rich people arguing with rich people. who gives a flying fuck?

they're knocking down beautiful buildings all over town on speculation yet your tree fort gets landmarked? you must be sucking some D somewhere

or maybe I should read the comments which seem to me more intelligent than the reporting

Inaccurate headline. Watch the video. Nowhere does it say the treehouse was landmarked. The woman does say the treehouse is "as good as landmarked".

I know Gothamist isn't a real news site, but sheesh... can you at least pay attention to the stuff you're posting.

1:55 mark, Melinda says, "as good as landmarked".

"Good as" does not mean necessarily so.

P.S. The house may be landmarked. The tree house was just lucky.

In this neighborhood you have powerful people who can make your life miserable.I saw where the cops were at her door because of a tree house who was behind that. this goes on in the village all the time when you are trying to get work done on a building or in your own backyard. what a bunch of self absorb people that think they are so important .

Ignore that the reporter wrote or she says. It is NOT landmarked by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Read the full story. She only avoided a fine and beat a violation in ECB court = Mickey Mouse.

I wonder what she is going to say when her little darlings fall down from the tree and the thing collapses on them because it was poorly constructed without building permits that all structures require in NYC.

I think you've made a mistake. We're talking about American private property - not a state-run communist orphanage.

"I wonder what she is going to say when her little darlings fall down from the tree and the thing collapses on them because it was poorly constructed without building permits that all structures require in NYC."

Hopefully she'll say the same thing parents say when kids do any of the following:

- fall off a rope-swing that was hanging from a tree without any official permits.

- jump their BMX off a home-made ramp that was not constrcuted in line with DOT standards.

- crash a go-kart that didn't have a DMV inspection.

i.e. tough luck, that's part of growing uup.

So who gave it Landmark status? I only read the article from the link provided, and it didn't give more information.

I think it's nice they let her have the treehouse, but to even think of "landmark" regardless of who grants it is ridiculous...as we all agree on...

Wow. It's nice that it got landmarked but aren't there older, more important structures that deserve landmark status?

NIMBYism indeed... Its in the back yard, who cares?

Very charming, but this gets landmarked and Yankee Stadium didn't?

What POS! I hit them with one of those stairs..

Suspicious structure... Housing osama...

I swear if it aint uniform people shit there pants...

Nice! Fuck the whiny NIMBY neighbor, I'd love it if my neighbors had something like that going on.

Agreed. It's a treehouse on private property, the owners should be able to live at home as they wish.