenant association board, the tenant association law firm Paul Weiss are all for illegal hotel operations in Peter Cooper Village and will use the illegal hotel stings to target rent stabilized tenants who are innocent as a tool to increase the number of condo buyers for their condo conversion. The illegal hotels are in the market rate apartments that are part of the condo conversion, leased to tenants who long ago moved out and are replaced with revolving doors of guests and not in the rent stabilized apartments.
There is a renovated apartment upstairs that is a dorm after the stabilized tenants moved out or died. The kids said they are subletting. The market rate apartments are being subletted to dorms and run as hotels. Obviously no tourist or student would stay in an un-renovated apartment. Something is up with the market rate leases.
January 25, 2018 at 3:29 PM
Noooooo! My interest is $5.24. AND ALL OF IT IS BEING KEPT BY MANAGEMENT BECAUSE OF FEES!
C r i m i n a l ! They are entitled to 1% of your deposit. I researched it at RGB website.
8:07
I posted a few days ago with concrete links regarding the TA, which included their documented failures and questionable corruption. There is no refuting what I posted, just the usual silence in their end.
Then we get to a post like yours... and while I can definitely see it as being true, I unfortunately need to take it with a grain of salt because it lacks any concrete proof. They seem to do a good job of keeping their shady relationships with PR firms and Paul Weiss under wraps, but if the things you are saying is true, they will eventually come to light. But for now I need more concrete evidence....
Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And think of all the great things we would do
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
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Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
It is true that the private investigators are bottom feeding characters that have no interest in truth or justice. They are fixers who will do whatever it takes to whoever is the target just so long as the private investigators keep getting paid by corporate landlords. They will do anything for anyone who pays them no matter how grotesque the task or employer.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies
These people are responsible for the wall street housing crisis predatory deregulation that led to the StuyTown MetLife Tishman Speyer dorm hotels.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-family-ties-new-state-operations-director-article-1.2977174
New York Daily News news
Citigroup Goldman Sachs HUD DHCR
"ALBANY The father of Gov. Cuomo’s new state operations director once served with the governor in President Bill Clinton’s administration. Cuomo recently named James (Jamie) Rubin, who held several other positions in the administration, to the powerful post that overseas all state agencies. Rubin’s father is Robert Rubin, who began in the Clinton administration in 1993 and served as treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999. He was said to be among those who pushed for the deregulation of Wall Street during his time with Clinton. Cuomo was Clinton’s secretary of housing and urban development from 1997 to 2001. Rubin, a former co-chairman at Goldman Sachs, held a top role at Citigroup after departing Washington."
"In May 2015, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the appointment of James (Jamie) Rubin as Commissioner of NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the agency charged with carrying out the Governor’s $1 billion House NY plan and financing the development and preservation of affordable housing statewide. HCR’s portfolio includes issuing billions of dollars in bonds, providing grants, loans and bonding authority to local municipalities, and awarding low income housing tax credits and mortgages for thousands of low- and moderate-income homebuyers. In New York City and adjacent counties, HCR also oversees rent regulation and works on behalf of tenants facing landlord harassment or rent overcharges. "
DHCR was subpoenaed by the feds in 2016 but nothing came of it yet. Bharara was axed before he could do anything.
http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/State-affordable-housing-agency-subpoenaed-in-9189793.php
"How about that: The Albany corruption probes may expose abuse of state affordable-housing funds.
Two years ago, an audit by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that the state Division of Homes and Community Renewal had granted $10 million to six projects its own staff had deemed “infeasible” — meaning seriously impractical to pull off. Oops: DHCR’s rules banned the funding of “infeasible” applications."
https://nypost.com/2016/06/19/a-new-angle-on-the-new-yorks-corruption-scandals/
Don't count on DHCR until they clean house.
There are a lot of long-winded conspiracy theorists on this blog and I think they are doing a disservice to STR and readers. They are making this blog look nutsy.
I think I have mold in my kitchen and bathroom. I have all the symptoms of being allergic to it. I always feel so much better when I go outside!
Is there anybody who I can ask to come and inspect and remedy this situation, if it is mold?
For the record, I don't think the TA has joined Blackstone in any measure to drive out tenants, nor are they AIRbnb advocates. I just think they are incompetent and not willing to fight.
"For the record, I don't think the TA has joined Blackstone in any measure to drive out tenants, nor are they AIRbnb advocates. I just think they are incompetent and not willing to fight."
I believe you are right, STR. The TA is just a bunch of schmoozers and political sycophants, not criminals.
I agree 12:44 and STR. Some of the conspiracy theories against the TA are ridiculous. The TA is incompetent and unwilling to act, but some of these posts lack any merit whatsoever.
Yes, they have shady relationships with politicians, law firms, and PR firms, but nobody knows how far things actually stretch. For starters I would like to know where the Roberts money went as well as the $50k from Dan over the past two years. If the things you claim in your posts is true, than we just need to follow the money.
Sage Intelligence Group has office in New York and in Miami, two of the biggest real estate money laundering cities in the country who have had explosive hotel condo tower construction courtesy of the politicians who pretended rage against Airbnb when they all, Berlin Rosen, Paul Weiss, DeBlasio Capalino & Co promoted and protected Airbnb.
The rage is really against rent stabilized tenants who are in the way of untold riches from a luxury condo hotel conversion. Most infamous is the rage by the Deputy Mayor Glen and Mayor DeBlasio who dubiously ended talks with Airbnb after taking money from the Hotel Association of New York City when they suspected a double cross.
Airbnb, the State AG, The City Hall, the City Council, the Condo Converting TA Brookfield, the landlord, Hotel Association of New York City are all invested in developing Peter Cooper Village into a condo hotel tower with a yacht dock.
Show us one headline from a airbnb hotel shut down in Peter Cooper Village or in Stuyvesant Town in the past ten years. Otherwise the conspiracy theories are conspiracy facts.
The hotels operate here. Not one has ever been shut down. Not a single one.
That is not a conspiracy theory. That is fact. C'est la vie
The July 2015 Bait and Switch in StuyTown undercover sting was a big deal.
Who are Jerry and Rob Speyer's "intelligent" cracker jack private dicks and 3 law firms who missed all of the hotels advertised in Peter Cooper Village while running the Bait and Switch undercover sting in Stuy Town?
The Hotel Association of New York City never has and will not go after illegal hotels in Peter Cooper Village or in Stuyvesant Town. A lot of hotels advertised on airBNB but not one is investigated.
Here private dick undercover stings are used to push out rent stabilized tenants while keeping hotels in operation in luxury apartments
Thousands of tenants put through hell with golub notices with no help.
Huge numbers of falsely accused tenants harassed, undercover stings by three law firms and private dicks at the same time not a single advertised hotel gets shut down by the private dicks and law firm. A lot of illegal hotels operate in P C V. That would have been the easiest take-down with big headlines if they wanted to.
The explanation for not shutting a single airBNB hotels lies with the shell company members in ST Owner LP and BPP St Owner LLC who are the same investors in airbnb as are investors in developing here.
The last P C V and S T undercover Bait and Switch in July 2015 failed because rent stabilized tenants targeted are not running hotels
The sting attracted tourists with renovated luxury accommodations then told the tourist the apartment is not ready for a day and put them up in an older apartment.
The tourists complain on the internet for undercovers to use as evidence in serious charges against rent stabilized tenants after TA testifies in city council hearing that hotels are run by rent stabilized tenants who fell on hard times instead of telling the truth that all of the hotels are in market rate overpriced luxury apartments.
Fact is all advertised hotels run in market rate luxury apartments and not older apartments.
The hotel guest said she was told the luxury hotel was not ready and her family was placed for a day in an older apartment in a sting to implicate rent stabilized tenants of running hotels so they can kick out the older tenants and renovate apartments to get more money.
