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Daily News, New York, real estate column.
Publication: Daily News (New York, New York) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 31-OCT-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Daily News
Byline: Judith Schoolman
Oct. 31--With all the hubbub about exploding co-op prices, New York is still a city of renters. Landlords control two-thirds of all properties, some 2.1 million units, from multi-bedroom apartments with river views to single rooms.
Even with some of the country's strongest tenant laws, landlord-tenant tensions appear to be part of the New York landscape. And, says State Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell of Manhattan, they represent half of all the problems that constituents bring to his office.
Concerns "range from quality of life, such as the elevator is broken or the building isn't kept clean, to people facing eviction due to rent," O'Donnell said.
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