
As reported in
The New York Times
this morning,
Tishman Speyer is hard at work evicting
Stuyvesant Town's
rent-stabilized tenants. It's been no secret that Tish-Spy has hired
three separate law firms to dig up dirt on tenants to use as grounds
for eviction but they have now broadened their "black list" making it
harder for stabilized tenants to exist.
They have mobilized a
secret police unit to go door to door tossing rent-stabilized tenants
on the street if they are found breaking the new rules. These rules
include:
- Painting your apartment with anything other than Stuyvesant Town's lead-based paint.
- Refusal to sign the agreement that no lead paint has been used even though it has.
- Turning off pre-tuned Stuy Town propaganda radio channels.
- Hanging actual artwork on the walls.(Art will be confiscated.)
- Decorating apartments in anything other than contemporary modern Dutch junk.
Panicked
residents are placing large bookcases in front of their apartment doors
with the hopes the secret police won't discover them. Residents caught
breaking any of these rules are gathered up, tattooed with an
identification number, and carted off to Staten Island.
Tish-Spy
says they are working within the law to evict tenants they feel are
"abusing the system" though most tenants, both stabilized and market
rate, feel harassed as usual. "They now have police trucks slowly drive
through the complex on the last day of the month and use a bullhorn to
remind tenants the rent is due the following day," said one new tenant.
"That was never mentioned in my welcome package!"
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