Good news apartment hunters. When browsing for mostly overpriced residential cubicles on Craigslist, there’s also now an option to view NYC’s World Landlords Watchlist (2.0). The Google Map mashup was launched by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and is a handy way to see just show slummy some of the city’s landlords are.
New York City’s Public Advocate, Bill de Blasio launched a new website that will delight tenants and disgust landlords. It’s a landlord watch list that names some of the city’s worst offenders. See if yours made the list.
Officials are making a whole slew of changes to the city’s constitution, but New Yorkers don’t seem to know anything about it. The Office of the Public Advocate cut a video that should, at the very least, shame Gotham residents into at least a Google search. Read more »
Park Slope Councilmember Bill DeBlasio is back on the ballot for the city’s Public Advocate seat after a technical glitch briefly disqualified him. In reinstating the politician and his 132 folders worth of petition signatures, which were mistakenly counted at 131, the president of the Board of Elections admitted, “It was our own process that negatively impacted the candidate.” |NYT|
Park Slope Councilmember Bill DeBlasio is off the ballot for the city’s public advocate race because his campaign miscounted his volumes of petition signatures, claiming there were 131 instead of 132. This technical glitch was enough to make the politician’s 125,000 signatures, 17 times more than necessary, worthless, at least until his lawyers resolve the typo. |Brooklyn Paper|
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