tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post3937593294271258276..comments2024-03-28T00:08:11.164-04:00Comments on The Stuyvesant Town Report: The Tenants Association: Worthless or Helpless?Stuy Town Reporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-83621245403414117762015-02-04T22:40:07.796-05:002015-02-04T22:40:07.796-05:00@ February 4, 2015 at 4:24 PM
"I still can&#...@ February 4, 2015 at 4:24 PM<br /><br />"I still can't get over the TA board hiring a REBNY attorney. I want my Robert's victory ruling back and all the apartments rolled back to pre-overcharge amount.<br /><br />http://therealdeal.com/blog/2009/03/16/rebny-hires-attorney-to-fight-pro-tenant-stuy-town-ruling/"<br /><br />Your link goes to REBNY attorney Meister Seelig & Fein LLP. Are you saying the TA retained this firm? If not, then what are you saying?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-31717604049679899822015-02-04T16:24:12.136-05:002015-02-04T16:24:12.136-05:00I still can't get over the TA board hiring a R...I still can't get over the TA board hiring a REBNY attorney. I want my Robert's victory ruling back and all the apartments rolled back to pre-overcharge amount.<br /><br />http://therealdeal.com/blog/2009/03/16/rebny-hires-attorney-to-fight-pro-tenant-stuy-town-ruling/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-55768223878554788202015-02-04T08:17:52.405-05:002015-02-04T08:17:52.405-05:00And exactly right - yes to lawsuits -- no to polit...And exactly right - yes to lawsuits -- no to political photo op rallies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-59457517211850621062015-02-04T08:16:19.500-05:002015-02-04T08:16:19.500-05:00Bears repeating
Blogger Stuy Town Reporter said....Bears repeating<br /><br /> Blogger Stuy Town Reporter said...<br /><br /> Speaking of Roberts, that's another scandal that Dan and the TA were complicit in. Yeah, I know that officially they had nothing to do with it, but the market-rate tenants were royally screwed by the lawyers under the watchful and guiding light of Dan and the TA.<br /><br /> February 1, 2015 at 12:08 PM<br /><br />Everything Dan takes under his watchful eye seems more and more like a condescending cover up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-87898449180170548422015-02-03T11:45:20.430-05:002015-02-03T11:45:20.430-05:008 11 and agreed. At this point, we'll just b...8 11 and agreed. At this point, we'll just buy a coop a few blocks over. Interest rates still low. Payments would be same as rent if not lower.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-1249383185417533052015-02-03T10:08:18.036-05:002015-02-03T10:08:18.036-05:00THAT IS SO TRUE February 2, 2015 at 10:20 PM!!!
...THAT IS SO TRUE February 2, 2015 at 10:20 PM!!!<br /><br /> Anonymous said...<br /><br /> Anyone else pick up on trolls attempting to hijack STR threads to distract attention away from Garodnick and TA malfeasance?<br /><br /> A constant stream of extraneous comments press various emotional hot button issues they hope will inflame Old RS against New RS generation warfare. Another phony theme repeatedly hyped is that only Brookfield can save us from imminent bulldozer apocalypse.<br /><br /> Garodnick and the TA need to divide and pit tenants against tenants. Don't be suckered into their false narratives. We are all victims of their Brookfield scam.<br /><br /> February 2, 2015 at 10:20 PMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-82636204813995034712015-02-03T03:18:29.985-05:002015-02-03T03:18:29.985-05:008:11 so right.
