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The housing rights group Housing Here and Now just announced a list of the city's top ten worst landlords, as well as the corresponding website, NYC's Worst Landlords. You can read a PDF of the report which details how the apartments are rife with vermin, building problems, and more, as well as let Housing Here and Now know if your landlord is a slumlord. While many people have landlord horror stories, the ones in the PDF are really insane: "leaks, broken windows, defective plumbing, mildew, broken and defective plaster, gaping holes in ceilings and floors, insect infestation," cats roaming the halls, attacking tenants, ceilings collapsing... you name it.
Gothamist on your rights as a tenant 1, 2. The NY Post found out that two of City Council Speaker Gifford Miller's donors are on the list.
Photograph of NYC's Worst Landlords' "Shame of the Week," which is at 100 E 124th St., Manhattan
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sad to say, but this list gives us heebs a bad name.
I was hoping to see John Burke Jr. on this list. The man is a colossal pr1ck.
I think this "shame" list is good in some ways, but it would be nice to have a list of "good landlords" too. I know my landlady is great, but I've had bad landlords in the past and some good ones... fortunately, I've been lucky enough to avoid slumlords like these guys though.
yep... lived in #9's building for a year and a half. Roaches, f-d up heaters, terrible smell in hallways, etc. I'm technically STILL on my lease since he was conveniently "in meetings" every time I called to set up a meeting to have it switched over. I'm outta there now, though, and loving it!
The fact that Miller is keeping the landlord's dirty money makes him an utter hypocrite and marks him as a political opportunist.
apu, your comment is ridiculous. i'm jewish and proud, and don't claim to be responsible for what any other jew does, in the same way a guy named mcdaniels isn't responsible for what a guy named mcmahon does (or whatever; you get the point).
From the article:
"Housing Here and Now is a coalition of over 100 tenant organizations, clergy, unions and advocates that came together in February, 2005 to force policymakers to take action to create and preserve decent affordable housing for all New Yorkers."
The only feasible policy that will lead to decent and affordable housing is not to further saddle property owners with even higher regulatory burdens. Sadly, the situation as exists today could have been avoided if not for all the well-intentioned, yet destructive housing regulations.
... yeah. I'm sure that it's the burden of rent stabilization that's saddling these poor landlords with the burden of being complete jerks. If only we allowed a free market to 'weed out these bad guys'.