This is the way. Both my kids took their road tests there and passed 1st try.

Ok, I admit that it's been a while, my younger is a college Junior! But we always found 'children's museums' better than LSC until they were at least preteens.

Dr. Lombardi at JFK & Fairview is awesome and his prices are very fair.

Tighten the bonnet nut, or repack it to be sure. The easier way to stop the steam is just stick a toothpick into the vent hole of the air vent valve!

God I hate steam.

Wow, if you think that was angry you must not get out much.

If you have a car then Staten Island Children's Museum or the Staten Island Zoo. Both small scale perfect for a toddler, unlike LSC where 90% is way over her head. The zoo exhibits range from petting zoo to a world class reptile collection. Most people here don't realise how close Staten Island is by car.

My daughter, thrilled to see the 3 Little Pigs at the SI zoo!

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Not at all true. You must provide them upon request, they are not a default.

So I'm not the only landlord who thinks this is ridiculous!

I'm curious, at what point in the rental process are all these fees disclosed for services that everywhere else are simply built into the rent? If it's not in the listing it seems pretty shady to me. Apparently there's a lot about the hi rise renting world I don't know as a mom-n'-pop operator. I would be embarrassed to charge my tenants for taking the trash from the cans to the curb.

Do you pay anything for your heat? And never mind the cost, think of the carbon being spewed by that waste.

That's an issue, and one I can't believe a landlord continues in this era of high energy costs. I assume it's an old steam heat building, but even with that there's solutions to that problem like thermostatic rad valves. Have you ever simply turned off some of the radiators? When we had a 6th fl apt in the city I think we had only one rad on in the whole place.

Like I said, that would have to be some strong determined 6 year old for most windows I've met.

As for victim blaming, there's a bad guy here, but people need to be less helpless and passive. It reminds me a bit of the people who cross the road with their nose buried in their phone because it's a crosswalk and they have right of way. Yes, they're right, but it's not a great survival strategy in the real world.

Jeez, what's next, an elevator toll? I get the manager's impulse to shift costs off the rent so your advertised rent is lower, but there's gotta be limits, otherwise this is going to be a race to the bottom where every 'whole building' expense is a separate bill and 'rent' is just the start of your monthly housing expenses. The only time I've broken out expenses is with included heat and free laundry. It became clear apartment hunters were unable to do the math comparing that to units without.

That said, I've had the quarterly water bill in a 3 family top $700, so boy is it tempting to bill separately!

This was 3 weeks ago. And why not just crack the window, or open the top not the bottom. If you're concerned about your kid's life that is....

Without a doubt the landlord is liable at this point. But what puzzles me is how can a parent simply shrug if a irresponsible landlord fails to protect their child and not take matters into their own hands? Window guards are not hard to install, and withholding the the cost from the rent would be totally justifiable. Plus, why was the window open to begin with? It's March for god sakes! I have yet to meet a rental window that a six-year-old could open easily.

Similar to Port Liberte, it's living in the city without really living in the city. If that floats your boat for some reason, have at it.

My experience has been they don't care as long as the bag isn't too heavy and they can't see that it's construction debris. 5 lb of rubble in a 33 garbage bag with household trash is never noticed, but it would take a long time to get rid of a few hundred pounds!

This isn't rocket science at all. It just takes the political will to defy NIMBYs and allow density in areas served by transit. Expanding transit is also great, but requires tremendous amounts of money, which is always a problem. And heaven forbid it takes parking or driving street space from cars!

Many of you have seen this pic of Kensington Ave I've posted before, the poster child of JC density issues with R1 zoning. 2 identical lots, 56 prewar homes in nonconforming buildings on the left, 8 zoning conforming homes on the right.

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And we cannot do it alone, the suburbs must densify to relieve the pressure. The town I grew up in on Long Island is 35 minutes from Penn station, has two rail stops, a cute walkable Downtown, and zero multifamily development. That is Anti-Urbanism.

Lesson of the day could be sharing, as in "Don't Bogart that joint, dude".

It could be worse. I've heard stories about people driving up with all their possessions to move in to a house they've rented over the internet sight unseen only to find it was a scam and the owner has no idea who they are! Who would do that???

Speaking as a landlord, I think application fees are scandalous. Given a year's lease is at least $20,000, I'm willing to eat the $30 that it costs me to run credit on a couple. It's just a cost of doing business even if someone ghosts me afterwards, as has happened. The pre-qualifying application system on Zillow does seem pretty fair however.

The days of the city accepting DIY debris from its residents at the 440 facility are long over. Other than paying a demo carting company, the only drive up place I know is Cardella up on Tonnelle. I think they have like $125 minimum but that covers a literal ton of waste.

>There is only one solution and it's getting New York City to build enough housing so their residents stop moving here.

100%, only it needs to be the suburbs as well as the city. The town I grew up in on Long Island is 35 minutes from Penn station, has two rail stops, and zero multifamily development.

The equity vultures are feeding at a housing shortage massacre caused by decades of rent control and exclusionary zoning, enacted and preserved by people trying to freeze the status quo.

New York State just defeated a measure that was trying to increase density in transit suburbs. This is what has caused high housing costs.

1st, your whole theory is a fiction built upon a fiction. Almost one cares about the proportion of land to improvement in their tax. The tax is the tax. Further, the 'land proportion' is utter nonsense with zero basis in reality. Mine is $400k on a property that is identical to a vacant lot across the street with identical zoning that sold for $3m 5 years ago. Another property has it's land at $225k, while the identical lot next door is at $150k. Appraisals are voodoo at best, criminal at worst. Assessments are even worse.

2nd, you've made a whole lot of erroneous assumptions about me and my politics. I am never NIMBY, never complain about my taxes, and support urbanism at all times.

But you are correct on my Rent Control views, it is theft of private property, pure and simple. Instead of socializing the cost of housing the less fortunate like a civilized society, we have decided that rental property owners alone should bear the cost. Rent control is 2nd only to exclusive zoning in causing the housing shortage that drives up costs.

Huh. Fascinating. I guess the fact that my tenants pay 100% of the tax on all my properties is just an illusion.