The hotel guest was part of the undercover sting and the internet post was to create false evidence.
The July vacation bait and switch August VRBO reviews post was to be "discovered" by genius Intelligence private dick and law firms using expert detective work.
Laughably the Bait and Switch review is written to say "beware owner operated listings" so the landlord is not implicated.
It was a big deal undercover sting operation by private dicks and law firms to kick out innocent rent stabilized tenants.
This hotel uses multiple apartments in P C V and S T because they placed the guests in 2 apartments during their stay a market rate renovated and an older one so management has to know.
The Bait and Switch evidence publicly posted on the internet for ready-made criminal charges in a ready-made highly publicized take-down designed by PR firms, private investigator firms, law firms, and condo developers
The actual July 2015 illegal hotel operator was never investigated even with the Bait and Switch which it is fraud to do Bait and Switch in business.
Rent stabilized tenants would never recover from the business fraud label so there goes any future income. Those people are pushed out of home and their future is gone. It is evil.
That business fraud label was publicized by Rob Speyer who accused rent stabilized tenants as gaming the system in the infamous NY Times article "Tenants Roiled".
Whatever happened to the rent stabilized tenants they targeted, who knows but the Tishman Speyer BlackRock hired undercover private investigators VRBO Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town sting operators are clearly the real criminals gaming the system and committing frauds.
What happens when it is exposed that the federal programs were exploited in the deal on top of the inflated affordable housing numbers?
https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-be04d9e55235
Yup, I understand.
As for "connections," most companies have them. Take this place and Blackstone. A lot of the people working in Management have worked here before, for CW and possibly further. That's the way it is with companies.
I usually don't get the Town & Village newspaper, so has there been any mention of some resident (or visitor) jumping off the roof of a Stuy Town building and ultimately dying? This would seem the big news of the week.
I really thought this was going to be a nice place to live the photos look nice in the location wasn’t too bad I’ll be at very far from my normal train I have a very nice furniture some of it costing thousands of dollars per piece this is not to brag but I pat here this to complain about the smoking. I’m not sure where it’s coming from but I know it’s not very PC but it could be downstairs it could be next-door could be all of the above but my furniture is pretty much ruined. As well as the carpets but I was so happy to put down when I moved in. I don’t mind smoking outside inside is just pretty darn gross. This is no luxury life living at all and pretty much Disgusting between the smells the constant barrage of noise and for the price tag will be out of here STAT
"I usually don't get the Town & Village newspaper, so has there been any mention of some resident (or visitor) jumping off the roof of a Stuy Town building and ultimately dying? This would seem the big news of the week."
STR, maybe out of respect for the man's family they are not publicizing the tragedy. It is a very, very hard thing for a family to bear when a member commits suicide and the publicity can make that pain all the more searing. I know they have reported suicides in the past, but the last one was when a young man went missing and there was an alert out for him. Maybe the family in this more recent tragedy has requested privacy. Unless it's happened in your family, you have no idea of just how painful it is to bear.
I understand, but it is strange if no mention is made. The name of the family or where the person lived does not have to be given. As it stands, unless there was some news, only Management benefits, just as they didn't want that potential rape and murder mentioned either. And I was at the PS office when the officer tried not to give that information out to new tenants.
The news of the jump was in the Post, Daily News, NY1, ABC, and NBC, so T&V absolutely should have a small write up on it. They don’t have to go into any detail whatsoever, but to not say a thing makes it look like management told them to squash the story.
Opening up the business records on ownership, the LLC, the LP, and the TA books is the only way to having a decent quality of life without fear, fraud and filth. God bless the Journalists, Media Press for the hard work they do to get to the truth and transparency.
Judge rejects secrecy in suit over Kushner-owned apartments
By JOSH GERSTEIN
01/26/2018 07:17 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/01/26/jared-kushner-apartments-maryland-secrecy-373592
Bredar, an appointee of President Barack Obama, ordered the limited liability companies in question to file details of their ownership and members on the public record within two weeks.
The class-action suit, filed in a local court in Baltimore in September, argues that Westminster Management and related firms charged excessive or improper late fees in violation of Maryland law. Some tenants were illegally threatened with eviction as a result of the fee-charging practices, the suit alleges.
The firms transferred the case to federal court on the grounds that some of the defendants are residents of other states. Bredar, however, said clarifying that issue requires him to know more about how the companies are structured.
A federal judge has rejected a bid by companies connected to President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner to keep secret details in a pending lawsuit claiming that Maryland apartment complexes owned or managed by Kushner's companies collected illegal fees from tenants.
Two Kushner-linked firms caught up in the suit wanted to file details on their ownership structure with the court under seal, but in a ruling Friday U.S. District Court Judge James Bredar sided with five news organizations who urged that the businesses be required to provide those details on the public record.
I think everyone agrees that at a minimum, the TA needs to open their books/meeting minutes. The fact they haven’t is quite alarming.... what’s to hide if you’re doing things “by the books?”
This and the StuyTown deal he made are two very good reasons not to trust his word on anything
https://nypost.com/2018/01/26/this-is-why-de-blasio-cant-be-trusted/
Re mold and mildew problems:
Try to ascertain WHERE precisely, the smell may be coming from. Examine inside closets and cabinets and look closely at the walls and ceilings in the bathroom, kitchen, and nearby closets.
Whether or not you see any stains of moisture, see any leaks, or can even pinpoint the source of the odor, CALL RESIDENT SERVICES and report the problem. Call until they send a plumber or other workman to investigate. If they don't at first find the source of the odor, keep calling for as many days, weeks or months at it takes. Be firm.
No kidding. You cannot trust him.
What the felon bought from Mayor de Blasio
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/felon-bought-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.3779729
Bill de Blasio's broken ethical compass
Harry Siegel
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, January 27, 2018, 5:00 PM
The restaurateur desperately needed a new lease with the city. So he says that he kicked tens of thousands of dollars to the political operation of “Official #2,” and in turn received the special treatment he’d paid that public official to provide him.
“The defendant, together with others, did knowingly and willfully conspire to corruptly give, offer and agree to give things of value to Official #2, an agent of the City . . . to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and deprive the public of its intangible rights of honest services of Official #2 and other City offices through bribery and kickbacks.”
That defendant being Harendra Singh, who pleaded guilty in Brooklyn last October to six counts, including conspiracy, bribery and honest services wire fraud related to his campaign contributions to that “agent of the City,” Bill de Blasio, who coasted to reelection a year later.
That’s in part because Singh’s plea was only unsealed this week, in relation to the upcoming trial of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, and in part because Manhattan federal prosecutors last March reluctantly let the mayor off of the legal hook, citing “the high burden of proof” created by a disastrous Supreme Court decision the previous year.
Now the guy who gave the bribe is a felon. The guy who took it is our mayor.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill-de-blasio-broken-ethical-compass-article-1.3781883
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-donor-pleaded-guilty-attempted-bribery-charges-article-1.3776954
It made the news in India
New York Mayor's bribe attempt: Indian-American restaurateur pleads guilty
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/new-york-mayor-s-bribe-attempt-indian-american-restaurateur-pleads-guilty/533965.html
For the tenant with the mold problem this guy may be a good lawyer to hire:
The lawyer for the couple, Phil Chronakis of Budd Larner, P.C., said, “Lennar seems to think it can get away with business as usual — by advertising luxury — while selling garbage — in Hudson County. Wrong. I’m going to have a Hudson County jury look at what Lennar did — those jurors will be outraged as should all of us.”
“Lennar’s reaction to this lawsuit is the poster child for corporate greed and toxic indifference,” he told Page Six of the case’s potential move out of court. “My clients are displaced from the home they bought from Lennar. They’re going to fight to the end. Frankly, I don’t care if we’re in litigation, arbitration, or in Antarctica — I will expose Lennar, and defeat Lennar, wherever they try to hide.”
