Check out these photos of a riser taken earlier this week at Manhattan House. The door to this apartment, which is currently being renovated, was left open and a resident took the pictures. The asbestos surrounding the pipe is clearly visible!
This is inexcusable. Families with children live on this floor. Workers handling the asbestos are not being given proper safeguards.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Monday, January 07, 2008
Manhattan House headache
Excerpted from "Playing by a new set of rules for condo conversions"
The Real Deal, January 2008, by David Jones
After settling a bitter legal dispute with former co-owner Richard Kalikow, developer Jerry O’Connor put together an ambitious plan to convert Manhattan House into a hotel-quality luxury residence, with spa facilities, a resident manager with 65 on-site concierge staff, valet parking, a children’s play center and a 10,000-square-foot rooftop lounge.
But that conversion isn’t moving as smoothly as the developer would like, due in part to tenant complaints. Manhattan House tenants complain that the building suffers from extensive flooding, asbestos contamination, rodents and other problems that the management is trying to cover up.
In an amended filing, Manhattan House officials boosted the insider discount to tenants by 10 points to 25 percent. Only three of the first 15 sales came from insiders, according to the tenants’ group.
Article 78 ruling
Judge Lewis Bart Stone has ruled Manhattan House tenants have no legal standing to file an Article 78 proceeding to halt the owner's condominium plan.
David Rozenholc, attorney for the Manhattan House Tenants Group, said the decision is wrong and contrary to New York State law decided in 1975. The decision will be appealed.
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