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10/23/09 While NYC Renters Rejoice, More Pain for Tishman and Co. [WSJ]- 10/23/09 Tsk, tsk, Tishman [NY Post]
- 10/23/09 Why Jerry's $5.4B gamble failed [NY Post]
- 10/22/09 Stuyvesant Town Ruling Worries Tenants and Landlords Alike [NYT]
- 10/22/09 Court Deals Blow to Owners of Apartment Complex [NYT]
- 10/22/09 Tishman Rent Rise in Manhattan Voided by New York’s Top Court [Bloomberg]
- 10/22/09 Court Shakes Up New York Landlords [WSJ]
- 10/19/09 StuyTown Tenants Fear Inspections [WNYC]
- 10/15/09 Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association seeks second chance to buy building complex [NY Daily News]
- 10/15/09 Commercial Real Estate Watch: Stuyvesant Town Set To Implode [Business Insider]
- 10/15/09 An Apartment Complex Teeters [WSJ]
- 9/11/09 Stuy Town Down [NY Post]
- 9/10/09 Tishman Speyer's Stuyvesant Town Lost $3 Billion [Bloomberg]
- 9/10/09 Stuy Town Owners in Court Over Rent Boosts [NBC NY]
- 9/10/09 When a Real Estate Deal Goes Bad [NYT]
- 9/9/09 Tishman, BlackRock, Could Default on Stuy Town Loans [Real Deal]
- 9/9/09 ST / PCV on the Verge of Ruin [Gothamist]
- 9/9/09 Bloomberg's Rich Friends, and His Silence on Affordable Housing [The Awl]
- 9/1/09 Florida Lost $250 Millionon New York's Stuyvesant Apartments [Bloomberg]
- 8/31/09 Fitch: Stuy-Town Debt Reserve May Run Dry [Globe St]
- 8/25/09 Cash Crisis for America's Most Expensive Housing Complex [Multi Family Investor]
- 8/22/09 Stuy Town Cash Crisis [NY Post]
- 8/6/09 Welcome to Stuy Town U [NY Press]
- 7/21/09 Rape in Stuyvesant Town [NY Post]
- 7/15/09 Targets Elderly Men [The Villager]
- 7/14/09 East Side Attacker Of Elderly Re-Emerges [CBS News]
- 6/12/09 Police release video of suspect in muggin spree [NY Daily News]
- 6/4/09 I Really Don’t Think People Defecate in the Hallways of Stuyvesant Town [NY Magazine]
- 5/27/09 Now It's War [Curbed]
- 5/22/09 Group of Stabilized Tenants File $10M Suit [Curbed]
- 5/21/09 Landlords Could Soon be Responsible for Indoor Air Quality [Epoch Times]
- 4/7/09 Tishman Speyer Victory: Can Appeal Stuy Town Rent Ruling [Huffington Post]
- 5/18/09 Protections Sought For Foreclosed-Upon Renters [City Limits]
- 5/6/09 Stuy Town Woman Fondled by Teen [NY Post]
- 4/23/09 Gang Violence Leads to Mounted Partol in ST [Town & Village]
- 4/9/09 Perv Plea: Save My Stuy Apt [NY Post]
- 3/6/09 Stuy Town Owners Set Back on Rents [Metro]
- 3/6/09 Big Landlord Found to Have Wrongly Raised Rents [NYT]
- 3/6/09 Stuy Town Rent Win [NY Post]
- 3/5/09 NY court deals landlords huge setback [Crain's]
- 3/3/09 Study Questions Whether Cameras Cut Crime [NYT]
- 2/25/09 Stuyvesant Town Debt May Be Cut If Rent Law Changes [Bloomberg]
- 2/25/09 Fitch may downgrade New York City apartment CMBS [Reuters]
- 2/5/09 Proposed Rent Rules Stir an Owner Outcry [NYT]
- 2/1/09 Clash of the Utopias [NY Mag]
- 1/20/09 Illegal walls turn NYC apartments into firetraps [MSNBC]
- 1/14/09 Apartments Try to Stay Afloat [WSJ]
- 1/11/09 STUY TOWN OWNER SUED OVER 'EVICTION SPREE' [NY Post]
- 12/31/08 Tishman Close To Figuring Out If Stuy-Town Was Worth It [NY Observer]
- 12/16/08 A List a Landlord Doesn’t Want to Be On [NYT]
- 11/21/08 NYPD Daily Crime Blotter [NY Post]
