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Secondhand smoke in Condos/Co-ops in
New York City, New York, United States
October 3, 2016
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4/16/16

Making a Building Smoke-Free

New York Times My co-op is considering making our building nonsmoking, both in the common areas and inside shareholders’ apartments.
4/1/16

Lawsuit: Upper West Side Condo Board Claims Pot-Smoking Tenants Stinking Up Building

CBS New York Josefina Berman and her son, Charlie, live in unit 1S at 400 Central Park West on the Upper West Side, and according to the condo board, they like to smoke weed — a lot, 1010 WINS’ Glenn Schuck reported.
3/4/16 Manhattan Co-op Ordered to Pay $120,000 to a Woman Affected by Secondhand Smoke New York Magazine In his decision, Justice Arthur Engoron made it clear that he believes this is more than a quality-of-life issue:
3/3/16 Manhattan Co-op Resident Wins $120K In Lawsuit Over Secondhand Smoke Infiltration Gothamist.com A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has awarded a co-op apartment owner more than $120,000 in maintenance and fees after she sued over damage to her place from people smoking in neighboring apartments, which she said also affected her health.
3/2/16 The Price of Smoking in Co-ops Just Went Up. Way Up Habitat Magazine VIn a decision that’s sure to fuel the smoking debate in every co-op in the city, a state Supreme Court judge has awarded more than $120,000 in back maintenance, interest and attorney fees to a co-op shareholder who claimed that smoke from other apartments had permeated her unit and rendered it uninhabitable.
2/7/16 Recent Lawsuit on Secondhand Smoke: A Court Decides If a Co-op Is Liable Habitat Magazine Susan Reinhard, a shareholder in Connaught Tower Corporation at 300 East 54th Street in Manhattan, sued that co-op because it did not remediate secondhand smoke she claimed was seeping into her apartment.
11/2015 How to Enforce a Smoking Ban Habitat Magazine Certain condominium associations that we represent have amended their bylaws to ban smoking within individual units as well as within the common areas.
3/28/15 Condo board fumes trust-funders 'pot smoke' New York Post A 27-year-old trust-funder is smoking out the neighbors of her ritzy Chelsea condo by sending constant plumes of pot throughout the building, the board complains in a new lawsuit.
2/12/15 CB 11 CONTINUES PUSH FOR SMOKE-FREE HOUSING TheForumNews.com Additionally, the resolution encourages owners of rentals, condominiums and co-ops to disclose the building’s smoking policy to current and prospective tenants.
6/2014 Breathe Clean Habitat Magazine (archives) How a Queens co-op and a Manhattan condo imposed a smoking ban.
6/17/14 How a Spreadsheet Helped an Upper East Side Condo Board Ban Smoking Habitat Magazine Diana Harfouche, former board president of the Upper East Side, Manhattan, condominium The Impala, ended her time as board leader by overseeing the successful transformation of the property into a smoke-free zone.
6/16/14 Green Space So Exclusive It’s Off Limits Even to Residents New York Times “The last thing we want is barbecue and cigarette smoke.”
6/14/14 Motion to Ban Smoking Fails in Upper West Side Building Curbed.com After a long, grueling battle over a possible smoking ban in the Upper West Side's Vaux building, the smokers have emerged victorious, after the pro-ban contingent of the building's condo board failed to produce the necessary votes.
6/13/14 Burn One Down: Smokers Triumph as Smoking Ban Goes Down At UWS Condo New York Observer And when the smoke cleared at the Vaux building, at 372 Central Park West... , well it didn't.
5/8/14 Big co-op goes smoke-free Queens Chronicle Hundreds of Queens residents no longer have to suffer the risks of secondhand smoke in their own homes, now that a 300-unit building in the Hilltop Village Co-op complex has banned lighting up indoors.
11/14/13 Spending Hours on the Co-op Board Minutes New York Times “You can find out about the guy smoking too much in Apartment 4A or the barking dog in another apartment or that the roof needs repair,” Mr. Rosabianca said.
