Rental at 197 Himrod Street

We applied for the 2 bedroom apartment in this building about 3 weeks ago. We were informed by Alice Corporan that the property had just received the C of O and was ready to be rented. We also informed her that we did have some public assistance with our rent and that it would be guaranteed. My roommate was an Executive Assistant with a private equity group who lost his job and I just started a... [more]

We applied for the 2 bedroom apartment in this building about 3 weeks ago. We were informed by Alice Corporan that the property had just received the C of O and was ready to be rented. We also informed her that we did have some public assistance with our rent and that it would be guaranteed. My roommate was an Executive Assistant with a private equity group who lost his job and I just started a commission based Solar Sales job. We are professionals. We provided all the necessary information to secure the property and submitted an application. We were willing to accept that the building is practically over the train with no elevator or washer/dyer and is on the floor in a sketchy neighborhood because we were on PA. She told us happily that she would have the landlord's attorney look over our application (which we found rather odd) but were comforted by it because we know New York City law states that it is illegal to discriminate against source of income: http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/html/housing.html. It further spells out that this includes Public Assistance. We called her 2 days after she said she would get back to us and during the conversation she told us that the owner had not made a decision on going rental or sales. She has not contacted us since; however she was happy to take our money and has since reposted the listing for the apartment on streeteasy. We are now weighting legal options. [less]