- 11/13/08 Unclear why E Side water runs brown [NY Daily News]
- 11/13/08 Brown tap water plagues NYC residents for weeks [WCBSTV]
- 11/11/08 Will Tisnman Speyer Buckle [The Real Deal]
- 10/28/08 No gas for one week steams Stuy Town [NY Daily News]
- 10/26/08 Tishman Speyer up against residential rout [Crain's]
- 10/26/08 A Shift in Albany Could Avert Higher Rents [Gotham Gazette]
- 10/21/08 Heat's on Tishman [NY Post]
- 10/17/08 Stuy Town Fight Club [Curbed]
- 10/13/08 Managers facing ‘Survivor’ challenge [PI]
- 10/7/08 What the Other Half Thinks [City Limits]
- 9/29/08 Big Squeeze on Affordable Housing [NYP]
- 9/28/08 More City Apartments Facing Foreclosure [Crain's]
- 9/27/08 Stuy Town Blues [NYP]
- 9/17/08 Stuy Town a Money Loser for Tishman? [WNYC]
- 9/8/08 Out of Control [Barron's]
- 8/27/08 From a Doorman to Dorm Rooms [WSJ]
- 8/26/08 Fear of Defaults After a Flurry of Apartment House Sales [NYT]
- 8/3/08 Tishman's Stuy Buy Hurting [New York Post]
- 7/23/08 Revenues at Stuyvesant Town are Down [Gothamist]
- 7/23/08 Stuyvesant Town Revenues Have Fallen, Report Says [NYT]
- 7/15/08 Stuyvesant Town Renters Rally in Wake of WallGate [Curbed]
- 7/14/08 Stuy Town Wall Woes [New York Post]
- 7/5/08 A Very Stuyvesant Town Fourth of July [Gothamist]
- 7/2/08 Tishman Speyer Canceled Pressurized Wall [Curbed]
- 6/29/08 Life After Tenements [NYT]
- 6/22/08 Far From the Fairways, Unpopular Visitors [NYT]
- 5/27/08 Stuy Town Follies: Now It's War [Curbed]
- 5/27/08 Tenants Roiled by Challenges on Residency [NYT]
- 5/27/08 Renters Forced Out of Stuyvesant Town [NYT]
- 5/22/08 Preserving Stuyvesant Town [NY Sun]
- 5/8/08 Everybody's Sexy in Stuyvesant Town! [NYMAG]
- 3/5/08 Stuyvesant Town, Desperate for Renters? [Gothamist]
- 5/27/07 Tenants Blast Stuy Town 'Spying' [NYP]
- 5/27/07 Landlord probes tenants in fight over apartments [WABC]
- 10/21/07 Child Pornography Arrest Stirs Previous Allegation Against Therapist [NYT]
- 1/16/07 After Sale, Rent Increases Give Some Sticker Shock [NYT]
- 9/23/06 Complexes’ Seller Pushes Profits, as Critics Fear Higher Rents [NYT]
- 7/12/06 An Earlier Case of a Gas Explosion After a Broken Relationship [NYT]
- 7/6/06 A Surprise Lurks at Stuyvesant Town - Luxury Rentals [NY Sun]
- 11/5/03 Stuyvesant Town tenants wary of N.Y.U. influx [The Villager]
- 10/23/02 Sniper Hits a Teacher at Stuyvesant Town [NYT]
Bravo!
Good stuff.
Great!
That is a terrific video. Thank you to the lady who made it.
LOVE IT!
We need to see more videos like this because it puts a face to Stuyvesant Town and shows we are a diverse group of real people and not a retirement home clinging to the non-existent "rent controlled" apartments journalists frequently claim we have.
The woman who made it is Sandi Bachom.
Excellent!
Really puts a "face" of ST/PCV....
We're not just some piece of real estate property!
Kudos to Sandi Bachom, the film's creator.
I have lived here for 18 years and this is my home!
Great video--I'm in it.
Wilbur Ross says his company perfect for PCVST on CNBC (also piece says Donald interested in nothing more than getting his name in press. Surprise!)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/35197318
Great video and great tag line!
