Behold: New York City's luckiest man lives in this seven floor Harlem building, where he pays a dollar per month thanks to an apparent years-long bureaucratic oversight
Posted on 08/13/2013 8:22:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thanks to a little error on the part of the city of New York and a lot of blind luck, a Manhattan man pays the bargain basement rate of $1 per month in rent for his apartment.
David Lieberman moved into the pad on Morningside Boulevard, an in demand section of up-and-coming Harlem, in 2006 and paid $2,100, market rate at the time for the two bedroom apartment.
But since learning that the city lowered the rent to a buck for previous tenants while they waited for damages from a fire to be repaired, Lieberman has laid claim to the cheapest rent in the Big Apple.
Though he probably didn't feel that way when former tenants Sonya McNair Tonge and Deryck Tonge sued him, along with landlord Baruch Singer, in order to get back into the rental.
The Tonges paid $436 per month for the rent stabilized apartment until fire damages forced them out and the city allowed them to pay just $1 a month as a sort of placeholder.
But the repairs were completed in 2005 and the couple was allegedly never invited to move back in.
Instead, the apartment was listed at market price via Craigslist and that's how 30-year-old Liberman wound up there.
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Liberals! Idiots, all of them, including the rent control board.
I heard that even Jackie O’Kennedy’s pad was rent controlled.
She must have sub-letted from Rev. Sharpton.
Rent control is illegal and invalid. No government agency has any right to control private transactions.
Nothing so permanent as an “emergency” measure put in place during WW II. . .
Who says (economic) slavery isn’t alive and well so many years after the War of Northern Aggression?
Looks like a a-hole.
We have over 50,000 homeless right now. Do you really want to add the renters of over a million apartments to this problem? Come and live here and then tell me that would be good for the city.
Simple math: more tenants than landlords vote...
And, to misquote “Ghostbusters”, you’ve gained the approval of millions of registered voters. . . (grin)
...so get YOUR next apartment on Beezid.com
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