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WWYK: New York, New York (more)
Some loose ends, before we go on...
What's this "rent control" you hear about on television? When housing in NYC began to skyrocket, they passed legislation that rents couldn't be raised on tenants who took occupancy before a certain year. 1971 or something like that. I remember hearing that Alistair Cooke, the host of Masterpiece Theatre, had a Park Avenue penthouse for which he paid $300/month. These rent control arrangements could also be inherited, if you were a relative who grew up in that unit - if you've ever watched Friends and wondered how they could afford that place, it is mentioned once or twice that it was Monica's grandmother's. i.e. rent controled.
While it's not legal, those who have a legitimate rent controlled apartment have been known to pass it to someone else not a blood relative. Slip the super a few dollars to look the other way, etc. While it's also not legal, landlords have been known to try and get... -
WHYK: New York, New York
Good news for comic book fans: we're all born into pocket universes. We all spend our formative years in these tiny insulated bubbles populated by very few people with very similar lifestyles and beliefs. Army brats, sorry, you are no exception. Your formative years may cover more geography, but they see even less diversity in the people that surround you. PLUs, ditto. Summering in St. Barth's and learning French at the same time you learned English is a pocket universe too, but you knew that before any of us because your nanny explained it that time when you asked if her kids have a Death Star treehouse at her summer cottage in Newport. We all figure it out eventually. It's a big world out there with lots of different people believing a lot of different things and living in very different ways. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, mostly just different. Last time I checked, New York City's population was creeping up on 9 million. Well over 1 million of those are just...
