Air Space-guess I live a sheltered life.

[Okie_Bob]

A friend sent me this link and I'm still not sure I believe it. If I understand the article, people in NY City
are paying the City up to $450 per square foot for the right to build taller than local code allows! They
are apparently doing this for the view?
I love the good old American way of life and the ability to do most anything we want. But, this is unbelievable.
I just wonder what the cost of building per square foot is in New York City? I can't even imagine paying upwards of $500 per sq ft for anything!


http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/30/real_estate/air_rights/

[Amanda_931]

I'm not quite sure where that money's going.  And if it applies to each floor over-height or just once.  It sounds as though it's in fees and penalties, nothing to do with construction costs.

I know people who love New York.  Don't really think I would.

Speaking of life in the big city, a friend sent me an article (no link, durn it) to an intentional community on Staten Island, where room rent is "only," (according to that article not quite the same in that second link down) $650 a month, including heat power and water but not phone or internet access.   Couldn't find a link to what he sent but here's another one:

http://www.theticker.org/vnews/display.v/ART/41990e3050c29

More on their own web site:

http://www.well.com/user/ganas/home/index.html

[Texan_lost_in_cali]

Only $650 per month? Wow you cannot rent a nice used refridgerator box with an underpass to place it in here in Southern California....

[tjm73]

Speaking of life in the big city, a friend sent me an article (no link, durn it) to an intentional community on Staten Island, where room rent is "only," (according to that article not quite the same in that second link down) $650 a month, including heat power and water but not phone or internet access.   Couldn't find a link to what he sent but here's another one:

http://www.theticker.org/vnews/display.v/ART/41990e3050c29

More on their own web site:

http://www.well.com/user/ganas/home/index.html

That might be reffering to the "rent controlled" situations that some NYC places have.

[Amanda_931]

No, you're renting a room in a house that the community owns.

[tjm73]

No, you're renting a room in a house that the community owns.

OUCH!! Now I follow what your saying.