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The walls are so thin and paper like in these new buildings they have no CHOICE but to make them smoke-free. You can literally smell and hear your neighbors fart in these buildings, so cigarette smoke is gonna be 10x worse. If you wanna lol look up the 3160 building where someone moved in, started smoking, and in the first week flooded her entire downstairs neighbors apartment. You can't make this stuff up!
Please also keep in mind, most of these new affordable buildings going up are 20-35 year land grabs from deeply rich developers looking only to acquire the land and not pay taxes for the next 20-35 years. After that, they are betting (foolishly, who knows?) that the land will be worth more than the buildings and they will demolish them and building new and make more money. Building developers and architects and land owners are much smarter and always 2 steps ahead of the political hack politicians that tout this crap. I agree affordable housing IS necessary, but we're being ABUSED in this little real estate development game, it's disgusting.
The walls are so thin and paper like in these new buildings they have no CHOICE but to make them smoke-free. You can literally smell and hear your neighbors fart in these buildings, so cigarette smoke is gonna be 10x worse. If you wanna lol look up the 3160 building where someone moved in, started smoking, and in the first week flooded her entire downstairs neighbors apartment. You can't make this stuff up!
Its not just cigarette smoke.
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Originally Posted by Aquarius37
Please also keep in mind, most of these new affordable buildings going up are 20-35 year land grabs from deeply rich developers looking only to acquire the land and not pay taxes for the next 20-35 years. After that, they are betting (foolishly, who knows?) that the land will be worth more than the buildings and they will demolish them and building new and make more money. Building developers and architects and land owners are much smarter and always 2 steps ahead of the political hack politicians that tout this crap. I agree affordable housing IS necessary, but we're being ABUSED in this little real estate development game, it's disgusting.
A lot of the new building going up are no smoking buildings. Does the owner get a bigger tax incentive for making the building No smoking?
No, it is just more of the nonsense that began with Bloomberg's "nanny state" politics that got smoking banned in most indoor public spaces. Now city has moved onto private in any way that can be gotten away with legally.
People complained about their neighbors smoking caused fumes to reach their apartments and in many cases dragged said tenant and or co-op/condo board and or landlord into court. So to cut second hand smoke complaints before they start many new (and some older) buildings are just going smoke free.
What the city did do was mandate all NYC multifamily buildings must develop and post a smoking policy. They did stop short of saying what should be included however: https://www.brickunderground.com/liv...policy-law-nyc
Also a great many of these new buildings are "sealed" glass curtain construction. That and or they are very "tight" to meet NYC/NYC and federal energy guidelines.
As such any source of indoor fumes/odors or whatever is going to travel and often stick around.
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