Stay away from this one

"An ex bought in there recently and is ready jump out the window."

So, if you are worried about your ex jumping out the window, I take it you are the one RECIEVING alimony, because if you were PAYING, the jump might be a good thing.

FYI..If you really want to trash a building, best to post multiple times and mention mouse infestations.

There are mice in NYC? I thought that was an urban myth, like alligators in the sewers. And fully grown tigers in public housing in Harlem.

http://gothamist.com/2003/10/06/tiger_tiger.php

Jim, no reason to assume ex-spouse; "an ex" is most likely an ex-boy/girlfriend, no reason to assume alimony is involved.

jimstreeteasy, do you live there? My condolences, baby.

I don't live there.

One would have thought that this many people living in a few square miles using all manner of chemicals to clean their abodes and themselves would have killed all living things. But mice are resilient. I saw a squirrel or two in Tompkins park that was the color of a rat.

whatever happened to palimony?...

beholder, are you sure you mean 50 W. 106th? That's a 16-story prewar doorman building, and doesn't seem to be HDFC. I've been in it in the past, and it seems very well-run.

As for families of 4 in 1BRs, while not ideal, it doesn't seem so wrong for an affordable-housing coop.

Was looking it up yesterday. The co-op's corporate name includes "Housing Development Fund", so is/was HDFC. (No clue what that implies.)

Apparently the city took it for taxes a long time ago, as there're deeds from the owners to the finance dept, from them to NYC, from them to some agency, and finally to the co-op.

alanheart, 50 w 106th is HDFC. Managed by David Associates. Call them.

NWT: it implies income restrictions, weird boards, artificially lowered maint., difficulties in re-sale, and the cherry on the cake -- 15% flip tax. The minute they tweak the HDFC thing, the maintenance goes up 200%.

There are some weird HDFC-esque co-ops out there. The Grinnell, 800RSD, is such a beast. Apts there can go for 1m+, yet there is an income restriction in place (I was told that there was some tax benefit to the building). This isn't right, obviously for 1m+ apts to have this kind of tax benefit (w/o at least the sop of buying abatements).

What's more, there shouldn't be any tax benefits for a building where there are no more "original" buyers (who got the apartments for $500). Once there are resales, no tax benefits. Somehow we're paying for thus.
Especially with this new property tax jump.