We are moving and there are a lot ...8:11 so right.<br /><br />We are moving and there are a lot of great apartments out there. We are looking for a 3 bedroom doorman, but these one bedrooms doorman are same price as PCVST and has much more to offer and the price just came down $500 per month. The photos are here<br />http://streeteasy.com/building/the-kingsley/1102<br /><br /> 400 East 70th Street #1102<br />↓ $4,000<br /><br /><br />Beautifully Furnished One Bedroom/One Bath in the wonderful Kingsley Condominium! This high-rise building includes: Full time 24-Hour Doorman, Concierge Services, Lounge, Fitness Room on 31st floor, Common Storage Room, Garage, Laundry on every floor. Apartment has South and West exposures of the City bringing in lots of Natural Light! Bedroom: Queen Size Bed, TV, Large Closet. Kitchen: Fully Equipped, Stainless Steel Appliances, Dishwasher, Microwave, Wine Rack. Living Room/Dining Room: Large Wrap Around Sofa, TV, Dining Table. Outdoor Space: Spacious Private Balcony, Table and Chairs. Apartment is in Mint Condition! Wood flooring throughout, large windows, great closet space. In the heart of the Upper East Side; Conveniently close to transportation, shopping, restaurants. ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED! Call/Text/Email me anytime to view this Wonderful Apartment! [less] <br /><br /><br /><br />400 East 70th Street #203<br />$3,150 for rent<br />3 rooms1 bed1 bath<br /><br />http://streeteasy.com/building/the-kingsley/203<br /><br />Separately, Paul Weiss does some work for Brookfield as I am sure the big disgusting-drooling law firm you mention does too 1:35. Maybe if the big drooling law firm joins REBNY the PCVST TA will hire them too.<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-03/weil-gotshal-tax-partner-sontag-joins-paul-weiss-in-n-y-<br /><br /><br /><br />Scott M. Sontag at Paul Weiss represents:<br />Brookfield Asset Management in the $866 million acquisition by BSREP Industrial, L.P. (a Brookfield fund) of Verde Realty, a Houston-based real estate investment trust focused on industrial distribution properties;<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-83197115252648100682015-02-02T22:20:52.471-05:002015-02-02T22:20:52.471-05:00Anyone else pick up on trolls attempting to hijack...Anyone else pick up on trolls attempting to hijack STR threads to distract attention away from Garodnick and TA malfeasance? <br /><br />A constant stream of extraneous comments press various emotional hot button issues they hope will inflame Old RS against New RS generation warfare. Another phony theme repeatedly hyped is that only Brookfield can save us from imminent bulldozer apocalypse. <br /><br />Garodnick and the TA need to divide and pit tenants against tenants. Don't be suckered into their false narratives. We are all victims of their Brookfield scam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-78339027083052928622015-02-02T13:35:05.357-05:002015-02-02T13:35:05.357-05:0011:24 PM: Paul Weiss doesn't represent Brookf...11:24 PM: Paul Weiss doesn't represent Brookfield. Another big law firm does and it is salivating to get a piece of the action when PCVST is sold. Absolutely drooling. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-46364266546861197372015-02-02T08:11:53.864-05:002015-02-02T08:11:53.864-05:00Why would a family who pays beyond $4k a month and...Why would a family who pays beyond $4k a month and always climbing, not buy a coop somewhere else? Dumb to thrown 50K at this landlord annually and then what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-72950490214351777852015-02-02T07:41:36.943-05:002015-02-02T07:41:36.943-05:00Are rallies still technically rallies if three peo...Are rallies still technically rallies if three people show up? That's why they're innefective. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-70556655624242675132015-02-01T23:30:20.403-05:002015-02-01T23:30:20.403-05:005:49pm: 1:39 pm here. If I wanted to buy, I cert...5:49pm: 1:39 pm here. If I wanted to buy, I certainly would not even consider buying here. I came in as a renter and prefer to remain a renter.<br />This place would be a money pit and a bottomless one, at that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-27977840210072043782015-02-01T23:25:55.706-05:002015-02-01T23:25:55.706-05:00The links
http://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/...The links<br /><br />http://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/scott-m-sontag.aspx<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-03/weil-gotshal-tax-partner-sontag-joins-paul-weiss-in-n-y-<br /><br />Tenants are getting screwed whether we rent or we buy. That is the deal the TA made.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-28958155522604891472015-02-01T23:24:17.180-05:002015-02-01T23:24:17.180-05:00There is NO ONE representing the best interest of ...There is NO ONE representing the best interest of Tenants in the purchase negotiations. <br /><br />Brookfield is a long time client of Paul Weiss. Paul Weiss is representing Brookfield making sure the best interests of Brookfield are met. That is why the construction and over development happened and the Rent Roll increased as Dan says increasing the Rent Roll is very attractive to buyers. Paul Weiss is representing Brookfield as the buyer and Brookfield wanted the office building, the rent increased with endless MCI charges, the apartments at market rate with 5000 dorms to churn it etc. Whether Tenants are buying or renting the deal is a bad one for Tenants and a good one for Brookfield. