Erin McFadzen and her boyfriend, Erik Clancy, are literally caged in on their terrace.
Photo: Brigitte Stelzer
[From article]
“Every time someone comes over, I have to explain why the fence is there . . . and tell them we’re rent stabilized, like it’s a badge I have to wear,” she said.
McFadzen’s boyfriend, Erik Clancy, who also lives in the two-bedroom pad, is outraged, too.
“I can’t imagine them saying [to market-rate tenants], ‘You get this beautiful view of Manhattan behind a giant metal fence,’ ” he said.
[. . .]
“It has come to our clients’ attention that you are exceeding your area of usage,” attorney William Slochowsky wrote on Oct. 28 — days after Q41 held a ribbon-cutting attended by Comptroller Scott Stringer, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and others.
The terrace is part of the building’s sixth-floor pedestal, with wooden dividers providing about eight units with private decks.
[. . .]
Once a stalled condo project, the 17-story building was revived by the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s Housing Asset Renewal Program. The city doled out $7.6 million in subsidies and, with Bank of America, provided $28 million in low-interest construction loans to Queensboro.
All but eight of the 117 units in the 41st Avenue tower are “affordable” middle-income pads, with $1,103-a-month studios and two-bedrooms costing as much as $2,186 a month.
The fenced terraces have drawn comparisons to “Poor Doors,” separate entrances for low-income tenants living in luxury buildings.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/07/luxury-bulding-fences-off-rent-stabilized-tenants-terraces/
Luxury building fences off low-rent tenants’ terraces
By Kate Briquelet
New York Post
December 7, 2014 | 1:24am
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