Co-op / Condo News: Top Energy-Saving Firms, Airbnb Loss, Ghostbusters Bldg.

Read all the latest co-op /condo news for buyers, sellers and board members in Habitat's weekly Monday News Roundup. Also included: Permanent archival links: If a link ever goes dead, you'll still be able to read the backup at WebCitation.org.

Co-op / Condo Buying, Selling, Living...

• "2 Units Destroyed in Staten Island Condo Fire" (WCBS / 2)

• "[Councilmember Daniel] Dromm Joins Partnership on Smoke-Free Housing" (The Western Queens Gazette)

• "Board Approved: Nailing the Co-op Board Interview" by Holly Lynch (BrickUnderground.com)

• "Take Two: Yoko Ono Finds a Buyer for her $8.9 M. Downing Street Co-op" by Chris Pomorski (The New York Observer) See also: "Weekly News Roundup: Oct. 21, 2013"

• "Ad Exec Merv Bloch Vanishes from 'Ghostbusters' [Co-op] Building for a Not so Scary $7.5 M" by Chris Pomorski (The New York Observer)

Co-op / Condo Board Issues... 

• "Condos That Fund a Brooklyn Park" by Alison Gregor (The New York Times)

• "Infamous Airbnb Hotelier Toshi to Pay $1 Million to NYC" by Drew Grant (The New York Observer)

• "The Climbing Cost of Condo Care" by Sanette Tanaka (The Wall Street Journal)

• "When Boards Go Awry, Anything Goes in Affordable [HDFC] Co-ops" by Naomi Cohen, Andrea Shang and Christian Zhang (Columbia Daily Spectator)

• "NYSERDA Recognizes Six Engineering Firms [including four in New York City] for Doubling Energy Efficiency Savings in Multifamily Buildings" (Multi-Housing News)

WebCitation archives:

Staten Island Condo Fire • Smoke-Free • Board Approved • Yoko Ono • Ghostbusters Building • Condos That Fund • Infamous Airbnb • Climbing Cost • When Boards Go Awry • NYSERDA 

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