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-79410327398841470002015-02-01T23:07:55.137-05:002015-02-01T23:07:55.137-05:00Here is a little reality check on the state of the...Here is a little reality check on the state of the housing market after the banks played gambling games with people's homes including some facts from the 2013 "State of the Nation's Housing" report from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/27/us-usa-housing-renters-idUSBREA0Q1A220140127<br /><br />Home ownership is mostly done by the big hedge funds for investor purposes. People are no lo0nger buying homes or brainwashed into believing that is "the American dream" a myth perpetuated by real estate industry lobbyists and ad campaigns. The American dream is what people want to make of it and not for some greedy industry to tell you what your dream is. Home ownership is just not appealing to millions of American. That does not mean they are childish. It probably means they are not gong to be suckered into RE and Banker scams again after the housing crash (thank you Cuomo from your HUD days)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-9055745090440465692015-02-01T22:59:04.353-05:002015-02-01T22:59:04.353-05:00WOW 5:49 that is quite supercilious of you. Really...WOW 5:49 that is quite supercilious of you. Really you think renters are "in a child's role" -- is this all millions of renters in NYC or in the US or just the renters in PCVST? <br /><br />http://www.nmhc.org/Content.aspx?id=4708<br /><br />64% of renters are between ages of 20 - 64 with 30% of renters between age 45 to 64.<br /><br />It is condescending to think the 45 million renters in the US are in a perpetual "child's role" -- come on. That is such BS. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-72055321827373185932015-02-01T17:49:36.043-05:002015-02-01T17:49:36.043-05:001:39 why are you against taking a little responsib...1:39 why are you against taking a little responsibility for your future and not supporting ownership? Why so content to remain in a child's role while the negligent, absent parents reap all the profit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-88534018241016656112015-02-01T13:43:48.951-05:002015-02-01T13:43:48.951-05:00"As far as rallies and demonstrations go, the..."As far as rallies and demonstrations go, they are rather insignificant. The landlord just waits them out and carries on. What the landlord does NOT want are lawsuits. The TA should be involved with those and get the support of politicians like Garodnick and de Blasio (now that Bloomberg is gone). And please, no victories like Roberts!"<br /><br />Be careful what you wish for, STR. If the TA ever institutes any law suits it will probably be AGAINST the tenants, not the landlord. Just look at who their new counsel is!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-15804608832164293362015-02-01T13:39:38.986-05:002015-02-01T13:39:38.986-05:00I am one of the Pissants who showed up for the ral...I am one of the Pissants who showed up for the rally against the rent hikes and I really don't know why I bothered. I am a long-term RS tenant and was not affected by the mid-lease rent increases. I showed up because I was so disgusted with this blood-sucking move on the part of "Management." <br /><br />As for vitriol, 10:32 AM, you seem to have buckets of it to spare and, as far as I'm concerned, as a longtime member of the TA, they might as well shut up shop and go away because they ceased to be effective or even interested in us tenants since the day DG arrived on scene. They are wannabe owners, not a tenants association anymore. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-7403626594100322242015-02-01T13:36:28.055-05:002015-02-01T13:36:28.055-05:00Exactly right. We do not need faux heros to save u...Exactly right. We do not need faux heros to save us. We need politicians to do their public service jobs and stop using their office for business deals for their buddies and themselves.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-82170902612237264222015-02-01T12:19:18.496-05:002015-02-01T12:19:18.496-05:00So true STR on all three points.
Lawsuits -- not...So true STR on all three points. <br /><br />Lawsuits -- not photo op rallies! <br /><br />btw the photo op rally on the mid-term increases was to set the pols up to look like heros in shutting down something that never should have been allowed as pointed out by the AG. the plan was to get a mass amount of tenants crying out so a pol could sweep down and be a hero. but we didn't show up for the photo op rally because we know the pol was complicit with their watchful eyes on the robbery of the ruling.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-67174288974295685142015-02-01T12:08:20.537-05:002015-02-01T12:08:20.537-05:00Speaking of Roberts, that's another scandal th...Speaking of Roberts, that's another scandal that Dan and the TA were complicit in. Yeah, I know that officially they had nothing to do with it, but the market-rate tenants were royally screwed by the lawyers under the watchful and guiding light of Dan and the TA.Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-15558030625695298552015-02-01T12:03:09.818-05:002015-02-01T12:03:09.818-05:00As far as rallies and demonstrations go, they are ...As far as rallies and demonstrations go, they are rather insignificant. The landlord just waits them out and carries on. What the landlord does NOT want are lawsuits. The TA should be involved with those and get the support of politicians like Garodnick and de Blasio (now that Bloomberg is gone). And please, no victories like Roberts!Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-65554942046534516252015-02-01T11:59:12.542-05:002015-02-01T11:59:12.542-05:00Actually, THIS pissant showed up at all the rallie...Actually, THIS pissant showed up at all the rallies, excepting those bus tours to Albany. I was also there at the failed demonstrations in front/back of the leasing office. What have these rallies accomplished, btw?Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-5121200795898375712015-02-01T10:32:47.319-05:002015-02-01T10:32:47.319-05:00Such nasty vitriol for the TA as usual. If I were ...Such nasty vitriol for the TA as usual. If I were them I'd close up shop just to spite you nasty monsters. Where was your community spirit during the rent hike rallies the TA organized FOR YOU at which none of you pissants showed up? You found the time to bore us with your excuses in the comments: 'I was busy. I had to go to work. General Hospital was on.' Etc. etc. Why the hell should anyone volunteer anything for you? Get off your self righteous, lazy, spoiled, me, me, me asses and be the change you want to see. Otherwise crawl back in the sewer where you belong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com