Three new RFPs are out for housing/mixed-use developments on City land at 137 Centre St. in Manhattan, St. Ann’s Avenue in the Bronx and 168th Street in Jamaica, Queens. Projects sizes range from about 100 to 300 units plus stores.
Feeling trapped in a fixed price contract with energy prices falling? There may be something you can do. Join us for ABO’s Energy Market Forecast and a discussion of energy buying strategies, with Thomas Devlin, Director, ABO-FS Energy Services , 4:15 p.m., this Thursday, February 26, 2015 at the Club 101, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY. Please RSVP to associatedbuilders@abogny.com
Airbnb may finally have lost a key case with the eviction of a rent stabilized tenant from a 421a building. “Using a residential apartment as a hotel room and profiteering off of it is grounds for eviction . . . as it undermines a purpose of the Rent Stabilization Code,’’ according to the Housing Court judge.
Mayor de Blasio announced a major initiative to help small businesses with under 100 employees, including streamlining some Department of Buildings permitting processes and making sanitation routing schedules more readily available, but not actually mentioning landlords in the category of small businesses.
Landlords were cited, however, in his announcement of a crackdown on owners who harass tenants. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joined the press conference to note that his office had tripled the number of harassment complaints it was investigating, to ten.
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) this morning reported another threat to Mayor de Blasio’s affordable housing plan. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is questioning whether local preferences for new units violate fair housing rules. The preference given local residents for new units is often the key to getting political approval for new developments.
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