Beyond that, we hear the unit — which the owners purchased for $2 million — is now alleged to contain black mold.
In a lawsuit obtained by Page Six and filed by Shiloh Holdings against Lennar Sales Corporation, the couple — who wish to remain anonymous — claim that when they moved into the apartment at 1200 Avenue at Port Imperial in March, they found “bottles filled with urine, containers containing remnants of partially eaten food, construction debris and other garbage” in the walls of the unit’s bathroom.
Further investigation also revealed urine-soaked insulation in the master bedroom.
In a lawsuit obtained by Page Six and filed by Shiloh Holdings against Lennar Sales Corporation, the couple — who wish to remain anonymous — claim that when they moved into the apartment at 1200 Avenue at Port Imperial in March, they found “bottles filled with urine, containers containing remnants of partially eaten food, construction debris and other garbage” in the walls of the unit’s bathroom.
Further investigation also revealed urine-soaked insulation in the master bedroom.
https://pagesix.com/2017/10/30/bottles-of-urine-found-in-walls-of-luxury-nj-condo/
https://pagesix.com/2018/01/25/urine-soaked-luxury-nj-condo-now-accused-of-having-rats/?link=TD_nypost_articles.7c7e0f416376f79f&utm_source=nypost_articles.7c7e0f416376f79f&utm_campaign=circular&utm_medium=PAGESIX
“In Manhattan, neighborhoods like Morningside Heights, Stuyvesant Town, and Lincoln Square were all ideal if renters were looking for big discounts; in Brooklyn the same could be said about some areas around Prospect Park; and parts of Northwest Queens. ‘While a flood of new construction has been the main driver of the rental market slowdown we’ve witnessed over the last year, the fourth quarter’s rent cuts are more far-reaching than in years past,’ said StreetEasy Senior Economist Grant Long.”
Yeah hard no. When any decent Market paying tenant has asked this LL to reduce slightly or freeze renewal rent there is always a hard NO. No discount and overpaying to live with shit AC in summer, shit heat in winter 1 mile from subway. Not to mention the constant construction and sound problems from all sides.
wrong about the VRBO not shut. Former owner Tishman shut that shit down real fast :1000% confirmed.
This thread is important on many points.
Like the fact the Tenant Association Board hides behind anonymous "Peter Stuyvesant" while censoring Tenant opinions, limiting Tenant's freedom of speech. At the same time the TA Board President slammed forums for giving tenants freedom of speech with a safe place to anonymously express truths.
Fact: TA Board President takes credit for blessing and admits pride the TA Board's actions led to the Blackstone deal. That is a big admission, big deal, big reason for years of zero results for Tenants. The TA result they worked toward is the Blackstone deal
"(And let’s not forget that it was the TA whose years-long work with top legal and financial advisers led to the Blackstone takeover.)"
Fact: TA President wrote a letter praising a newspaper that sounds like Management's press vehicle with glaring omissions of news and not a journalistic, independent newspaper.
Fact: TA President is grateful for MetLife Tishman Speyer CW Compass Rock Rose Associates Management staff for keeping us safe but truth is crime is up and unreported.
Fact: TA President is grateful for MetLife Tishman Speyer CW Compass Rock Rose Associates Management Staff keeping us warm when truth is tenants post problems with heat.
Fact: TA President is grateful for MetLife Tishman Speyer CW Compass Rock Rose Associates Management Staff, Councilman while omits any mention of gratitude for 30,000 Tenants the TA says they represent by being the largest TA in the country. If it were not for the StuyTown Tenants, the TA would not be the largest and would not exist. The absence of gratitude for the Tenants shocks.
Fact: TA President's letter of gratitude is absent any and all gratitude for Tenants. The very ones giving credence to the TA publicizing itself as largest in the country thus an expectation they could take on the country's largest predatory landlord.
The very ones who the TA is supposed to represent, be partnered with, be with in an alliance.
The TA President wrote an angry rant of gratitude-for-themselves in their success leading to Blackstone and at the same time that slapped down Tenants.
The TA letter, lawyers and PR firms makes it hard to believe the TA Board is inept or unwilling.
The December 1, 2016 letter is deliberately, carefully written to glorify themselves while truthfully expressing how the Tenant Association Board feels about Management and about Tenants. All gratitude for Management. No gratitude for Tenants.
The letter makes it easy to believe Tenants who have gotten zero results in past years are neither on the agenda or in grateful hearts of the current Tenant Association.
Letters to the Editor, Dec. 1 | Town & Village
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December 1, 2016
Letters to the Editor, Dec. 1
Why I’m grateful this holiday season
I thought it would be appropriate, given the time of year, to express some gratitude and optimism during these discordant times. The Stuy Town/Peter Cooper community has been through a lot and now our country, too, is facing some tough times.
As I take inventory of areas for thanks, I choose to look locally and at our great and diverse community. We have to be ever mindful that our ST/PCV community is actually a small and complex city, with unforeseen challenges.
I am grateful that we have finally achieved some real stability in Blackstone as our still-newish owner and for their important choice to have key staff living among us, sharing our quality of life. I am grateful for management’s clear voice and steady hand thus far. Grateful for their choice to keep long-serving staff like Bill M. and Fred K., who keep us safe and to Kathleen K. and Tom F. who keep us warm and our homes and buildings functional. For Rick H. and the new members of his team who are
making real efforts to care for our community.
This thread is important on many points. CONTINUED PART 2
December 1, 2016
Letters to the Editor, Dec. 1
Why I’m grateful this holiday season
I am grateful for a strong and wary tenants association, which is practical and pragmatic in its efforts to protect our rights and our quality of life. (And let’s not forget that it was the TA whose years-long work with top legal and financial advisers led to the Blackstone takeover.) Grateful, too, for its outstanding leaders and volunteers who deserve much but get too little recognition.
I am grateful we have our own outstanding hometown City Council member, Dan G. who, for more than ten years has tirelessly defended our community and whose accomplishments are too numerous to list in this letter.
I am grateful for this newspaper and its well-reported, well-written coverage of our own and surrounding communities and for those neighbor-citizens like Barbara Z. who write tough letters to it and have the courage to stand behind their words and sign their names. Unsigned letters, like anonymous blogs and fake news posts are a great disservice to civil discourse. These are nameless voices that should go unheard.
I am still grateful for my two very good friends (a married couple, I’ll say no more) who despite my urgent pleas, voted for the controversial winner of the presidential race. That we can still find common ground to unite on despite our stark differences. For when we stop listening to one another that is when the real trouble starts.
We must always learn by listening to our opponents and keeping an open mind. We must not demonize them for a different view, no matter how bitter. I am grateful to my mentors and teachers who taught me these things.
John Marsh, PCV"
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After years of accomplishing zero results for Tenants, on December 1, 2016 the Tenant Association President published a letter proudly stating the Tenant Association actions of the previous years led to the Blackstone deal.
"(And let’s not forget that it was the TA whose years-long work with top legal and financial advisers led to the Blackstone takeover.)"
This begs the question, what did the Tenant Association Board think was going to happen in December 2016 or January 2017 that would justify the priorities and actions of the prior years?
(And let’s not forget that it was the TA whose years-long work with top legal and financial advisers led to the Blackstone takeover.)
>>Why I’m grateful this holiday season<<
This has to be a joke, a cruel one, but nevertheless a joke.
Do you think the commentor is joking? Or Town & Village was joking or the TA was joking when they published it?
https://town-village.com/2016/12/01/letters-to-the-editor-dec-1-2/
That link to the T&V article is legit, and written by former TA President John Marsh. The fact that he was grateful for Fred K., the PI attorney brought in by Tishman Speyer to throw out RS tenants, is sickening. This editorial does change my feelings about the TA from being inept to being corrupt. The TA needs to open its books from the time John Marsh became TA President through today. Enough is enough!
