Duchess of Carnegie, 96, refuses to leave home ($650/mo rent; wants $10 MIL)

CNN ^ | 12/29/2008 | Ashley Fantz

[library user]

Do you think it’s rent-controlled?

[Gaffer]

I read the article and all I can say to ‘Editta’ who occupies an entire rent-controlled ($650/month) floor is tough $hit, Edita! You, along with the rest of the diletentes in NYC, wanted ‘change’ -— now you have it. It’s time you started paying your ‘fair share’.

[Tax-chick]

have enjoyed rent-stabilized bliss

[neodad]

Typical. Do as I say, not as I do. Pay your rent!

[griswold3]

She’s 96 years old. Let her stay!
The lost revenue from bad publicity will hurt worse!

[FocusNexus]

"Carnegie Hall has offered to pay for the rent-control tenants' relocation expenses and move them to apartments which are "equivalent or better" in the neighborhood. The Hall also is offering to pay the difference in rent to each of those tenants for the rest of their lives.

"We have asked Editta to come and look at spaces with us," Carlino told CNN.

But Sherman and her like-minded neighbors are not budging."

Why do tenants have more right to the apartment, than the owner. This is not just a fair deal, but an exceedingly generous one and the tenants think they have some kind of right to the apartments they are RENTING!

[MahatmaGandu]

She should be kicked out on the street for her act of trying to extort $10mil from the taxpayers.

[Red in Blue PA]

It’s bizarre in NYC. Up is down.

[IYAS9YAS]

Do you think it’s rent-controlled?

From the article: "enjoyed rent-stabilized bliss..."

Rent control, another failed liberal program designed to take from the producers/providers and give to those who don't.

[pepperdog]

Who does she pay the $650 to? A private citizen or the City of NY?

[lewisglad]

Change has come! Bye, Edna...

[Philo-Junius]

Now, now.

If we don’t honour her rent-controlled status, think of the disruption to the war effort. We might never bring the Nazis down!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

There's no bad publicity in my opinion. All I see is an extremely selfish, wealthy old woman who is trying to hold Carnegie Hall for ransom. The elderly can be just as self-centered and money-grubbing as young people. She is a perfect example of the corrupt swamp that is the New York City rent-controlled apartment market.

[wardaddy]

Wonder if Sandy Weil will do as a good a job on Carnegie Hall as he did driving Citibank into the dirt.

He’s also a buttbuddy with Bob Rubin.

This lady may not have a firm grasp of the reality she’s facing from these wolves.

[Tax-chick]

... the Hall's chairman Sanford Weill who wants to expand the education classrooms for more than 115,000 music and art students.

Weill's son-in-law, Natan Bibliowicz, has been hired to design the studio spaces above the hall in a $150 million expansion, and taxpayers will reportedly foot part of the bill because New York state granted $5 million to cover design and planning costs, according to the New York Times.

I'm on Editta's side, compared to these crooks.

[shadeaud]

How could she stand living there with all that noise coming from the main floor and constant flow of people in penguin suits hobnobbing outside. This poor woman probably couldn't get a Ruben delivered from the Carnegie Deli without someone spilling her Cel-Ray. I won't even begin to talk about how difficult it must have been for her to keep the place clean. I can just imagine how much pigeon dung is cemented onto her skylight. Thank goodness the City has stepped up to the plate and now will relocate her, maybe to a nice one bedroom in the South Bronx.

[FocusNexus]

THIS is what they are offering her and she doesn’t want to cooperate.

“Carnegie Hall has offered to pay for the rent-control tenants’ relocation expenses and move them to apartments which are “equivalent or better” in the neighborhood. The Hall also is offering to pay the difference in rent to each of those tenants for the rest of their lives.”

[massgopguy]

There’s only one way to get her to come down. Cecil B. DeMille will have to bring in a movie set downstairs. Then when she walks in on camera for her close-up, you throw the net over her.

[griswold3]

Did you see the piece they did on her apartment and her life? Seems it’s a facinating massive historical collection to me.
She’s not going to be there that much longer , if you know what I mean.