Co-op / Condo News: Free Parking for Rich People, Co-op Prez Jumps Line
March 17, 2014 — Recent news affecting co-op / condo buyers, sellers, boards and residents. This week, one of the world's richest condominiums has a big, circular driveway it won't let limo drivers use. Why should it? The NYPD looks the other way as a half-dozen or more limos idle daily in a no-parking zone, spewing fumes to other, less connected buildings. Very nice, 15 Central Park West. Meanwhile, rent-controlled seniors in a co-op are forced to evict their son, and a co-op board president admits that people were ahead of him in line when he took a four-bedroom apartment at the affordable-housing East Midtown Plaza. He doesn't have six people in his family like City rules say, but so what? He's just practicing to be the kind of people who live in 15 Central Park West.
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Co-op / Condo Buying, Selling, Living...
- "Couple [at a Co-op] Desperate to Kick Out Son to Avoid Own Eviction: Suit" by Julia Marsh (New York Post) and "Elderly Manhattan Couple File Suit to Evict Their 50-Year-Old Son from their Rent-Controlled Apartment Because of His Behavioral Problems" by Dareh Gregorian (New York Daily News)
- "Co-op President Accused of Cutting Waitlist Fights for 4-Bedroom Apartment" by Heather Holland (DNAInfo.com)
- "At a Luxury Building on the Upper West Side, the Perks Start at the Curb," on police and the City giving 15 Central Park West free, private, personal limo parking in a no-parking zone, by Sharon Otterman (The New York Times)
- "Nobody Told Us About Outbreak: [Co-op City] Residents Fuming Over Silence on Disease" by Michael Horowitz (Fordham News blog)
- "LeFrak Facing Dozens of Legal Battles over Blocked Condo Views" by Kaja Whitehouse (New York Post)
- "Ask an Expert: My New Apartment Is So Noisy! Can I Sue the Seller for Not Telling Me?" by Leigh Kamping-Carder (BrickUnderground.com)
- "Manhattan Co-op, Condo Prices Reach Highs of 2008" by Josh Barbanel (The Wall Street Journal)
- "Ticketers Showed No Mercy [at Amalgamated Houses] After Snow" by Kaitlin McCormack (The Riverdale Press)
- "When Bedbugs Bite [at a Co-op]" by Ronda Kaysen (The New York Times)
Co-op / Condo Board Issues...
- "Gramercy [Condo] Owners Take Up (Legal) Arms Against DOT Over Bus Stop Expansion" by Chris Pomorski (The New York Observer) 340 E. 23rd Street
- "Brokers on the Board" by Ronda Kaysen (The New York Times; second item)
WebCitation archives:
Couple • Elderly • Co-op President • Luxury Building • Outbreak • LeFrak • Ask an Expert • Ticketers • Gramercy • Bedbugs / Brokers