Can you have a satellite dish on a tall big apartment building such as North Bronx, NY?
Yes, as long as you have a clear view to the south. If you are on the North side of the building you have a problem. The FCC ruled that satellite dishes are appurtenances normal to residential living and cannot be forbidden by homeowners association rules and covenants. I do not know if the ruling also pertains to privately owned apartment buildings. It may not. But you may be able to make a non-permanent dish installation such as on a balcony or shooting through a window. You will have to check it out locally.
Renting my first apartment in New York City?
When you find a apartment it all depends of your landlord as far as what you can do with the place. Like for walls, your landlord might say you can paint, but only light colors. My brother just rented a place and the landlord said he could do whatever he wanted but his last landlord didnt let him do anything so it all depends. as far as apartment vs. townhouse. NYC apartments are expensive but townhouses are even more expensive. It depends on how much money you have. Townhouses are nicer but more pricey. Hope this helps.
You can have large sweeping glass windows in both types of construction.Cost of such windows or glazing is independent of the type of construction of the building.Size of windows are not limited by type of structure unless it is a highly specialized structure.As mentioned by Isaac Gaetz concrete structures are generally less expensive.Cost of steel structures tend to be about 15% more for high rise buildings over (10-15 floors) , these figures vary quite a bit as steel prices are known to fluctuate quite frequently.However if speed of construction is important, steel structures increasingly have an advantage, specially when you see onsite construction time. Many times this saving in time offsets increase in capital cost.Cost of construction also depends on labour cost. Concrete requires less skilled labour which is easily available, specially in places like China, India and Dubai. Labour costs are far less too than say US or Europe, so concrete is a natural choice in these countries.Steel structures are great for large projects requiring large column free spans (distance between columns). Steel columns also tend to take far less space than concrete ones (since they are thinner) leading to an increase in usable area internally.However, steel structures would make a very poor choice for villa projects.So I guess, it's completely project specific depending on type, scale, timeframe, location and design of the project.
no problem. Unit should operate at 100-120V(common actual socket voltage ranges) without issues. In fact most(if not all?) US states use the NEMA convention set at 120V@60Hz.If it didn't work, they wouldn't be allowed to sell it as they would put public safety at risk.
Legal to have a camera inside an apartment building on the outside of your apartment door ? In New York ?
I live in New York , in an apartment building with 5 apartments in the building . The landlord doesn't have any cameras installed in the building, however the a tenant on the 2nd floor has placed 2 cameras on the outside of her apartment door, one facing her door and the other facing the stairway going up to the 3rd floor which is where I live. I have to pass her door to get to my apartment , so she can see every time I come in and out my apartment because the camera faces the stair case, my question is , is this legal ?
Are apartments in New York normally so luxurious?
It's the movies. Movies also portray countries in Eastern Europe and Asia to be poor, dilapidated and full of Mafia-type characters ready to kidnap tourists, but that's clearly not true, either, or no one would ever travel there. Usually apartments in New York are small and over-priced. In Brooklyn you might find something a little larger, as well as in Queens, but it will doubtfully have french doors, walk in closets and six rooms like the movies portray Manhattan apartments to have. These amenities are usually found in penthouse apartments in the Upper West Side, where people like Donald Trump and old socialites reside. Normal, everyday students, middle class residents or struggling 20-somethings never live in places like this - unless they just signed a multi-million dollar record deal. I always laugh when I'm in a bar and I meet a poor girl (or guy) who just moved here and signed a lease for an apartment in SoHo, Chelsea or the Upper East Side because they saw Sex and the City and thought it would be possible to work as freelance sex-columnist and afford a one bedroom apartment in Manhattan and buy a new pair of Jimmie Choos everyday. I don't know how some people live in the deluded little world of theirs, but it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
You can tell from the answers here that it varies wildly. I don't think there's any meaningful average.I live in a new building in Long Island City, Queens. 2 bedrooms. About 850 sq feet. We pay between $150-400/month on electric. Our building is poorly insulated and heat is not included, unlike most older buildings. Also, unlike most buildings in NYC, our heat is electric baseboard heating.
Is it landlord or tenant responsibility to install the carpet?
in case you have babies, and you have been nervous through wellness risks, why did you in basic terms do away with a "section" of carpet? Why no longer the entire subject? How do you be attentive to the carpet is 20 years old? It does not extremely count style how old the carpet is, what concerns is you got rid of a component of it. The carpet is meant to be interior an identical undertaking, (minus usual placed on and tear) because it replaced into once you moved in. Taking a component of carpet, isn't "usual." so a techniques as your enhancements, that replaced into your determination, no longer your landlords. you in all probability placed the fence up due on your babies or pets, the fan on account which you had to maintain cool, and paint on account which you needed distinctive colors, or you had to freshen it up slightly. in case you lived in that abode that long (6.5 yrs.) interestingly that the carpet "wellness threat" did no longer undertaking you sufficient to bypass out. And why replaced into it a "wellness threat".i do no longer think of legally that he could make you carpet the entire floor of the abode at finished value, yet he can in all probability value you a minimum of a million/2. incredibly in case you haven't any longer have been given any stamp dated pictures, or no longer something in writing signed by utilising the owner with regard to the undertaking the carpets have been in once you moved in.
The luxury apartment house was actually invented in New York in the late 19th century. Upper-class New Yorkers lived in townhouses and single-family mansions during the 19th century.In 1882 The Dakota was the first luxury apartment house. It was named The Dakota because it was so far north 72nd Street it might as well have been in Dakota Territory.To lure potential tenants, developers borrowed the word "apartment" from the French to make the new buildings sound more fashionable. The word and the lifestyle stuck.Apartment house living spread from New York to the rest of the country. By the 1930's 90% of Manhattanites were living in apartments.An apartment is a unit in a multi-family building. It can be in a condo coop or rental building. Condominium, cooperative or rental refer to the type of ownership.A townhouse is usually 3-5 stories. Most were originally built as single family homes but townhouses can also have apartments.Many New Yorkers refer to townhouses as brownstones because the material used was either brownstone or the more expensive limestone.