Marsh must be joking. You know, sometime malicious wit is not immediately recognized.
Seriously, if there was any proof still needed that the TA is over and done with, it is there, in Marsh's letter. If I didn't know better (and I do, unfortunately), I would be stunned.
Marsh wasn't joking. He is creepy. Always pushing his favorite politicians and gets quite annoyed if challenged. He is creepy and crawly.
STR I can't believe you thought Marsh's letter was a joke! It was anything but a joke. He was deadly serious.
Oh, I know what the story is. LOL. It's just too precious not to assume differently. At least for a while.
STOP SMOKING
Here are the law firms that represented each of the parties in the Roberts case.
As REBNY and their firm Meister Seelig & Fein LLP are a party in the historic case where tenants were getting robbed left and right by greedy predators it is disappointing and damning to see the politicians at the REBNY annual party.
As the City of New York is one of the firms it brings about a conflict of interest since the City of New York is a vested interest in the sale price of the property as evident by the Blackstone negotiations and subsequent press conference. It explains why in the settlement (in lieu of a court ordered verdict) the rents were not rolled back to their legal amount or rightfully frozen at $0 for punitive damages from the fraudulent pocketing of J-51. The inflated numbers by De Blasio to preserve affordable housing in the Blackstone deal further shows how far the City of New York will go to keep the sale price at $5.4 billion for the Speyer family and BlackRock while glorifying themselves.
Court of Appeals of New York.
Amy L. ROBERTS et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Respondents, v. TISHMAN SPEYER PROPERTIES, L.P., et al., Appellants.
Decided: October 22, 2009
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York City (Jay B. Kasner, Scott D. Musoff, Jonathan Frank and Christopher R. Gette of counsel),
and
Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, LLP (Sherwin Belkin and Magda Cruz of counsel), for Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P., and another, appellants.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York City (Alan Mansfield, Daniel J. Ansell and Steven Kirkpatrick of counsel), for Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company and another, appellants.
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, New York City (Alexander H. Schmidt, Daniel W. Krasner and Eric B. Levine of counsel), and Bernstein Liebhard LLP (Ronald J. Aranoff, Stanley Bernstein and Christian Siebott of counsel) for respondents.
Legal Aid Society, Harlem Community Law Office, New York City (Steven Banks and Alan Canner of counsel), for Legal Aid Society, amicus curiae.
Meister Seelig & Fein LLP, New York City (Stephen B. Meister and Thomas L. Friedman of counsel), for Real Estate Board of New York, amicus curiae.
Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph, New York City (David S. Hershey-Webb, William J. Gribben and Ronald S. Languedoc of counsel), for New York State Tenants & Neighbors Coalition, Inc. and another, amici curiae.
Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, EC, New York City (Robert D. Goldstein, Paul N. Gruber and David B. Cabrera of counsel), for Community Housing Improvement Program, Inc. and another, amici curiae.
Elizabeth R. Fine, General Counsel, Council of the City of New York, New York City (Lauren G. Axelrod and Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., of counsel), for Maria del Carmen Arroyo and others, amici curiae.
Rosenberg & Estis, PC, New York City (Jeffrey Turkel and Nicholas Kamillatos of counsel), for Rent Stabilization Association of NYC, Inc., amicus curiae.
Jimmy Yan, General Counsel, Office of the Manhattan Borough President, New York City, for Office of the Manhattan Borough President, amicus curiae.
Harvey Epstein, New York City, for Urban Justice Center, amicus curiae.
Collins Dobkin & Miller, LLP, New York City (Seth A. Miller of counsel), for Mitchell-Lama Residents Coalition, amicus curiae.
Here is the opinion of the appellate court on the Roberts Ruling. Why after getting the lower court and appellate court victories did Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town settle instead of enforcing the ruling of the courts?
"In this lawsuit, nine plaintiff tenants of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, two adjoining Manhattan apartment complexes comprising 110 buildings and occupying roughly 80 acres between 14th and 23rd Streets along the East River (the properties or the apartment complexes) contend that defendants Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P., and PCV ST Owner LP collectively, PCV/ST), and Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company and Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company (collectively, MetLife), the current and former owners of the properties, respectively, were not entitled to take advantage of the luxury decontrol provisions of the Rent Stabilization Law (RSL) 1 while simultaneously receiving tax incentive benefits under the City of New York's J-51 program.
We agree."
caselaw.findlaw.com/ny-court-of-appeals/1501805.html
The New York Times asks the question of the century that makes the Tammany criminals of the last century look tame.
2 Donors Plead Guilty, but the Mayor Is Not Charged. Why?
By WILLIAM NEUMAN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUMJAN. 26, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/nyregion/2-donors-plead-guilty-but-the-mayor-is-not-charged-why.html
A major donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded guilty to using campaign contributions as bribes to buy better treatment at City Hall — and yet the mayor, who took the money and aided the donor, was not charged with a crime.
Another donor pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud that included making political contributions in exchange of official action — and again, no charges for the mayor.
The outcome has led some, including the WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer, to an obvious question.
“How can someone be guilty of giving you a bribe and you not be guilty of taking it?” Mr. Lehrer asked Mr. de Blasio on Friday.
It’s abundantly clear,” the mayor said. But it wasn’t."
The Mayor goes onto his usual self-defense to name call and disparage his criminal cohorts as being worse than he is but as they say It Take Two to Tango and Tango they did in Pay to Play schemes from which they both, Bill DeBlasio and Harendra Singh enriched themselves. Bill DeBlasio crime and cover-up MO is laid out in this article in black and white.
“This man did a lot of bad things in a lot of places,” Mr. de Blasio said of Harendra Singh, a restaurateur who pleaded guilty to bribing the mayor. “I’m someone who never did, never would be involved in such an effort.”
But he and his aide are more than involved in the effort, they personally masterminded it.
..."That included a July 2015 meeting in which Emma Wolfe, a top aide to Mr. de Blasio, met with Mr. Singh to negotiate a settlement, which contained more favorable terms than he had previously been offered.
“Nothing that he described as having happened, happened, period,” Mr. de Blasio said on WNYC. But the meeting did happen, and so did City Hall’s other efforts on behalf of Mr. Singh, which have emerged.
Anthony M. LaPinta, Mr. Singh’s lawyer, disputed the mayor’s assertion. “Mr. Singh pleaded guilty to his crimes because he is, in fact, guilty of those crimes,” Mr. LaPinta said in a emailed statement."
Lies about Pay to Play
Lies about inflated affordable housing numbers in Blackstone deal
Lies Lies Lies
Name-calling
Delusional
Bill DeBlasio's pay to play partner is a bad person while Bill DeBlasio is someone who would never do bad things. But Bill DeBlasio did. His aide did. Plus the crimes could not have been carried out at all without Bill DeBlasio and his aide who stole from citizens to carry out the crimes so the City Admin are worse criminals then the restaurateur partner.
The letter by the TA Board President, the admission that under his leadership the TA was tirelessly working toward the Blackstone deal, and a look at Roberts Law Firms shows the reason the Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town Tenant Association has not won an MCI challenge among other seriously questionable acts.
The Tenant Association law firm Collins Dobkin & Miller, LLP, New York City was working toward the Blackstone deal to have revenue support the $5.4 billion price at the same time Collins Dobkin & Miller, LLP, New York City (Seth A. Miller of counsel), for Mitchell-Lama Residents Coalition, amicus curiae for the Roberts case.
Collins Dobkin & Miller, LLP, New York City helped rent stabilized tenants outside of Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town
The Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village tenants rents were supposed to be rolled back to the last legal rent stabilized amount just like the rest of the city but they were not because the TA and the TA law firms were working toward the Blackstone take-over at the $5.4 billion price condo conversion with Brookfield which requires 85% buyers to 15% renters. The TA, the TA law firms, Blackstone and Brookfield want the apartments filled with condos and only 15% renters.
