A Hero’s Bench in Central Park.
In this week’s bulletin, we have stories of real estate, parking, jaywalking, and cats.
Outside 15 Central Park West, chauffeurs for the rich and powerful are allowed to idle their cars and double park with little fear of repercussion. (NY Times)
Rental buildings pay much higher tax rates than most condos and co-ops, even at fancy addresses, meaning renters end up footing a disproportionate percentage of the city’s property tax bill. If the tax rules were changed to make them more fair, the city might be due as much as $4 billion. (Bloomberg)
The 84-year-old man arrested for jaywalking who ended up bloodied on the ground at 96th street, had his first appearance in court. “The son of 84-year-old Kang Wong said, “This whole ordeal for our family has been a nightmare. My father isn’t a criminal, he is the victim here.” (Gothamist)
Parents of a 50-year-old man who suffers from a multiple personality disorder are suing him to have him removed from the building. He is allegedly harassing people in the building. “They’re obviously conflicted about doing this but they’ve tried many times to reason with him but it doesn’t really seem to work,” said the couple’s lawyer, Barry Schwartz. “He yells, screams, accosts board members, threatens them verbally, threatens them physically. It’s a bad situation.” (NY Post)
Residents of a development on 110th have been complaining about shoddy construction. “Condo owners at Cathedral Gardens, located at Manhattan Avenue and 110th Street, are nearing the end (they hope) of a four-year legal battle against their building’s developer, Artimus Construction. A group of residents filed suit against Artimus, alleging that their residences and common facilities have experienced safety and structural problems since day one.” (Curbed)
More cats need to be rescued from that gross apartment on 86th street. (CBS)
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Fancy people avoid parking tickets? Chauffeurs for the rich and powerful are allowed to idle their cars and double park with little fear of repercussion? Why is this newsworthy when the worshipers at the mosque on Riverside Drive and 72nd Street are allowed to park in no standing zones, double and triple park, and never receive a ticket? I sent the Times a picture of triple parked cars across from the mosque blocking the entrance ramp to the West Side Highway, but that did not incite their indignation.
JT…why aren’t BOTH these situations newsworthy? Unless infractions by Muslims are for some reason worse?
98rsd, that is exactly my point. Either both of these ongoing situations in the neighborhood should be covered or neither should.
Re: Police Officer assaulting an 84 year old man. The Police Officer should be reassigned to walking a beat in the North Bronx for not being able to recognize an aged person, and for not being kindly and helpful. In China the Police Officer’s action would be a capital offense.
IDPOLSKY 10025
NY has gone from fun to weird. I have never lived in the suburbs but now here i am in the suburban UWS…
Jay walking was never something that was an issue here in the past. People were always much too intelligent to risk walking in front of transportation. You never heard of people getting run over while crossing the street on a red light. There’s an overabundance of cars that’s all. Get them out of here!!!!!
Re: “There’s an overabundance of cars that’s all. Get them out of here!!!!!”
Hmmmm…some may recall the previous mayor’s (He Whose Name Shall Not Be Uttered For Fear of Arousing Wealth-o-phobia) campaign to introduce CONGESTION PRICING as a way of reducing vehicular traffic.
His plans were shot down by the NY State Assembly, specifically by Assemblyperson SHELDON SILVER, who caved to the pressures of the Outer Borough and Suburban types who suffer withdrawal symptoms if they can’t drive any place they choose.
And since Mayor BdB is playing the populist card he will never support congestion pricing for fear of seeming (GASP!!) “Manhattan-Centric”.
Cathedral Gardens?? — Is this the building that St. John the Divine cathedral gave space to on the 99 year lease?