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The Biggest Award Ceremony of the Year

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! An award ceremony for the city’s worst landlords was held yesterday at 11:00 am and the winner is…Adam Mermelstein, the principal partner of 188 s. Third St Investors and TreeTop Development.
Noise generated by the 250 person crowd determined […]

Rent Stabilized Apartments to Increase as Much as 7.25%

The Rent Guidelines Board voted 5-4 last night to raise NYC’s rent regulated apartments as much as 4.25% for one year leases and 7.25% for two year leases. The vote was delayed for more than an hour by protesters drums, pots and pans and whistles to try their best to disrupt the […]

Affordable Housing Drops by 20% in Brooklyn and Queens, 17% in NYC

Overall, affordable housing dropped 17% in NYC, 20% in Brooklyn, 21% in Queens, 12% in Manhattan, 21% in Staten Island and 15% in The Bronx.
The study shows that the number of apartments that are affordable to people earning $32,000 a year (which is 80% of the median household income in the city) has […]

East Village Tenants Win Temporary Victory Against Rich Gluttons

Score one for the little guy, at least for now. A judge has ruled that Alistair and Catherine Economakis can’t evict 10 tenants in a rent stabilized building in the East Village in order to turn it into their own private five story mansion featuring a library, a gym, a nanny’s […]

Up With Corporate America, Down With Poor Slackers

The failure to sell the drinks will leave the city some $93 million
short of the cash and marketing benefits it hoped to receive from the
deal, officials said yesterday. To try to increase sales, the city
agreed yesterday to renegotiate the complex arrangement so that it will
spend more to promote its partnership with Snapple through concerts,
bus-shelter advertisements […]

Shocking, I Mean Shocking New Evidence of What Was Already Blatently Obvious About Bush Has Been Exposed…Again…Shocking!

I’m not sure what this would be comparable with.  We aren’t as forgiving with other aspects of society, but with Bush, it’s like we’re ignorant sheep, rather Lemmings, following this idiot right off the cliff.  Does a baseball player have to strike out 600 times in a row, before we finally say on the 600th […]

Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightly’s Nude Vanity Fair Cover

This is the cover that Rachel McAdams backed out of, maybe she got nervous that her hairy nipples might show up in the final cut.  Come on Rachel, you know they would have airbrushed those out.
We’ve seen plenty of Scarlett Johansson before, but seeing her there with the kind of fair skin that drives us […]

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