Read David E Frazer's respectfully written, easy to understand explanation of the Roberts case excerpt and link to full explanation.
It is in stark contrast in content to what Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village tenants got compared to the rest of the city and in stark contrast in condescending tone to the explanation that the Councilman Garodnick gave to the community:
David E Frazer
Excerpt
Perhaps the most vexing issue for tenants coming out of the Roberts case was how to calculate the legal rents given what, in some cases, was a decade or more of market rents. The Appellate Division, First Department, just resolved that issue in 72A Realty Aaaoc. v. Lucas, a resounding victory for tenants.
In Lucas, the court ruled that the legal rent should be based on the last legal regulated rent under rent stabilization. The import of this ruling is that tenants can now rely on rents charged long before the usual four-year statute of limitations. This is going to mean much lower rents and much larger overcharge awards for tenants of J-51 buildings.
http://www.davidfrazerlaw.com/appellate-court-delivers-big-victory-for-rent-stabilized-tenants-in-buildings-with-j-51-tax-abatements/
Councilman Garodnick's "plain language" settlement for dummies explanation:
http://www.garodnick.com/press-release/roberts-settlement-plain-language
Bottomline the 22,000 Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village tenants in the Roberts case, many of whom were pushed out of their homes, are owed money.
The TA law firm operates with egregious conflicts of interest giving better benefits to tenants outside of Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village to support the TA Board Brookfield Partnership efforts towards the Blackstone take-over.
That letter to the editor is amazing drivel. Thankful for what TA and as for Garodnick, he has been invisible for the past year after he turned us over to greedy Blackstone.
I think John Marsh is harmless and well-meaning, but he's a pushover for those glib politicians who use him and the TA.
Roberts tenants deserve to have their rents rolled back to the last legal rent stabilized amount with reimbursement and damages for it not being done in the first place when the verdict came down.
I absolutely disagree that John marsh is harmless and well-meaning. His tenure as TA president began the downfall of the organization and the beginning of political influence over the group. His Facebook posts are usually very heavily politicized, and Peter Stuyvesant let’s them through. He pushes his agenda, and the people who disagree with him are met with an attitude of superiority. He started this power hungry political TA, so no, he is not well-meaning and harmless.
The smoking of cigarettes, pipes, cigars and pot will waft into your apartment from pipes, heating and open windows. Its tenement house living not to mention disgustingly dirty.
Fact that our unit was turned over by a man who spent 45 years here yet we are paying 4.5 X his rent. You cannot fix this and Roberts ship has sailed. Unfair? illegal? you betcha.
The TA should be thoroughly investigated and, at best certain board members prosecuted, at least the whole sleazy operation put out of business. Maybe then we could form a new TA, but even without a TA at all we would be a lot better off without this shady bunch of opportunists "representing" us.
The stupidly infamous 1 Vanderbilt mess got messier following in the footsteps of Kushner and EB-5 financing selling American citizenship in exchange for $
In the first quarter of 2018, Robert Schiffer, a managing director at SL Green Realty, will do something he’s never done before: fly to China to raise EB-5 financing — more than $200 million, to be exact.
https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/behind-the-complicated-financing-of-one-vanderbilt/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=popular_widget&utm_campaign=posts_popular
BLACKSTONE OWNER STEVE SCHWARZMAN AND CASINO OWNER STEVE WYNN AND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAD A $100,000 PER PERSON FUNDRAISER A FEW WEEKS AGO
(And let’s not forget that it was the TA whose years-long work with top legal and financial advisers led to the Blackstone takeover.)
"Inside a $100,000-per-person Trump fundraiser: Chicken, asparagus and 20 minutes of talk
By Josh Dawsey December 7, 2017
When Trump returned to his home city, he zipped up Park Avenue to huddle with a number of former business associates and friends at the triplex of Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman. About two dozen of them paid $100,000 each to hear Trump talk for about 20 minutes — or about $5,000 a minute.
Schwarzman sat to his right, with New York builder and close friend Richard LeFrak on his left. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was nearby. So was presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway.
The president told the donors — which included gas magnate John Hess, billionaire Richard Lauder, sugar magnate Pepe Fanjul and casino executive Steve Wynn — all about his tax plan and how it would help the middle class. The crowd was filled with hedge fund managers and other titans that will see their taxes cut.
It was “a little ironic,” one person with direct knowledge of the event said."
>>BLACKSTONE OWNER STEVE SCHWARZMAN AND CASINO OWNER STEVE WYNN AND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAD A $100,000 PER PERSON FUNDRAISER A FEW WEEKS AGO<<
Seems to me that the previous president also have big-moneyed fundraisers, too. As of now, they all do it, whatever political party they belong to.
Roberts tenants deserve to have their rents rolled back to the last legal rent stabilized amount with reimbursement and damages for it not being done in the first place when the verdict came down.
How do we make this happen^^^
January 30, 2018 at 5:47 AM
File a lawsuit against the parties and conniving law firms in the case including the greedy corrupt City of New York and greedy criminal REBNY!
Developers are buying and selling New York City properties between and to themselves all in the same offshore shell games. The same members of the LLC and LP are buying and selling to themselves propping the prices up to reap windfalls, to launder money, and in schemes to wipe out permanent livability housing to turn them into short term hotel housing.
Here is how they sell to themselves using offshore accounts just like the offshore accounts StuyTown checks are deposited into.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article69251392.html
Everyone of us in a Roberts apartment's rent charge is fraudulent so maybe a class action lawsuit for the current rent charges being fraudulent. The court ruled the rents were to be rolled back to the last legal rent charged. If they were not and we are in apartments that could have had the roll back but did not then we file a lawsuit against everyone who denied us the court ordered rent roll back and we get it rolled back now.
"How do we make this happen"
This war is over, NYS Supreme Court ruled on Roberts, game over.
LOL To torment who?
Stuy Town Reporter said...
Oh, I know what the story is. LOL. It's just too precious not to assume differently. At least for a while.
January 28, 2018 at 6:48 PM
As much as I hate the fact that I am not a billionaire, I must say that my federal taxes went down considerably in my most recent paycheck. Seems somethings going right in DC for once.
1 Vanderbilt aka Corruption Tower!! The tower corrupt Dan Garodnick built!
"And let’s not forget that it was the TA whose years-long work with top legal and financial advisers led to the Blackstone takeover."
OK
What is newsworthy is the company one keeps, President Trump Hedge Fund Schwarzman Casino Wynn
$100,000 for a fundraiser may not be newsworthy but a loss of revenue, income and chair positions for one of the three birds of a feather who flock together is newsworthy, and who all three have big money deals with the Chinese. Steve Wynn's September 2014 casino deal is under review and the evidence is damning.
Moral of the story, in real estate there is no such thing as a done deal. Every deal is un-doable even the billion dollar riverfront real estate deals by these three. Trump name removed from upper west side luxury apartments and Trump Soho. Wynn is under review and investigation for Boston casino on Mystic River. As the saying goes, stay tuned because maybe this time the good guys will win and the bad guys will not.
Trumps name is removed see video here, the guy being interviewed is straightforward and funny at the end:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/16/news/companies/trump-place-name-change/index.html
THE LOSSES SO FAR
"It seems we’ve reached a point in our collective American history where being a prolific sexual predator finally has a cost, and a literal one at that. Casino mogul and Republican National Committee Finance Chair Steve Wynn is taking a financial beating in the wake of the Wall Street Journal story detailing dozens of sexual misconduct accusations against him. His company Wynn Resorts has since lost $3.5 billion in revenue, and shares in the company have dropped another 9%. Wynn Resorts is still valued at $17 billion (because how real is patriarchy, am I right?) but clearly, the public is kicking Wynn, 76, where it hurts: his wallet.
