‘Chirp’ Your Property Price
If you have ever taken a cab in New York City, chances are you have seen advertisements for Bid on the City, a real estate service that lets you bid on high-end commercial and residential properties in New York City. If the owner accepts your bid on a property, which is typically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, you get to purchase it.
REchirp.com works with a similar concept: Interested buyers or renters go to the website, browse the listings and make a bid or a “chirp.” If your chirp is accepted by the owner, you get to start negotiations. Read more
Jewish Home Land Swap
Representatives from Jewish Home Lifecare, an organization that provides health care for seniors, met with community groups on Aug. 12 to unveil a proposal to redevelop its West 106th Street nursing home in Park West Village, on West 100th Street.
To bankroll the new nursing home, a project that has long been in the works and was originally planned for the south side of West 106th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, Jewish Home was going to sell part of its property to a developer. Read more
Jewish Home Land Swap
Representatives from Jewish Home Lifecare, an organization that provides health care for seniors, met with community groups on Aug. 12 to unveil a proposal to redevelop its West 106th Street nursing home in Park West Village, on West 100th Street.
To bankroll the new nursing home, a project that has long been in the works and was originally planned for the south side of West 106th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, Jewish Home was going to sell part of its property to a developer. Read more
Graffiti Be Gone
In an effort to paint over more graffiti on private property, Council Member Gale Brewer introduced a bill that would allow the city to remove the graffiti without a property owner’s permission.
The city removes graffiti for free with trucks that quickly blast paint over graffiti-laden security gates and walls. But graffiti-busting officers in local police precincts must first canvass the streets to get property or business owners to sign waivers.
“Police officers work toward getting them, but they take forever—it takes almost six months,” Brewer said.
On June 23, her office organized a clean-up day focused on 55 sites throughout the Upper West Side. The Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit provided 27 graffiti removal trucks.
The proposed legislation would expedite the process and give owners the option of choosing to keep any graffiti they consider artwork by notifying the city.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed his support for the bill.
“We’re cleaning more graffiti faster than ever before, and working with the City Council, we are going to introduce legislation to make it easier and more efficient to continue doing that,” he said in a statement. Photo by Tina Varghese
