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Hot 97's landlord is suing in order to evict the troublemaking station from its Tribeca building. This comes after the NYPD installed a camera to surveil/scare away activities outside the studio (Hot 97, for their part, says they like the camera). The District Council of Carpenters Benefits's lawyer claims that "Hot 97 is a public and private nuisance to the people of New York. They are fostering a level of violence to ensure a high rating," but Hot 97, which has the lease until 2012, says that there are no legal grounds to evict them. Further, Hot 97 recommends the the station, the landlord, and the NYPD meet to work out a security plan. We'd love to be in that meeting! This ruling will be interesting, because it'll pit a safety issue versus the right to lease. Can you evict your law-flouting, violence-attracting tenant?
The Smoking Gun has a long list of various violent incidents at Hot 97 included in the lawsuit. This will so be a Behind the Music.
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The Daily News calls the place "SHOT 97."
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http://www.barrypopik.com/article/1524/shot-97-hot-97
Damn; just realized what building this is. Would walk by there every day to/from work. This explains the thugs constantly playing Xbox from their parked tricked-out SUVs on Hudson in the early evenings...
Above all, they play really crappy music.
I pretty much stopped listening to this station after their DJ's made derogatory comments concerning Aaliyah's tragic death in a plane crash in 2001. Then I completely stopped listening when they aired jokes about the loss of life during the tsumanmi of 2004.
This station sucks.
All radio stations in NY suck, except WFUV, which only sucks on Sunday late mornings during it's church broadcast and whenever they play Celtic music.
WCBS didn't used to suck back when they were oldies. Maybe it's because most of today's music sucks.
I worked in that building, on Hudson St. between Houston and Clarkson, from about 1999 to 2001 for Interworld, an ill-fated Internet startup that occupied a floor. Doing systems administrationn, I often worked late, and had to contend with big crowds of thugs hanging around in the lobby and at the street. More than once when I'd drive in to do some work at night, I had to show multiple IDs and beg to get myself into the elevator to go upstairs. Once I was turned away and had to page the off-hours building management to let me in. During the day though, mingling with the station staff in the elevator, everyone was friendly and professional. Still, if I were looking for office space, that wouldn't be the building I'd choose.
Is it true the building security or at least one guard is armed? Per the Smoking gun complaint.