Co-op / Condo News: Top Energy-Saving Firms, Airbnb Loss, Ghostbusters Bldg.
Dec. 2, 2013 — Recent news affecting co-op / condo buyers, sellers, boards and residents — but especially boards this week. A new condo in Brooklyn enhances its appeal and market value by supporting an adjacent park. A notorious Airbnb hotelier takes a fall. Learn what amenities add a lot to the cost of maintaining a co-op or condo building, and which don't. And find who NYSERDA calls New York City's top four engineering firms in helping buildings achieve energy-efficiency. Plus: Condo fire on Staten Island, tips for acing your co-op board admission interview, and the seller of a co-op in the "Ghostbusters building" (above) doesn't get slimed on the price.
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
Ghostbusters promotional image copyright 1984 Columbia Pictures