Co-op / Condo News: Judge Rules Voyeurs Are Legal If They Use a Camera
Aug. 12, 2013 — Recent news affecting co-op / condo buyers, sellers, boards and residents. This week, if you look into the windows of people's homes, you're a peeping Tom ... unless you take photographs and put them up for sale. Then it's legal to spy on people because, hey, it's art! So ruled Judge Eileen Rakower after Tribeca parents sued a voyeuristic creep — the New York Post's word — who shot pictures of their kids and sold them for up to $10,000 each (without paying or even getting a release form from the unwary models.) Homeowners beware.
We've also a lawsuit between condo-owners over what they say is their building's overpriced gym, a reminder that clothes make the doorman, and did you know that New York City apartments aren't considered "luxury" until they cost $3 million? Plus, for condo and co-ops boards, tips on noisy neighbors and meeting minutes.
Read all the latest co-op /condo news for buyers, sellers and board members in Habitat's weekly Monday News Roundup. Also included: Permanent archival links: If a link ever goes dead, you'll still be able to read the backup at WebCitation.org.
Co-op / Condo Buying, Selling, Living...
- "Judge Backs the Right of Creepy Tribeca Artist to Photograph People Through Their Windows" by Selim Algar (New York Post)
- "Caledonia Owners, Equinox Gym Can't 'Work Out' Pricing Feud" by Hana R. Alberts (NY.Curbed.com)
- "NYC’s Best Dressed Doormen Get the Savile Row Treatment" by Linda Barr O'Flanagan (Real Estate Weekly)
- "Manhattan Homes Under $3 Million Never Harder to Buy" by Oshrat Carmiel (Bloomberg.com)
- "New York City Foreclosures Pick Up in Q2 2013, Reach 2-Year High" (PropertyShark.com press release)
- "Ask an Expert: Do Appraisers Look at a Building's Financials? Do Mortgage Lenders?" by Teri Karush Rogers (BrickUnderground.com)
- "A Getaway Apartment, in Your Own Building" by Joanne Kaufman (The New York Times)
- "The Ethicist: Thy Neighbor’s Cat" and the co-op board, by Chuck Klosterman (The New York Times)
Co-op / Condo Board Issues...
- "Withholding Maintenance Over a Noisy Neighbor / That’s Why There Are Minutes" by Jay Romano (The New York Times)
WebCitation archives:
Judge Backs • Caledonia • Doormen • Manhattan Homes • Foreclosures • Ask an Expert • Getaway • Ethicist • Withholding / Minutes