7/19/13 Neighbors’ Refuse in a Garden New York Times I recently bought a garden apartment in a brownstone co-op that is next to a large rental building.
5/29/13 MHN Interview: Encouraging Smoke-Free Buildings in NYC MHN Online One of the reasons that it’s especially important to focus on smoke-free housing in New York City is that we have the highest concentration of multi-unit buildings.
5/1713 Building kicks butt New York Post A towering 650-unit condominium complex in Manhattan has become the largest smoke-free residential building in the country, homeowners said yesterday.
          Big Union Square Condo Bans Smoking Everywhere, Even On The Roof Gothamist.com Homeowners at Zeckendorf Towers, a massive 647-unit development that was built at 1 Irving Place in the 1980s, voted for the ban on April 30th, with nearly 84 percent of voters supporting the measure.
5/17/13 HOMEOWNERS VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY TO MAKE UNION SQUARE'S ICONIC ZECKENDORF TOWERS THE LARGEST SMOKE-FREE CONDO IN NEW YORK CITY Manhattan Smoke-Free Partnership Homeowners in Zeckendorf Towers, the famed 29-story, 647-unit pyramid-topped building that led the revitalization of Union Square more than 20 years ago, have set a new city milestone by voting overwhelmingly to become the largest completely smoke-free condominium in New York City.
              Building kicks butt New York Post A towering 650-unit condominium complex in Manhattan has become the largest smoke-free residential building in the country, homeowners said yesterday.
           Zeckendorf Towers Becomes Largest Smoke-Free Condo in City, Possibly the Nation NYCSmokefreeblog.org Today marks another New York City milestone.
               Condo board tells residents to “Butt out” Real Estate Weekly First S. Klein, then needle park and now cigarettes.
5/3/13 Mold, Come Out With Your Hands Up New York Times “Some of the highest-end residential buildings in Manhattan have decided it’s worth it to spend the money and solve the problem. They know their residents have every reason to object to secondhand smoke.”
4/5/13 Smoke-Free Housing Strategies in New York City NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City Video
A Guide for Residents of New York City NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City Brochure
Making Room to Breathe NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City A Case Study of Smoke-Free Housing in NYC
3/15/13 Flutist Buys Co-op on Smoke-Filled Floor at the El Dorado New York Observer The El Dorado ... was home to one of New York’s cattiest co-op dramas of 2012, when the co-op board took heiress Diane Wells to court over her formidable smoking habit and fumes they claimed were leaking into neighboring ninth-floor units through a gaping hole in her apartment.
2/7/13 Recent Lawsuit on Secondhand Smoke: A Court Decides If a Co-op Is Liable Habitat Magazine Susan Reinhard, a shareholder in Connaught Tower Corporation at 300 East 54th Street in Manhattan, sued that co-op because it did not remediate secondhand smoke she claimed was seeping into her apartment.
10/16/12 Smoking in NYC: how condominiums and co-ops can eliminate smoking in their building Lexology.com With the abundance of NY condominiums and cooperative apartments, there are often complaints from owners about smoke emanating from surrounding units.
9/28/12 Smokefree Housing Options in NYC Need to Expand The Huffington Post In cities like New York with dense populations and a prevalence of multi-family unit housing, it's no wonder that more people are exposed to secondhand smoke right in their own living rooms.
9/11/12 Butt Out: A Yorkville Condo Goes Smoke-Free. Here's How It Did It. Habitat Magazine That was when a resident in his building complained about the cigarette smoke emanating from his next-door neighbor's apartment.
8/16/12 On Condo Rentals and Smoking New York Times Is the board of a condo allowed to forbid an owner to rent to a smoker even though owners who currently live in the apartment are allowed to smoke?
7/24/12 Fix your apartment, but keep on smoking New York Daily News A chain-smoking transgender recluse in one of Manhattan’s landmarked upper West Side co-ops will have to let repairmen in to fix a gaping chasm in her living room wall, a judge ruled Tuesday.