Coop tax possible (via the Observer):
"Governor Paterson has a gift for Mayor Bloomberg in his proposed budget: more than $50 million a year from the under-tapped resource that is the city's co-op housing market.
"In the governor's cross hairs are loans for co-ops, which have long been free of taxation while taxes on equivalent condos and houses run between 2.05 percent and 2.175 percent of any mortgage. The budget seeks to allow the city to slap this mortgage recording tax onto co-ops, swinging the tax lasso around a cash source that has been eyed-but untouched-by city officials since at least the days of Ed Koch." (continued http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/bell-tolls-co-ops)
Depending on available resources, it would be good to do more pieces like this and post them on YouTube, LL, and other blogs. It's easy for readers of Curbed or NY Mag to stereotype ST/PCV residents as a bunch of complaining leaches because they don't know the residents here and it's always easier to wrap a demographic in a stereotype than it is to deal with a problem.
If real people were willing to do short clips like this and talk about some of the ongoing problems they were having and their concerns with new management, it would be hard for people to ignore the situation.
Kudos to Sandi Bachom!
Kudos! Marvelous.!
As someone said to me recently re TS: "This is my HOME. This isn't part time!"
such a beautiful video!!! and eff Trump. no one wants him anywhere near Stuyvesant Town. what a big fat slob he is
I just went to YouTube and sent a link to the video to a bunch of friends. There are a number of complimentary comments for the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TzL2UyUwHQ
I absolutely love it and I'm in it too :-)
Seriously, when the Oval atrocities close next month we should set up an impromptu recording studio where we film tenants' stories and youtube them.
Read it and vomit: "The Selling of Stuy Town": http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/selling-stuy-town#
Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond says that a kleptocracy only works if these 4 simple rules are followed:
1. Disarm the populace, and arm the elite.
2. Make the masses happy by redistributing much of the tribute received, in popular ways.
3. Use the monopoly of force to promote happiness, by maintaining public order and curbing violence.
4. Construct an ideology or religion justifying kleptocracy.
They're screwing up number 2 big time.
Another MetLife mess. I heard on QXR this morning that a judge has ordered that Riverton be put up for auction. The tenants there have been through a lot--pray for them (I say that in a nonreligious way).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/nyregion/03riverton.html?scp=1&sq=Riverton&st=cse
Yeah--where are my bread and circuses? Bring back the Roman empire.
Roman Empire? How about America's middle-class era, when management didn't "go out ruthlessly to reward itself." When sound management was "expected to exercise restraint.'' And when politicians were less inclined to to cater to the interests of the wealthy?
thank you, I shot this video, do you have any idea how we can get it seen? Please come to the YouTube page and give it 5 stars and post comments!
Sandi Bachom
www.sandibachom.com
Peter Cooper 5 years
Over charged $25,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TzL2UyUwHQ
Dear Community
thank you, I shot this video, do you have any idea how we can get it seen? I was hoping if we got thousands of views and comments, we could go viral and then get noticed. Please come to the YouTube page and give it 5 stars and post comments!
Sandi Bachom
www.sandibachom.com
Peter Cooper 5 years
Over charged $25,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TzL2UyUwHQ
Great idea, I'd like to interview all 25,000!!!!! and keep putting them up on YouTube, we could start anytime, maybe set up a place people can just come in and say their name and how long they've lived here.
This Is My Home Project....if Steven Spielberg can do it....YES WE CAN!!!!!!
please put your comments on YouTube and tell all your friends, if we get thousands of views on youtube, we can send to Axelrod and if we name the CEO's of Fannie and Freddie make it uncomfortable.
Yesterday btw, we now own 100% of Freddie and Fannie!!!!!
Sandi
email me
getreel@earthlink.net
Have you tried sending it to some of the morning news shows, like Today? They would have the time slots to run it. The regular evening news most likely do not. Unfortunately, I don't have contact info for Today Show and the others, but I'll check around.
You said that the current kleptocracy was falling down on making "the masses happy by redistributing much of the tribute received, in popular ways." That's what the Romans did with their policy of bread (food) and circuses (entertainment). The Soviets keeping the price of vodka cheap falls in the same category. That's what I was referring to.
Great video, Sandi. You could try sending it to the media that have been covering this story. They could certainly embed it in their online stories. This site has posted many of the articles--NY Times, Observer, Bloomberg, Crain's. But why not send it to media in places that invested--California, England, etc.