Wynn’s net worth has taken a serious hit as well. He lost about $412 million in his own personal holdings in his company since Friday. His stake is now estimated to be around $2 billion. In light of the allegations, which Wynn has denied, he has stepped down as the Republican National Committee Finance Chair but remains CEO of Wynn Resorts. Here’s hoping 45 is taking notes. You can keep your hotels, Don. Just give us our country back, thanks!"
THE DAMNING EVIDENCE
The Wall Street Journal reported that dozens of Wynn’s employees claimed there was sexual misconduct and assault by the casino mogul over decades. In one case, the paper reported, Wynn paid a manicurist a $7.5 million settlement after forcing her to have sex.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s pre-approval review for the Everett site included dispatching state troopers and financial investigators to comb Wynn’s background. Its failure to uncover the cases is raising questions about the credibility of the process.
“If I were making the rules, I’d halt building that casino now,” said John Ribeiro, former chairman of the Repeal the Casino Deal. “We need to re-evaluate if we want to put a Wynn casino here in Everett or not ... or if we want to get another person to run it.”
“This is the status quo for casinos. We’ve talked about this from the beginning. Casinos themselves rely on exploiting people,” Ribeiro said. “Really what we’ve done here in Massachusetts is brought Las Vegas values to Main Street.”
In the Vegas casino industry, Wynn is seen as the standard for success, and his developments are viewed as among the most prominent symbols of Sin City.
“He’s the No. 1 guy in the industry — he’s the top,” said William Thompson, a Las Vegas casino expert. “Nothing like this has ever touched Wynn. I’m shocked and disappointed.”
The news hit Wynn Resorts hard yesterday, with the company’s stock plummeting more than 10 points late into the day.
Wynn — who turns 76 today — is the chairman and chief executive of Wynn Resorts and has an estimated worth of $3.5 billion that tumbled yesterday.
He has also famously expanded beyond Las Vegas, opening a resort in Macau in 2010, with a second resort in the Chinese offshore gaming jurisdiction following six years later.
Lawsuit against Blackstone, Ivanhoe Cambridge for the illegal rent charges today and MetLife, CB Richard Ellis, New York City, Elizabeth R. Fine, General Counsel, Council of the City of New York, New York City, Lauren G. Axelrod, Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., then Mayor Mike Bloomberg, State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), City Department of Housing Preservation and Development for causing the rent charged today to be higher then legally allowed.
Roberts tenants deserve to have their rents rolled back to the last legal rent stabilized amount with reimbursement and damages for it not being done in the first place when the verdict came down.
This is the very first statement on this stupid blog I've ever wholeheartedly agreed with.
How can this happen?
>>To torment who?<<
Who said anything about tormenting?
Looks like NOBODY is getting a rent interest check this year. HA HA!!!
8:31
Yet here you are, commenting on this stupid blog.
I wish they'd put the fucking heat on!!! NYCHA a la Blackstone.
What this says about the character of the person is shocking.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/lawmaker-files-jared-kushner-act-limit-tenant-arrests-52740726
Got my interest yearly rent check yesterday....It said ZERO!
December 2016 the StuyTown Tenant Association and StuyTown-NYMF (A Blackstone Company) StuyTown Property Services do a bullshit public relations stunt with the President of the largest tenant association in the country StuyTown Tenant Association publicizing a letter in the press, for the community and neighborhood to read, to convince the public and immortalize how the StuyTown Tenant Association and named StuyTown-NYMF (A Blackstone Company) StuyTown Property Services employees are astronomically great and have been working together all along to lead to the Blackstone take-over.
December 2017 the StuyTown Tenant Association and StuyTown-NYMF (A Blackstone Company) StuyTown Property Services who work together and use the same public relations firm Berlin Rosen, did another bullshit pubic relations stunt with a brochure to the tenants, a suspicious city-wide ranking of best landlord, and a whole host of scattered press to make themselves look likeable even lovable, this time for the whole of New York City to read.
After a year of just being themselves, the StuyTown Tenant Association and StuyTown-NYMF (A Blackstone Company) StuyTown Property Services cannot look likeable without public relations stunts because their actions, crime stats, and poor results for tenants quality of life speak louder than their words. At this rate they will have to keep doing the overpriced, public relations stunts every year or more expanding beyond the community, beyond New York City, to cover New York state or the whole country next year with another public relations stunt.
The hotel housing business is next where the money is to be made as in the Blackstone and Starwood Hotel merger that this community is now a member of and our apartments are hotels thanks to corrupt politicians passing a 2010 law to turn the New York housing assets into 30 day corporate and entertainment short term rentals along with the entire country's housing assets stolen from the middle class during the deliberate financial crisis, housing crisis, mortgage crisis.
In August 2017 Blackstone-Starwood Merger Creates Largest Rental Home Company In U.S. which this property is a part of thanks to all who tirelessly worked led to achieve the Blackstone takeover. As the article lays out circumstances were orchestrated so individuals cannot afford to own their own homes. That is the biggest disgrace in the history of this country that after 240 years of democracy, in 2016 Blackstone took over 30,000 homes that could have belonged to 30,000 individual Americans.
The hedge funds (admit Wall Street and corruption) killed the American Dream of home ownership and are sucking the life out of Americans while hoarding all the housing assets. This gives a whole new perspective to the StuyTown deal Goldman Sachs alumni Deputy Mayor Glen and her boss Mayor deBlasio orchestrated with the StuyTown Tenant Association, BPP ST Owner LLC, Canadian Pension Fund Ivanhoe Cambridge, StuyTown-NYMF (A Blackstone Company) and Blackstone Asset Management.
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/10/542663692/blackstone-starwood-merger-creates-largest-rental-home-company-in-u-s
@January 31, 2018 at 8:31 AM " Anonymous Anonymous said...
Roberts tenants deserve to have their rents rolled back to the last legal rent stabilized amount with reimbursement and damages for it not being done in the first place when the verdict came down."
So I seem to remember that the Roberts class were all people who willingly rented "market rate" apartments without having to wait on Met's waiting list. Then they turned around and sued on a technicality over J51's, effectively scoring a Rent Stabilized apartment when they really leased one at Market Rate. Why would they deserve to pay the "last legal rent stabilized amount", and not what the Roberts Settlement entitled them to ? Or are they simply entitled to scam the rest of us who are living with 50 year old appliances ?
What up with the mold alert guy? And?
Is this guy a crook or what?
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-donors-chosen-build-luxury-towers-nycha-land-article-1.3779939
THIS place has too much Effed up problems are there other parts of the city that have a 2 bedroom under $4,000 as this one not worth it i would like others to know post if this is ok to do so here Just so dang fed up with the problems this property giving us.
Anyone get an interest check for our rent deposit from management yet? I'm still waiting, even though it isn't much. I saw previous mention of this.
When something is up 75% is warrants a review. When that something is foreign investors parking money in real estate it deserves an investigation.
https://therealdeal.com/la/2018/01/29/foreign-investors-pour-money-into-miami-la-and-manhattan-luxury-homes/
Maryland democrat Bilal Ali is serving the public and protecting constituents, in this case from greedy aggressive acts by landlords using prison sentences to utterly destroy tenants lives. By comparison, New York democrat's position on Kushner as a landlord on the Lower East Side is a disgrace. de Blasio friendship with one of the country's famously worst landlords is exposed in these shocking emails.
Maryland lawmakers are making laws protecting tenants from Kushner or in other words in Maryland the democrats are doing their job and getting national attention for doing it well.
