Scott Rogowsky, the UCB fixture last seen attempting to feed the “homeless (hipsters)” of McCarren Park and the gym bunnies of the East Village, is back with a new hidden camera video. This time the setup is pretty simple: he goes into some of the newer luxury buildings off of Bedford Avenue and asks doormen and sales agents how the hell anyone can afford to live in them. Needless to say, they’re at a loss for an answer — and no, they don’t let him crash in the yoga room.
Housing + Development
Think Steve Croman Is a Bad Landlord? Wait’ll You See Klaus Kinski in Crawlspace
Today elected officials put out a joint statement complaining of the “pattern of tenant harassment” that has caused landlord Steve Croman to be investigated by the State District Attorney. But if you think Croman is a lousy landlord, wait’ll you Crawlspace, one of a dozen Klaus Kinski films that Anthology Film Archives is screening in the next week.
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Yippie Building Becoming a Boxing Gym As Court Fight Goes Another Round
9 Bleecker. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)
A location of Crunch just opened at 2 Cooper Square, and now this: a boxing gym is set to replace the Yippie! Museum at 9 Bleecker Street, a building that long housed outspoken lefties like pot activist Dana Beal.
A lawyer involved in ongoing litigation over the building confirmed that it’s a done deal.
“The court appointed receiver performed his duty and signed a long-term lease with a tenant that will be running a boxing gym out of the premises,” said attorney Steven L. Einig, who represents the building’s lender Centech LLC, which last year sued the building’s owners, Yippie Holdings and the National AIDS Brigade. “I understand that the tenant is a local resident and now the rent is going to paid, the building, which was quite run down, will be cleaned up and no longer vacant.”
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AirBNB Agrees to Turn Over Anonymized (At First) Host Data
After six months of combative back and forth, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and AirBNB have come to an agreement that will allow the apartment-rental site to turn over anonymized data regarding its users and out them by name only if they become the subject of an investigation.
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Judge Rules AirBNB Doesn’t Have to Out Its Users — Yet
If you’ve been renting your apartment out to, say, local filmmakers, you can breathe easy.
AirBNB has announced, in a letter to hosts, that the New York Supreme Court has rejected Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s request for a subpoena that would’ve outed the names and addresses of its users.
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Tags: airbnb, Housing + Development
Williamsburgers, Look Out For Raining Bricks
(Photo: Amanda Waldroupe)
A stretch of Meserole Street is closed to traffic this afternoon, as the fire department and the Department of Buildings examines a row house that’s threatening to shed some of its facade.
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Tags: Greenpoint, Housing + Development
Watch This Trippy Reimagination of the Domino Site Before You See Kara Walker’s
Tomorrow, Kara Walker’s monumental installation in the Domino Sugar Factory, “A Subtlety” (or “The Marvelous Sugar Baby”) will be unveiled to the general public at the Domino Sugar Factory (sorry, you missed Creative Time’s preview dinner with folks like Chuck Close and Jenna Lyons of J. Crew, who played Hannah’s boss at GQ in Girls).
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Ian Schrager Is the First to Take Retail Space at 51 Astor
Ian Schrager is the latest to move into the East Village’s “Death Star” building, Bedford + Bowery has learned.
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A Wine Bar and a San Loco Are Opening in Williamsburg’s Marbleworks Lofts
The finishing touches are being put on Sort Of wine bar. (Photo: Elizabeth Flock)
A former marble factory on the corner of Metropolitan and Driggs is about to get a biodynamic wine bar, a new location of San Loco and a massive urgent care center.
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Where Old Folks Lived, a Kindergarten Blooms On Avenue B
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
The New Amsterdam School, a Waldorf-inspired nursery, pre-K and kindergarten school, is moving into the first floor space of Bloom62, Ben Shaoul’s fancy-schmancy luxury condos that replaced the Cabrini nursing home.
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