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Don’t Move to 70 Greene Street
We were one of the first tenants in the building when it opened last summer. We were promised that the pool and gym (twoof the main reasons that we selected this property) would be open before summer’s end. This promise continued month in and month out. The pool wasn’t opened until labor day weekend. We used it once. Throughout the year we experienced innumerable issues with the building. Leaks, fire alarms constantly, flooding in the gym, the lobby and consequential mold, a horrible smell coming from our office that we were eventually told was from the ‘garbage chute on the higher floors.’ Our washer had to be replaced three times. Throughout all of these issues, we still kept a smile on our faces and particularly enjoyed the doormen. We thought that because the price was ‘fair,’ that it was worth the hiccups. That was until yesterday. We received our lease renewal letter only to find that the ‘fair’ monthy rent had been increased more than $700 – or 30%. Before moving to 70 Greene, I had lived in Portside Towers, another Equity Property, for 3 years. I can’t think of how much money I have poured into them over the past 4 years. We feel robbed. After expressing concerns, I was told that, ‘2 other tenants renewed at this rate.’ Well, thanks – I’m thrilled for them to be able to easily give up another 700 a month without blinking in this horrible economy, but unfortunately, it doesn’t help us. How can this be legal?
Don’t Shy Away from Social Media, Embrace it
The age of hiding behind aliases for your various online accounts is behind us. With the exception of private information such as your bank account of course. Social Media is one of the best ways of performing PR for yourself and managing the content that’s found about you when you’re searched for online. Instead of letting others decide what’s posted about you, why not take it upon yourself to actually post relevant information about yourself under your own disgretion. Every social media platform has preferences that allow you to limit what’s available to the public and what’s picked up by search engine queries.
1 Billion Apps downloaded off iTunes
Just a few minutes ago, 1 billion iPhone/iPod Touch applications were downloaded off of Apple’s iTunes. That’s pretty impressive considering that the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade enabling developers to build applications for the device only happened 9 months ago. I myself have downloaded quite a few of them, as well as bought a couple which I found either useful or entertaining. I’m still addicted to TouchGrind, which I wrote about a few weeks back.
What is Web 2.0 What was Web 1.0 and What will Web 3.0 be
Version numbers are a funny thing. To developers they begin as Alphas, followed by Betas; all pre 1.0 releases. These initial pre-release terms aim to organize the development workflow through various testing phases of the project at hand, in order to satisfy a final 1.0 public release; Also known as a Golden Beta. To the general public, version numbers typically don’t appear until version 2 comes out. In other words, no one cares about a 1.0 release as a version, since there’s no prior version to compare it to. Take the Hummer for example, now at version 3, coin phrased the H3. The initial Hummer, now referred to as the H1, wasn’t marketed to the public as the H1 Hummer until Hummer H2 and H3 came out.
