The Helena trick or treat

Already been posted, and debunked. Here is a list of 1-bedroom archived listings at The Helena, from nybits.com:

http://www.nybits.com/apartmentlistings/the_helena_archived_rentals.html

NOT A SINGLE ON ANYWHERE NEAR THAT PRICE - they hover around $3k a month. During that time they had a TWO BEDROOM listed for under $5k a month.

http://www.nybits.com/apartmentlistings/31a1e06e32a0a6f0b1228c4bd543d221.html

More NY Times Realtwhore Shill Trash. When will you people learn?

The Helena's asking prices have actually gone DOWN since 2008. In fact, they're DOWN from 2007.

Just more crap reporting.

Sounds like the Durst Group came out predatory in the article. Anyone else have a Durst story?

streetview
about 1 hour ago
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report abuse Sounds like the Durst Group came out predatory in the article. Anyone else have a Durst story?

perhaps this tenant was less than desireable. good way to clear the books of someone you don't want in the building anymore. he downsized to a $1600 apartment on 1st in the 80's? something sounds weird in that to me.

just one but, first I'll have to slip into this cocktail dress.

for those not in the know
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/09/robert_durst_the_millionaire_c.php

In other cities when someone is raised that high of a percentage, it usually means management does not want that person in the building. Of course most other cities didn't have rent controll or rent stabilization so they learned how to eject people that much sooner. It's tacky, but quick.

shouldn't the NYT print a retraction?

Bill7284
about 4 hours ago
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report abuse In other cities when someone is raised that high of a percentage, it usually means management does not want that person in the building. Of course most other cities didn't have rent controll or rent stabilization so they learned how to eject people that much sooner. It's tacky, but quick.

It means the same exact thing here.

jim_hones10
about 5 hours ago
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report abuse streetview
about 1 hour ago
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report abuse Sounds like the Durst Group came out predatory in the article. Anyone else have a Durst story?

perhaps this tenant was less than desireable. good way to clear the books of someone you don't want in the building anymore. he downsized to a $1600 apartment on 1st in the 80's? something sounds weird in that to me.

julia
5 minutes ago
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report abuse shouldn't the NYT print a retraction?

for what?

>It's tacky, but quick.

tacky?

oh snap?

By the way, why does someone want to live at the corner of 57th Street and New Jersey?

5 minutes ago
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report abuse By the way, why does someone want to live at the corner of 57th Street and New Jersey?

I was thinking that too, then I thought of great stuff like the intrepid museum and aren't there a number of strip clubs there too?

Yes, and a bowling alley.

that's right. i see it when i bike along the river

The Helena is in an awful location, no transportation anywhere nearby, a thousand mile trek to the nearest tube. It was always overpriced and it still is considering where it is and the size of the units there, though they seem to have come back to reality a bit.

"that's right. i see it when i bike along the river"

isn't that the wrong river? wouldn't you be biking along the east river? living on the ues, as you do

lucille, i don't live on the ues. i live on the east side, but the funny thing about bicycles are that you can start somewhere and end up somewhere else.

not your sharpest comment honey

so you admit sometimes i do make sharp comments. thanks jim, that's nice of you.

Are you two Lucy and Ricky, or Fred and Ethel?

As i said -Let's be clear - the guy who works for me talked the Helena down $100 per month AND got a free month. This all on Friday, October 14, 2011. 2 days ago!!!! $2850 net for a one bedroom. So the very anecdote meant to frame this story is false.

>As i said -Let's be clear - the guy who works for me talked the Helena down $100 per month AND got a free month.

Shout it from the rooftops Jason, you have an employee who lives in a nice one bedroom that he rents cheap, and you are double bolting the doors in your tenement apartment because you couldn't negotiate a good deal anywhere else in town. How soon before you work for him?

>isn't that the wrong river? wouldn't you be biking along the east river? living on the ues, as you do

East side not nearly as attractive a path as the west side.

hey huntersburg!

huntersburg
21 minutes ago
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report abuse >isn't that the wrong river? wouldn't you be biking along the east river? living on the ues, as you do

East side not nearly as attractive a path as the west side.

This is true. I've developed an acute UWS envy lately. Perhaps my next neighborhood, not only for the Park(s), but the general vibe I get, especially with a kid.

Hello lucille.

The east side is almost shameful. The east side view over the river is better than the west side view over the river, but living far east is not attractive, with only a few exceptions, downtown - if that's your thing - and possibly Beekman and Sutton, but there, the parks are few and far between, in contrast to Riverside park. My opinion.

jim is moving to the uws! my old hood! whaaa

lucillebluth
4 minutes ago
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report abuse jim is moving to the uws! my old hood! whaaa

not necessarily. i have a great apartment. and i do live in a lovely neighborhood. the school (when it comes gets built and eventually comes on line) is highly ranked already (existing school in a different location for the moment). wholefood will be in the same building as the new school. i walk to work, my wife is a 15 minute commute. but i do like what i see on the uws.

what does she do again?

finance. why?

just curious. how is her green card situation?

we're married lucille. we have a child. she's as american as you or I are. did you think she was an illegal immigrant?

right, the south american wife you would have to marry to let her stay. right i forgot. so where do you live where you guys have this fantastic commute?

lucillebluth
less than a minute ago
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report abuse right, the south american wife you would have to marry to let her stay. right i forgot. so where do you live where you guys have this fantastic commute?

i thought you remembered everything? i didn't have to marry her to let her stay. i'm sure it helped. she was gainfully employed and here legally when I met her.

we live in the east 50's

now i remember, absolutely. flaked out for a second.

where are you from lucille? what is your husbands legal status?

academic credentials: university of nowhere. magna cum laude

actually that's none of your business, since i don't repeatedly proclaim how hot my south american husband it.

cc, don't so hard on yourself. UofN will pick up steam eventually and that degree will count for something! just think of yourself as a founding father of the school.

too revealing. be more careful in the future.

What is UofN?

lucille, you should have just said he wasn't here legally. i can help, i know an immigration attorney. didn't need to use him myself, but he's got an office on broadway and 28th, so i know he's good.

"too revealing. be more careful in the future."

what my shirt? so don't look, you pervert! eyes up here, grandpa

and don't got to Alabama with him for the love of god.

is that a new sex act i don't know about?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/10/14/natpkg-alabama-immigration-folo.cnn?iref=allsearch

there are apparently alot of things you don't know about Lucille. For such a smart girl with a photographic memory.

oh i see, thank you, jim. mistake was mine because i thought you were trying to rec lawyer for my divorce! but i actually have a very good one already as does Mr. Bluth. and the alabama reference, i thought you were being your usual sweet self and trying in your own way to help save my marriage by teaching me a whorish sex trick your corazon does to shut you up when shit hits the fan at the hones crib. thank you jim, it's a little more complicated than that. both Mr.Bluth and I will love you tomorrow and all the other days just as much as we love you today. this is good for all of us, jim. one day we will look back on this day and realize it was the first day of the rest of our lives.