East 17th Street & Irving Place One Bedroom Rental - Rent Stabilized Unit - Exposed Brick Wall - Access to a Shared Garden
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East 17th Street & Irving Place One Bedroom Rental - Rent Stabilized Unit - Exposed Brick Wall - Access to a Shared Garden
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It has been nearly two decades since New Yorkers faced their last doorman strike, but as the deadline for a new contract for building workers approached, the questions being posed throughout the city remained largely unchanged on Sunday.
As the possibility of a strike loomed, a doorman on Park Avenue helped with packages on Sunday.
Who will safeguard my apartment as I sleep? Greet my children when they come home from school? Accept deliveries? Clean the hallways? Sort the mail? Operate the elevator? And who, for goodness sake, will let the cleaning lady in?
Residents, co-op boards and building management companies have been busy planning for the sudden complications that could come at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday with the possible departure of the building workers who, among many other things, hold open the city’s doors.
The Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations has distributed a preparedness manual with recommendations for keeping buildings in operation in case of a strike. “A strike is not pleasant, nor should it be taken lightly,” according to the 45-page document. “During a period of work stoppage, pressures and problems develop which make building management very difficult.”
Throughout the city, security guards have already been alerted to arrive at buildings an hour before the negotiating deadline so they can take over for the first overnight shift in the event of a walkout. Many buildings would then adopt a more restrictive policy, with residents being required to use building keys, display identification to the security guards and pick up visitors or deliveries themselves. Some buildings are planning to take service elevators, storage rooms and garages out of operation if there is a strike.
“The whole operation of the building would basically be shut down and we’d rely on residents to pitch in just to get by,” said Dan Wurtzel, president of Cooper Square Realty, one of the largest residential management companies in the New York. “There’s a tremendous amount of preparation we have to undertake. Then, if it doesn’t happen, we can breathe a sign of relief. If it does happen, then we’re prepared to deal with it.”
Many buildings have also posted sign-up sheets for residents to volunteer to watch the front doors, clean hallways and take out garbage, though the forms in the lobbies of a handful of Upper East Side buildings remained mostly blank on Sunday afternoon.
Mary Ann Rothman, executive director of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums, has signed up for volunteer work in her own co-op.
“If there is a positive thing to be pulled out of this, it’s that it is an opportunity to get to know your neighbors,” she said, “and to come together to combat a little bit of adversity, because this is not the end of the world, though it may appear that way if the strike goes on.”
Arriving on Park Avenue on Sunday, Robert Neis, a marketing executive, immediately asked his doorman for assistance with the luggage from a family getaway to Shelter Island, N.Y. “It would be a bummer if they strike,” Mr. Neis said. “It’s a lot nicer when they help with the work.”
Harold Gerber, who runs a real estate business and has lived in his co-op on East 75th Street for more than two decades, said he was already worried about security, and grumbled at the prospect of hauling his own trash. “It will affect us tremendously,” he said.
Some doormen were skeptical that contract workers or volunteers would be able to take up their duties. Salvador Gonzalez, a doorman at a building on the Upper East Side, said that as the deadline approached, he has even added a new responsibility to his usual assortment of tasks: giving inquiring residents tips on how to do his job.
Though many residents on Sunday said they believed that a deal would be reached before the deadline, little progress was made during contract negotiations over the weekend, said Matt Nerzig, chief spokesman for Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.
The 30,000 residential doormen, porters, superintendents, elevator operators and handymen now earn an average of $40,500 a year, with benefits raising the total to nearly $70,000, according to the Realty Advisory Board, which represents building owners. The workers are seeking wage increases, while building owners are pushing to reduce benefit costs.
“We’re working hard, we’re talking,” Ms. Rothman said. “There’s a lot of good will on both sides and very different feelings about the current economic situation.”
“I don’t think anyone wants a strike,” she added.
West VIllage One Bedroom Rental - Walking distance to NYU and Washington Square Park - Below Market Value...RENTAL REDUCTION
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Third floor unit in a well maintained walk up building
Separate kitchen including new appliances
Large bedroom - can fit a queen size bed and extra furniture
Walking distance to NYU, Washington Square Park, Soho, the West Village, the East Village, Astor Place, and Union Square
Available for April 15th occupancy
Asking price per month - $1550
West VIllage One Bedroom Rental - Walking distance to NYU and Washington Square Park - Below Market Value...RENTAL REDUCTION
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Murray Hill Junior One Bedroom - Brand New Renovations - Below Market Value - East 33rd Street
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Murray Hill Junior One Bedroom - Brand New Renovations - Below Market Value - East 33rd Street
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Residents at 1873 Second Avenue received a temporary relocation notice informing them they will have to be out of their apartments for 30 to 60 days due to construction at the adjacent building of an air vent for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Second Avenue subway project at 1875 Second Avenue.
The letter, dated March 19, does not indicate when the residents in the 12-unit Bradford N. Swett Management-managed building between 96th and 97th streets will have to clear out of their apartments, but a spokesperson for the MTA said it hoped construction would begin some time next month (see full letter below).
"This is devastating. I don't want to move. If I move it would have to be for good and I can't afford that. I have been in this apartment for 10 years and have always paid my rent and I just can't believe something like this could happen. I heard about things like this happening in Brooklyn, but never thought it could happen to me. I know your readers are influential and I hope some of them could read this and help us," a tenant in the building, who asked for anonymity, said.
The MTA assures in the letter that it will pay for the cost of relocation, temporary housing and the restoration of their apartments.
The MTA says it will be holding a meeting for tenants to meet with O.R. Colan Associates regarding the moves.
"That building required remedial work that will improve the soil and reinforce the building," MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz told The Real Deal. He said the building was structurally weak because of preexisting conditions and the bottom wall was shifting.
The tenants will have to be out of the building while the basement wall is reinforced and the facade repaired, Ortiz said.
An employee at Bradford N. Swett Management, who did not want to be identified, said the MTA had not yet received approval from the company to perform the shoring up work.
West Village One Bedroom - West 3rd Street & Thompson - 1/2 Block Away from Washington Square Park
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West Village One Bedroom - West 3rd Street & Thompson - 1/2 Block Away from Washington Square Park
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