Weekly News Roundup: Condo Loses $1 Million Hush-Up Case; Perv Super; More
New York City: Feb. 8, 2010 — Recent news of note for co-op and condo boards. Updating last week's story, an Upper West Side building is so far refusing to fire its sex-offender super, despite residents telling newspapers he's propositioning them! (The residents, not the newspapers.) The Parkchester South Condominium has to pay a million-dollar settlement because its board hushed up a crime spree. Green cars are in, barking dogs are out, and a co-op/condo association president takes city and state government to task. Plus much, much more. Read all the latest co-op and condo news on Habitat's Monday News Roundup, which now also includes permanent archival links at WebCitation.org!
- "Condo Coughs Up $1M for Rape Victim of Hushed-up Crime Spree" by Brendan Brosh ( Daily News)
- "Super Perv Stripped of Apt. Keys" by Dan Mangan ( New York Post)
- "Are Condo Renters Treated Like Second-Class Citizens?" by Joey Arak (Curbed.com)
- "Green Innovations at Seward Park Co-op" ( Grand Street News) and "Car-Sharing Instead of More Parking? LES Co-op Says: 'Fantastic' " by Noah Kazis (StreetsBlog.com) on in-house rental-car partnership
- "The Debarking Debate" ( New York Magazine "Daily Intel" site) and "Noisy Dogs Often Quietly Debarked" by Katherine Butler (Mother Nature Network) on an Upper East Side co-op that had a shareholder debark his dog
- "Point of View: 'Co-ops Never Run Out of Money' " by Stephen J. Budihas, president, Association of Riverdale Cooperatives and Condominiums ( The Riverdale Press)
- "Doormen Guard Against Craigslist Crazies" (BrickUnderground.com)
- "Manhattan's Largest Apartment Manager Expands" by Amanda Fung (Crain's New York Business), on Douglas Elliman acquisition of Bellmarc
- "Retaining Wall Collapse Smashes 10 Vehicles" (NBC4i, Columbus, OH) on a Cincinnati analog to Manhattan's Castle Village collapse
WebCitation archives:
"Hushed-up" • "Apartment Manger Expands" • More to come after WebCitation.org returns from scheduled maintenance