NY lawmakers did nothing to protect tenants during predatory years following the housing crash. The number of press articles they got for themselves compared to the number of protection laws NY passed is a disgrace that shows how NY politician's greed fuels the state's ranking as most corrupt in the country. A review of NY laws passed shows that politicians help landlords, developers, REBNY and not at all tenants, communities.
Tons of news articles expose the close Kushner de Blasio relationship with this one summing it up. The Mayor fawns all over Kushner while trying desperately to become the leader of the nation's coalition of Mayors in another of his many attempts for national stage presence he does not deserve.
The Mayor curried favor with developer-landlords begging for tasks like making introductions to help the worst landlords to expand their power, an introduction from a self-serving politician.
de Blasio says he has a lot of respect for a developer-landlord known for doing bad things while in Maryland this lawmaker is epitomizes good public service, doing right by the people he serves by sponsoring the "Jared Kushner Act," a bill preventing state judges from issuing arrest warrants for tenants.
Del. Bilal Ali, a Baltimore Democrat, said Wednesday he named the bill after President Donald Trump's son-in-law because Kushner's apartment management company was the state's most aggressive landlord in obtaining civil arrest warrants against tenants.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/lawmaker-files-jared-kushner-act-limit-tenant-arrests-52740726
New Yorkers have to put up with this for years.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2017/11/21/de-blasio-and-his-administration-had-a-warm-relationship-with-kushner-emails-show-121665
"The emails, spanning from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first year in office in 2014 through the spring of 2017, show de Blasio’s occasionally fawning overtures to Jared Kushner and others in the Trump Organization
He added: “Finally, whenever you have a moment for a drink or a cup of coffee, I'd love to spend a little time with you. I can only imagine how tough your schedule has become, and I'm happy to accommodate whatever time and place works for you. Much appreciated — Bill.”
Kushner replied with equal politeness: “We had a great holiday — I hope you did as well. Can you please connect me with Mick and I will make this happen? Would be a pleasure to get together. Is there someone I should work with to schedule?” Kushner said.
The meeting between Trump and the U.S. Conference of Mayors did end up happening in December of 2016. A few weeks later, de Blasio publicly praised Kushner to reporters.
“About the person of Jared Kushner — I respect him a lot,” he said in early January. "I’ve known him for years and find him to be a very reasonable person," de Blasio said of the young real estate developer and former owner of the New York Observer.
“He’s certainly someone I’ve been talking to over these last weeks. He’s someone I intend to stay in touch with on behalf of the people of New York City. He’s someone who really cares about New York City and is someone that would be very helpful to us. So I’m certainly pleased he’ll be in that role,” de Blasio said. “And I can say clearly compared to many other people who've been named to other positions, I find him to be a lot more reasonable and a lot more moderate.”
I cannot believe how posters can say that the Associated staff is so pleasant. I had such a surly checkout person today. In the past she has just had an unpleasant look on her face but today she copped an attitude with me. First she kept insisting that I needed a twenty dollar purchase for the paper towels. OK but she repeated it. I knew I had that total. Then she insisted that I move my cart out the other way and come around. I told her twice that I always squeeze the cart through folded up. Then I watched her attitude with the next customer and she was sweet as sugar. I think they pick and choose there. The store is bad and dumpy enough without attitude from check out people.
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Another point to the commentator on Roberts is the precarious timing of the Roberts case as a point of leverage in the tenant bid instead of a lawsuit to get justice and that is why justice with the rent roll back never happened here even with the court victory.
If the Roberts case was filed before the sale to Tishman it could have kept the rents legal for renters and kept the price at fair market value for buyers. But the Roberts case was filed immediately after MetLife, CBRE, BlackRock and Tishman Speyer (MCBRETSBR) appeased, placated then denied the democratic elected officials their bid.
The vindictive decision to file Roberts after MCBRETSBR closed their deal ended up harming both the tenant buyers and the tenant renters. It was a massive failure of a negotiating tactic during the first sale and it cost the tenants the tenant bid. The Roberts case should have been filed before the 2006 MCBRETSBR arranged agreement was locked in because MetLife never intended to sell to the tenants and CBRE only sent booklets to the tenant bid to shut-up the elected officials they found to be an annoyance but not a real threat.
That is why MetLife went forward with the sale to MCBRETSBR and that is why the Roberts case was filed mere minutes after MCBRETSBR played the hand they always intended to get $3 billion over fair market price in the sale. Sounds a lot like money laundering.
The commentator post with the parties and law firms laid out alongside the timeline of the sale makes it look like the objective of the Roberts case was never to get tenants back their money but to use it as leverage in the property sale to condo conversion to get MetLife to sell to tenant bid.
Had the tenant bid been for benefit of ALL tenants, buyer and renter, they would have filed the Roberts suit before the MCBRETSBR closed and not after so as to keep the sale price at fair market value and the rents at legal amounts.
They did not do that.
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REBNY and their law firm Meister Seelig & Fein LLP must have been furious in 2007 at the filing, at the October 2009 Appellate decision, at all times in between and thereafter.
REBNY would have been doubly furious if and only if the elected officials did right by the renting tenants of the city and set up means for each and every renting tenant to receive their justified rent roll back or if the elected officials just went about their merry way leaving renting tenants on their own while gallivanting at the REBNY parties, ABNY forums, Partnership for New York events. But that would have required the then Mayor to do right by constituents instead of fattening his wallet.
The impact on all the other landlords citywide was not really publicized on how many tenants actually received the rent roll back from the citywide landlords J-51 greedy frauds or if any committee was ever put in place by public service elected officials to make sure each and every one of the rent stabilized tenants got their justified rent roll back as would have been the righteous act by electeds.
All efforts were made to protect the next tenant bid in StuyTown by denying all 22,000 Stuyvesant Town victims their rent roll back, some of which were in favor of the denial so long as it brought about a winning tenant bid for the property even at the $5.4 billion overpriced amount.
The timing, the parties and the law firms as laid out makes it look like the Tenant Association and Councilman were working toward the Blackstone take-over a lot longer than 5 years, were achieving results for the Blackstone take-over while achieving NO results for renters going back as far as at least 2006.
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On October 17, 2006, MetLife agreed to sell the complex to Tishman Speyer Properties and the real estate arm of BlackRock for $5.4 billion. The sale was expected to close by November 15, 2006, according to documents which CB Richard Ellis, a commercial real estate broker representing MetLife, sent to bidders. MetLife hired a broker, who started registering bidders, and intended to name a winner by November 2006. The sale had drawn interest from dozens of prospective buyers, including New York's top real estate families, pension funds, international investment banks and investors from Dubai, according to the New York Times, citing real estate executives.[28]
New York City Council member Daniel Garodnick, a lifelong resident of Peter Cooper Village, attempted to organize tenants and investors to place a buyout bid on the complex. Initially, MetLife deemed the tenants group an unqualified bidder, but, after being pressured by elected officials, the company reversed itself, and distributed bid books to the tenant group; bids were to have been submitted by October 5, 2006.[29] Both the tenants' bid and one by Apollo Group fell short of Tishman Speyer's offer, though the latter came within $100 million of Speyer's $5.4 billion.[30]
On January 22, 2007, a class action lawsuit was filed against MetLife, Tishman Speyer Properties, and their associates on behalf of the market rate tenants of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. The suit claimed that MetLife was improperly charging tenants "market rate" rents while at the same time receiving real estate tax benefits from the City of New York under the J-51 program, which requires property owners to maintain apartments as rent stabilized during the period in which they are receiving benefits. The lawsuit asked for a monetary award of between $215 million and $320 million in rent overcharges and damages. Furthermore, it called for the market rate apartments to revert to rent stabilization until the expiration of the J-51 benefit period, sometime after 2017.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_Town%E2%80%93Peter_Cooper_Village
You would think DeB would crack down on Blackstone for allowing this type of thing to happen so much in PCVST:
https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/airbnb-removed-13500-housing-units-nyc-report
Management simply looks the other way when it comes to AirBnB because it is SO obvious to all of us living here that there is a thriving industry of AirBnB here!
