Posted on 04/03/2015 1:55:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A Manhattan apartment house’s policy of letting only high-paying tenants use its gym may be discriminatory, according to New York City’s Human Rights Commission.
A notice filed Thursday says there’s enough evidence of age discrimination to merit a hearing on the Stonehenge Village complex’s gym rule. According to tenant Jean Green Dorsey‘s complaint, the rent-regulated tenants excluded from the gym are largely over 65, while market-rate tenants aren’t.
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If you don’t pay for the gym, you can’t use the gym.
Simple, except for a liberal then it’s a deep conundrum that only anger and protest until they get their way will solve.
They’ll have to hammer this one out according to the weirdness that is NYC law.
Is there something keeping them from selling day passes or memberships to the economy set? (I would not be surprised.)
And most are over 65, so all the equipment and access must be handicap accessible or they’ll sue for that too. And then when one falls and breaks a hip ala Harry Reid, they’ll get sued for that.
Just do away with the gym. Then everyone is “equal” and “happy”.
limiting the gym to those who pay for it is discriminatory??
Why limit meals at a restaurant or groceries to those who pay for it?
They will have to make the gym a paid membership or something and give the high-renters a bit of a discount or something
In college a neighbor moved out and we removed his cable line, running it down to our apartment. Figured we would get free cable till a new tenant moved in.
Cable company salesman comes by a month later, sees our jerry-rigged installation and asks if we wanted to start paying for it.
My roommate says: "pay for it? Hell the reception is crap half the time!"
The response was classic: "Sir, people who pay, get service."
Is it in the lease? Low rent leases might be written differently.
“Human rights commission”....
We must not accept this. We must learn to be intolerant. We must move away from one sided Christian teachings that push only pacifism. We must become intolerant of evil behavior.
Get loud, angry, obnoxious. Get right in peoples faces and back them down.
Cause if we don’t we’re going to end up having to kill them in a few years. Unless of course you think that dying in a concentration camp and letting evil proliferate will be better for humankind.
Not even subsidized by government- they’re rent-controlled, which is far worse from the landlord’s perspective.
I must be missing something here....
(Not unusual for me in articles about “NYC rent control”.)
Was there always a gym, and suddenly the “rent controlled” people were not allowed to use it?
Or is it a new feature, not included on the old leases?
I can’t ever figure out the concept of “rent control” either.......all I know is whenever someone on “Law & Order” who lives in a rent controlled apartment dies.....it was usually the evil greedy building owner/manager who wanted to refurb and sell the units as condominiums at [gasp] a profit that murdered them.
I guess the only question would be if there was a provision for them to be able to purchase the privilege. I can't use the "preferred customer" areas of the airport but I could if I wished to spend the bucks that would entitle me to it.
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