7/22/12 El Dorado co-op wants to evict 'smoking' trust-fund transsexual stinking up swank CPW complex New York Post A chi-chi Upper West Side building wants to boot the trust-fund transsexual who’s been stinking up the joint with her chain smoking.
7/6/12 More Momentum for Smoke-Free Co-ops and Condos, with Help from HUD Habitat Magazine Hate dealing with secondhand smoke in your co-op or condominium?
5/11/12 Smoke-Free New York City Apartment Buildings Are Popular; New Yorkers Still Weary Of Nanny-State (POLL) Huffington Post New York City voters, by a %59- %39 margin, want to live in a building where smoking is prohibited, according to the poll.
4/29/12 Smoke-Free Residences The New York Times We are fielding more calls on secondhand smoke in residential buildings than on any other tobacco control issue, and 311 calls are increasing as well.4
4/27/12 Bloomberg proposes new anti-smoking bill Washington Square News4
4/26/12 City To Landlords: Post Smoke Policy Ridgewood Times Newsweekly4
4/25/12 Big Apple Mayor Proposes New Smoking Apartment Building Rules, SolarCigarette.com Dishes Out the Details PR.com4
4/22/12 Proposed Rules for Buildings Reignites Smoking Debate WNYC.org4
4/19/12 Bloomberg Compares Smoking To Jumping Off A Bridge Gothamist.com4
4/18/12 Mayor Taking New Step on Smoking Wall Street Journal4
4/18/12 Proposal Would Require Building Owners to Set Smoking Rules NBC 4 New York4
4/18/12 Bloomberg Calls for Residential Smoking Rules New York Times4
4/18/12 Mayor's push could ban smoking at home CrainsNewYork.com4
4/18/12 New York City Legislation Would Require Disclosure of Residences' Smoking Policies, Allowing Renters and Buyers to Make Informed Decisions Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids4
4/12/12 REBNY’s Residential Management Council Proposes Guidelines for Implementing No-Smoking Policies Real Estate Board New York Residential Management Council has created a guide to help managing agents to best inform their buildings and boards who are considering implementing a no-smoking policy.4
4/7/12 Smoking laws target apartments, condos, co-ops LoHud.com “Nice people, quiet,” Shanahan recalled. “But they chain-smoked constantly.”4
4/2/12 Smoking Ban for Apartment Buildings Catches Fire in Queens New York Observer Phil Kinogsberg of Bayside has been pushing to have smoking banned in his co-op complex for the past five years, but now he’s shifting focus to banning smoking in all multi-family residences in the city, according to Crain’s.4
4/1/12 Advocate eyes housing smokeout Crain's New York Business Public transportation, restaurants, bars and parks have all gone smokeless. Now one of the earliest and most vocal advocates of those bans in New York has his eye on the final prize: a prohibition on smoking in all multi-family residences.
3/19/12 To Buy Or Not To Buy In A Smoking Prohibited Building, Business Insider In a survey of 1,000 New Yorkers commissioned by the New York City Coalition for a Smoke-Free City, 58 percent said they would pay more to live in smoke-free housing.
3/16/12 Smoking Bans Hitting Home The Wall Street Journal At least half a dozen Manhattan co-ops are expected to ask shareholders during annual meetings this spring to vote on an all-out smoking ban that would prohibit residents from lighting up in their own homes, real estate attorneys say.
3/12/12 13 NYC apartment buildings that have totally banned smoking Brick Underground ...below are 13 NYC buildings--including rentals, co-ops and condos--that have taken the plunge* and banned smoking.
12/12/11 How to Successfully Change Your Proprietary Lease to Ban Smoking Habitat Magazine Margaret Enloe doesn't remember when the complaints about secondhand smoke started..
1/16/11 Family sues cigar-smoking neighbor over secondhand smoke New York Post An Upper East Side cigar smoker said he’s done everything to appease the family next door that insists he’s generating so much secondhand smoke that it’s seeping into their apartment and making life a living hell.

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