That means the Roberts case was never really about the landlord illegally pocketing J-51 in Stuy Town but it was about the egos of the politicians who were stabbed in the back by real estate developers when MetLife sold to Tishman Speyer and BlackRock instead of Garodnick using the lawsuit as pressure or a negotiating tactic to strong arm their way into Garodnick's version of the condo conversion. Tenants are never the priority with this guy.
There are some surly cashiers at Associated. Not many, but one or two. There is one who I always avoid because she has the surliest face, even though she's rather pretty. I don't know whether it's just me, but she looks at me with utmost contempt and I swear I have never said or done anything to piss her off!
No more interests checks!!! They keep it all now.
Honestly, I am a huge proponent of this blog, and a major opponent of both the TA and management, but some of these posts are just ridiculous. I’m referring to the really long posts that don’t ever seem to have a point and that dissuade people from taking this blog seriously.
There is so much going on here that is horribly wrong, and that should be our focus, not some long-winded conspiracy theories.
Anonymous said...
You would think DeB would crack down on Blackstone for allowing this type of thing to happen so much in PCVST:
https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/airbnb-removed-13500-housing-units-nyc-report
Management simply looks the other way when it comes to AirBnB because it is SO obvious to all of us living here that there is a thriving industry of AirBnB here!
February 2, 2018 at 3:54 PM
That is true!
The article lays out how landlords are making money from Airbnb so forget any chance of DeB doing anything about it. Pro-landlord, pro-developer DeB will never oppose Blackstone.
“Airbnb is much more like a new way for landlords to rent their apartments for more money.”
DeB is turning NYC into a big hotel stay for tourists hoping to capitalize on the next trend of tourism being the big money maker. Yes, by all means let's turn all the housing and all the cities around the world into generic tourist traps with apartment hotel luxury amenity charades, new stadiums for sports entertainment. Way to strip NYC of all dignity, personality and integrity DeB.
February 1, 2018 at 5:52 PM
Robert's tenants didn't have to wait on the Met list because there wasn't a list anymore.
Yes, James Capalino, the Mayor's very very close friend is a lobbyist for StuyTown landlord Blackstone. A look at who is getting rich from the Mayor's time in office includes Blackstone and James Capalino. It dies not include StuyTown tenants, well not all StuyTown tenants.
James F. Capalino & Associates, Inc.
Christopher Collins
James Capalino
Thomas Gray
Travis Terry
http://prtl-drprd-web.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Blackstone+Administrative+Services+Partnership+L.P.
Target: Economic Development Corporation, NYC (NYCEDC)
Subject: Non-procurement
$25,000.00
cool my 22 year old and her friend qualify for the lottery and a cheaper rental here, yet we do not. just a huge wow, clap clap.
This place is like a house of cards where nothing is at it seems. It looks one way from the outside and an entire different way from how it looks from the inside.
There are a lot of home business operations in our building but our riders say no business operations allowed in the apartments. The NYS DOS has a long list of LLC's registered in StuyTown.
One of them, along the same lines of the virtual doorman concierge service at 17 Stuyvesant Oval there is an LLC calling themselves U S Marshall LLC at 17 Stuyvesant Town Oval. This one is spelled with 2 "L's" while the real US Marshal is with one "L" and the real US Marshals are a public service entity. The real US Marshals are not a private corporation. 17 Stuyvesant Oval has a lot of llc private corporations but this one is registered with New York State since December 30, 2016.
Virtual concierge and virtual US Marshalls? Is this a joke too? The real U.S. Marshals are not jokesters. They are serious about their jobs and duties. The real U.S. Marshals are not Limited Liability Corporations, LLC's, private corporations.
US MARSHALL LLC is a business entity registered at New York State Department of State, with entity identifier is 5059949. The registration start date is December 30, 2016.
Entity Name US MARSHALL LLC
Department of State (DOS) ID 5059949
Jurisdiction NEW YORK
Initial DOS Filing Date 2016-12-30
Entity Type DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
County NEW YORK
DOS Process Name US MARSHALL LLC
DOS Process Address 17 Stuyvesant Oval
New York
New York 10009
Why New York State would allow that business name to be incorporated is unbelievable.
Also registered with NY State is a security guard training school for criminal matters with no mention of quality of life training matters which would explain the rise in quality of life problems but it does not answer the rise in crime in StuyTown like the hockey stick attack or the rape.
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
SECURITY GUARD PROGRAM - APPROVED SCHOOLS
DCJS APPROVED SECURITY GUARD TRAINING SCHOOLS
The below-listed security guard training schools are approved by the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS)
to conduct security guard training courses required by New York State General Business Law Article 7-A, section 89-n.
New York County
PCVST Housing Trng Ac
Firearms Training: No
2 Stuyvesant Oval
New York, NY 10009
Telephone: (212) 598-5265
Email: william.mcclellan@stuytown.com
Some people commented in the local newspaper about the local NYPD station ignoring StuyTown tenants reports, telling the StuyTown tenants to deal with the StuyTown Security only. Is that true? Is StuyTown without a public NYPD precinct?
You've been rather quiet lately, STR. Hope you are OK.
Okay, but very busy! Thanks for asking.
>>Honestly, I am a huge proponent of this blog, and a major opponent of both the TA and management, but some of these posts are just ridiculous. I’m referring to the really long posts that don’t ever seem to have a point and that dissuade people from taking this blog seriously.
There is so much going on here that is horribly wrong, and that should be our focus, not some long-winded conspiracy theories.<<
I'd have to research every post, which would take all of my time, I'm afraid. Some posts I will not let through, but others I can't unless I check everything.
>>Some people commented in the local newspaper about the local NYPD station ignoring StuyTown tenants reports, telling the StuyTown tenants to deal with the StuyTown Security only. Is that true? Is StuyTown without a public NYPD precinct?<<
Basically, it is true. Except for crime, the 13th is not interested. I used to make a point of going to the monthly neighborhood meeting at the 13th, but after the captain in charge of the meeting rolled his eyes and dismissed "Stuyvesant Town," I told myself not to waste time anymore. I believe he is gone, but the situation remains.
The long posts are all about the market rate apartments rents being high and ways to challenge it. If you are not a market rate tenant or if they bother you then do not read them.
I agree that those long-winded, multi-part conspiracy theory posts are a waste of time. I just scroll past them without reading. I don't think they belong on this blog, but that is STR's decision to make.
February 2, 2018 at 9:48 PM
That is correct, someone in management discovered that they are entitled to one percent of your security deposit. We should have never gotten in the first place all of these years. THEY are sooo sneaky!!!! Times that amount by all the apts here.
It fact-checked. The facts in the long winded posts check out. The links in the long winded posts support the facts. It is about the market rate rents and the market rate apartments. The conspiracy theory is actually conspiracy fact. The Roberts case at least in StuyTown was about negotiating leverage in the condo conversion. It was never to get the rents rolled back in StuyTown so they never did roll them back. If you are not market rate then it has no bearing or meaning to you.
4:18, thanks for that info. Was the TA involved with not getting rents rolled back for the Roberts tenants?
I can't read all that stuff, my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be and my computer screen is small.
I am a “market rate” Roberts tenant, and most of this gibberish does not make sense. I’m an attorney, so don’t tell me otherwise. We’re Roberts tenants ultimately screwed? Yes, of course, but these posts don’t make any sense of the situation at hand.
Here’s an easy way to keep things much simpler:
The TA fought this and won one battle (the refunds, which they also benefited from), but ultimately lost the war (not getting rents rolled back). I fought them on this at the time, and they were content with the refunds, nothing more.
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