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EV Grieve has details from Friday night's protest over the tenement-to-mansion conversion of 47 East 3rd Street. According to EV Grieve, the protest, organized by other East Village residents (and not remaining tenants at the building), seemed to be "fairly calm and orderly," with "protestors...fenced in by the police" (and the police seemed nice, too). There's also video here. Sidenote: Lately, the cousin of 47 East 3rd Street's owner has apparently been commenting on various blogs, eviscerating his "spoiled brat" cousin.
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They can protest all they want, but the courts have the final say, not a mob.
The courts dropped the ball and made the wrong decision. This is a major setback for all tenants in the city. They should challenge the judge's competency.
YOU think it's bad decision because it's not in YOUR interest for an owner to live on his own property and choose not to be a landlord. The law permits this, but it's doubtful lawmakers envisioned anything on this scale.
If he's doing all this in bad faith to get better paying tenants in the near future, then open fire. If not, too bad.
Douchebag, There are laws that protect tenants and this action totally violates tenants rights.
AngryGod, it's not exactly fair to call them a Mob. The article even states they were calm and orderly. Why vilify them for peacefully exercising their right to assembly and demonstration?
If the Economakis' succeed in turning one apartment building into a mansion imagine the future for other residents. There is going to be an uprising in angry homeless people murdering sleazy millionaire developers. It is bad enough we are getting pushed out by rising rents but to evict and entire building so two jerks can live in all that space is ridiculous. They are probably doing this just to see if they can.
Sure they have a right to live on their own property but evicting all the residents to renovate and turn a 15 apartment building into one mansion is just pure greed. Throw these yuppie scum back to the 80s where they would have been shot by now.
My spouse is a tenant-side housing lawyer. When I first read about this, I was outraged, but she explained that the law is on the property owner's side, no matter how egregious it may seem to the rest of us.
When NYS Senate is controlled by the Democrats, and it is likely to occur soon, probably this year, then they will control the governor's mansion and the legislature, and quickly this loophole for landlords will dry up.
Read the link to what the landlord Economakis'cousin had to say about this ageist, sexist, anti-Semite relative of his.
Anyone who defends Economakis needs his/her head examined.
Many years ago when my landlord separated from his wife, she legally displaced a tenant to get an apartment as a co-owner. This was their only building and it provided him/them free rent and mortage and tax payments. He worked as a mechanic at JFK. This building was a small walk-up. It was their retirement nest egg.
The current laws were written to protect such small-time landlords who didn't have a lot of money. The owner on 3rd Street is taking advantage of this, but the law doesn't take his wealth into account.
If the very well behaved "mob" thinks it should, then they should work to change the law and not picket someone who paid for property and wishes to use it as the law permits him.
I don't get it. They own the building and they want to live in it. They're under no obligation to rent it out.