Daniel Ohebshalom turned himself in Thursday to begin a 60-day jail sentence after being found in contempt of court, after blowing off officials' orders for years.
Upon arrival, not even 24 hours later, Ohebshalom was allegedly punched in the face by another inmate at the intake area of the prison, according to a NYC Department of Corrections (DOC) spokesperson.
Having run into a few of these "land lords" many years ago in the NYC area all I can say is the name fits the occupation.
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DeleteThe other side of the shekel is that the Landlord provides a valuable service - he houses the marginal, the underperforming. The City of New York still has rent control laws imposed during WW2, it is a tough business to make money in until you sell the building, and even then...
DeleteI cannot defend the dirtbag landlord and his inaction. Note well that tenants are often not the cleanest or most fastidious. They let garbage accumulate, disrespect common areas. I have seen used condoms and needles in the hallways. Vandalism. NYC renters are a lower form of life if they choose to remain so. Actual humans aspire to escape and own a home somewhere, maybe a co-op or condo. You can be the cleanest tenant, and if one other tenant in that building is a dirty MF-er, you get his rodents, his cockroaches. They throw grease down drains, generating downstream problems for others. Then there is the city bureaucracy. Long-term tenants are a different species, different thought process, different values. I don't hate them for it, I just don't want to be one of them.
And, in a lot of New York, the landlords and property owners can't charge the going rate as the government has enacted price controls, diversity rent requirements and other things that make being a landlord in NYFC a hell on this earth, and most landlords and propery owners can't get rid of the properties.
DeleteJust because he's a dirtbag doesn't mean that the NYFC government hadn't bent him over more times monetarily than a 30 second continuous loop of Ned Beatty squealing like a pig.
Are we allowed to play "guess the race" with Mr. O'HeebShalom? Sounds kinda Irish to me.
ReplyDeleteEconomist Assar Lindbeck once remarked that rent control “appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”
ReplyDeleteYou can rebuild after bombing. There's no recovering from Rent Control and Diversity Renting Requirements.
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