Sentences with phrase «on illegal hotels»
In a letter to Williams, Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, thanked the councilman for allowing the company to testify at the hearing and reiterated that Airbnb is willing to work with the Council to crack down on illegal hotels while protecting New Yorkers who legally rent out their homes.
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«It will give our city another strong tool to crack down on illegal hotels and preserve affordable housing.»
The New York Daily News reported today that Eric Schneiderman issued the company a subpoena demanding data on its New York renters, who might be in violation of a 2011 law intended to tamp down on illegal hotels.
Aronson echoed calls for Urstadt Law repeal (a popular stance among many city Democrats) and vowed to crack down on illegal hotels she alleged have been driving up housing prices in the area.
Not exact matches
Called the Airbnb Community Compact, the document outlines several ways that the popular company plans to work with municipalities, including sharing anonymized data on the hosts and guests who use the service, preventing illegal hotel landlords from operating on the platform, and promising to pay its «fair share» of hotel and tourist taxes in cities that have them.
A hotel - industry group is breaking out the big guns to go after Airbnb, hiring a former NYPD officer to look for illegal rentals on the popular home - sharing service.
De Blasio's cousin, John Wilhelm, was his No. 3 bundler, and the UNITE HERE hotel workers union he co-founded benefited from the mayor's crackdown on illegal apartment rentals through Airbnb.
At noon, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, Goodard Riverside Law Project, local elected officials, affordable housing advocates and tenants holds a press conference to announce the filing of a temporary restraining order against illegal hotel operator Michael Edelstein, owner of the Imperial Court, a single room occupancy building on the Upper West Side, 230 West 72nd St., Manhattan.
NYC has hired Christian Klossner, a former narcotics prosecutor, to go after illegal hotels that advertise on home - sharing sites like Airbnb, part of its more aggressive approach to cracking down on the apartment - hogging operators.
Share Better, an anti-Airbnb coalition that includes politicians and the hotel industry, is launching a new ad campaign and website today warning about a new law cracking down on the advertising of illegal short - term rentals and the costs of violating it.
A law meant to stamp out illegal hotels also prohibits tenants from renting out their apartments while they're on vacation.
«This bill will have a chilling effect on unscrupulous landlords renting out affordable housing units as illegal hotels,» Johnson added.
Other bundlers include Paul Adler, a former suburban Democratic chairman who served 19 months in prison on corruption charges, and hotel magnate Sant Singh Chatwal, who avoided prison despite making illegal donations to Hillary Clinton.
Illegal hotels are particularly common on the Upper West Side, Brewer said, because of the ubiquity of single - room occupancy units catering to low - income residents.
UPPER WEST SIDE — Housing activists are planning victory parties, but lawyers for New York's so - called «illegal hotels» are vowing to fight a new law that cracks down on running hotels in residential buildings.
Together, Council Member Van Bramer and these New Yorkers in need will express why they believe Airbnb needs to be held accountable for allowing tax - subsidized affordable housing units to be posted as illegal hotels on their website.»
He will testify Friday at a City Council hearing on several bills that aim to curb illegal hotels, including one that could fine operators who repeatedly break the law as much as $ 50,000.
You won't find off - the - beaten - path bars tucked away on hidden streets, as it's illegal to serve alcohol outside of hotel complexes.
No hotel, convention center, or other commercial establishment or the network operator providing services at such establishments may intentionally block or disrupt personal Wi - Fi hot spots on such premises, including as part of an effort to force consumers to purchase access to the property owner's Wi - Fi network -LSB-...] Such action is illegal and violations could lead to the assessment of substantial monetary penalties.»
Most recently, the EEOC extracted a $ 72,000 settlement from a Holiday Inn Express hotel on behalf of nine illegal immigrants from Mexico who were fired as housekeepers in alleged retaliation for leading a successful union organizing drive.
The accused, Santiago Wong, was charged with maintaining an illegal gambling operation, based on surveillance footage from a camera placed in his hotel room by police without prior judicial authorization.