adam613
2008-07-10, 07:16 PM
While aggressive evictions are making rent-stabilized apartments increasingly scarce in New York, Representative Charles B. Rangel is enjoying four of them, including three adjacent apartments in a sprawling penthouse overlooking Upper Manhattan, courtesy of one of New York’s premier real estate developers.
Mr. Rangel, the powerful Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, uses his fourth apartment, six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyreg ... angel.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html)
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Mr. Rangel, the powerful Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, uses his fourth apartment, six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyreg ... angel.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html)
Must be good to have connections...