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Rent-controlled tenants living in the artist studios above Carnegie Hall received eviction letters last week from the state, but at least one of the six remaining holdouts remains defiant. 96-year-old Editta Sherman has been fighting to stay in her $530/month rent-controlled, 800 square foot studio apartment ever since the concert hall announced its expansion/renovation plans last year. The Carnegie Corporation has offered to relocate the remaining tenants "to equivalent or superior apartments in the neighborhood, paying any differential in rent for the remainder of their lives," but Sherman tells the Post, "They'll have to drag me out. They'll have to use their bare hands." Unless, of course, the corporation can come up with the $10 million figure she floated in October as the price of her evacuation.
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When the rent-stabilized tennant in question is over 90 years old, their weapon of choice is a whiffle bat.
I was thinking taser.
Carnegie hall for $530 a month?
I'd think it'd be worth at least $10,000 a month.
$10 million, I felt sorry for her till i read that.
now I know she is just a greedy old hag who has, probably, lived beyond her means at the expense of others.
I agree with Frank. They offered to move her and pay any rent differential for the rest of her life. What does she care? It looks like she's just being difficult because she can be.
Old people fear change.
Damn these seniors and their maverick-y ways.
this lady is hilarious. she was interviewed on npr a while back and indeed she did say the apartment was worth 10 million.
the radio interview, about 5 min:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96741299
Sorry. No sympathy for the lady.
She should be happy her heart is still beating. Not too people live in their 90s.
Does anyone know of a reliable description of how rent control works? I find it baffling that many facets of this situation could be possible.
Google is your friend:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/507825.html
Rent Controlled apartments are under the Maximum Base Rent Program(MBR). That means a maximum is set every two years and rents can only be raised up to the MBR (see the example below in fact sheet #22). In regards to the $2000 limit that you mentioned, Rent Stabilized apartments in NYC are deregulated when the rent reaches $2000 or more and the tenants have an income of at least $175,000 for two years (see below for more details). I've cut and pasted relevant sections, but
please click on the links for lots of info.
[there's much, much more...]
Not a difficult read.
I'm sympathetic -- when you hit 96, you just want to live out your days in peace, not try to adjust to a new place. You kinda wish they could just wait for her to bite it...but they've got to renovate sometime, and waiting for her body to cool isn't really an option.
(The $10 million strikes me as a red herring -- I think she was picking a pie-in-the-sky number that she knew they'd never pay. It's like if she said "sure, I'll give you the apartment -- if you make me Shah of Iran." It's just a colorful way of saying "over my dead body"; I wouldn't take it to mean that she's greedy or not really attached to her apartment.)
Don't be fooled by her age. She is old enough to know better! That money- grubbing woman should count her blessings.
Living in NY for $530 a month when most families can barely afford to live here and still eat? She's benifitted from a broken system originally intended for disadvantaged people and now she wants to horde 10 million away from a cultural institution? Shame on her.
sorry...typo. Benefitted
The area is hardly what it was when she was a teenager. The corporation did their best to accommodate the woman, now it's her turn. If she doesn't, I don't feel sorry for her. She's lucky she's not in a nursing or a funeral home at her age.
What if she lives to be as old as that woman in France who lived to be 126? The corporation owns the space, so throw her out on the street. Or get a real good floor maintenance service and wax the floors twice a day, with special attention paid to the stairwells.
look at all the miserable, jealous new yorkers above who want to see someone else miserable.
I don't want her apartment billybob. It's just unfair that someone who has had the good luck for so many years has to be so obstinate. Just look at that outfit she is wearing. She wore that same outfit for the last presidential inauguration she attended. Teddy Roosevelt's.
Teddy Roosevelt! Ha!
Bully!
Bully!
They should just wait until she dies. I mean, she's 96 — she can't be around for that much longer.
$530/month over Carnegie Hall? I almost had a heart attack. What I wouldn't do for that kind of luxury...
sgbxny, would you go so far as to murder someone?
And if so, contact Carnegie Hall management.
Have you guys seen the apartment in question? I wouldn't be in a hurry to leave it, either, even if it was 5x the rent.