July 21, 2008
East 68th Street Apartment Building Has Political Bigwigs
In a sort of addendum to coverage of Lenox Terrace, the Harlem apartment building with well-know residents like Representative Charles Rangel and Governor Parterson who have rent-stabilized apartments, the NY Times points out that 215 East 68th Street has a lot of political starpower. Some tenants include former Mayor David Dinkins, former police commissioner Howard Safir, former fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen, and New York county clerk Norman Goodman (Dinkins, Goodman and Safir say they pay market rate--or "a lot" in--rent) and many say their friendship with the building owner Rudin Management helped get them. Back at Lenox Terrace, the Post breaks down the famous people who seem to be paying not very much for their apartments.
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What we have here is a retirement home for friends of the Rudins. You can bet every one of those Judges and politicians have at least one second home outside the city, and in many cases they spend most of the year away from 68th St.
The Rudins reap many benefits from the city and should reward not the politicians, but the citizens, however those are the guys they look to
get rid of. However I really don't feel sorry for anyone living in that building most of them probably can afford the market rate rents.
The Rudins will rough up anyone that's not in their circle. The rest of them get a pass of some sort.
This city needs a Real Estate Czar to settle these issues, the real estate interests control too many politicians. Those judges that are still working and live in their buildings cannot be trusted to rule objectively. athe worst thing that will happen is that the Rudins will collect market rate rents from everybody in their buildings.
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I wished I lived in a building like that. My landlord thought he was doing me a favor by replacing my 10 yr. old freezer, which no longer froze.
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Politicians are parasites.