Housing
Consumer Price Index for August 2022 at 8.3%
Trading Economics. Inflation hurts consumers and businesses. Track your household inflation rate. Compare food purchased and utilities paid month-over-month. Compare your rent/mortgage/insurance/tax payments year-over-year. List unexpected bills. Take control over inflation. Expect the government (your elected officials) to control taxes.
The MHANY housing at 87-12 125 Street has an annoying garage gate alarm bell.
The building managed by MHANY has a gate warning bell that annoys tenants day and night when used. Can the owner turn it off?
Comptroller Lander, focus on helping Ida victims instead of creating new penalties for landlords.
Your “Basement Resident Protection Law” is to empower tenants living in not-to-Building-Department-code basements to sue their landlord. You will make the current housing and homeless crisis even worse! Instead, the 1907 Holzhausen v. City of New York case should be overridden and the City’s infrastructure and building codes should be upgraded in anticipation of more … Read more
It’s my tax dollars!
I support charities helping migrants and asylum seekers, but not entitlements doled out by the City government! News of freebies are already encouraging more migrants to come. Democrats are expanding the cost of “sanctuary city” on my dime. New York already has crime, housing and homeless crisis that it has not fixed.
Hurricane Ida killed 13 people in NYC on Sept 1, 2021.
City’s ancient sewage system could handle up to 1.75 inches of rain per hour. Hurricane Ida poured 3.75 inches. FEMA helped homeowners and tenants. 4,703 claims were filed against City including one by Danette Rivera. All were denied. What is the City’s infrastructure solution against future storms?
Five alarm fire in South Ozone Park continues to haunt survivors of neighboring damaged houses.
2 died on June 17, 2022. How do homeowners of the neighboring houses recover two months later? The elected officials should have a follow-up chart updating those tragedies in the community. Do you have an incident/situation that needs following up? One year later (June 2023), 104-18 125 Street is still a vacant lot. The house … Read more
At 115-91 Myrtle Avenue, house shakes every time bus passes by. Road buckled at least 4″ at spots, which could damage car when parking.
Also, alternate side street cleaning is not available thus trash often gets blown onto the property. Can DoT examine the vibration problem?
Adult male homeless shelter opened February 2020 has been a hotspot for crime.
Cooper Rapid Rehousing Center, managed by Westhab, shelters about 200 single men. PS91 is nearby. What do the high security cameras and barbed wire fence say about its occupants? Those men “not transitioned” or looking for a job should be relocated elsewhere. City Councilman Robert Holden demanded answers. Such data should be public and posted … Read more