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City Officials Raid Luxury Residential Buildings in Airbnb Crackdown

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NYC’s tough stance towards Airbnb apartment rentals is now being enforced by raids. In one of the largest crackdowns on short-term rentals, officials raided the condo building Atelier, on the Far West Side, last month, smacking close to two dozen violations to owners who allegedly rented out apartments on the home-sharing site. Last month, officials handed out violations to 20 different condo owners for allegedly making short-term rentals, which is illegal in NYC. “The extensive violations written show a clear need for building ownership and management to take action,” said Christian Klossner, Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement.

As reported by The Real Deal, the legal action has mostly been steered by other residents or owners in the buildings who have banded together to identify the apartments that have been renting out on a short term basis. At the Atelier tower, which has 478 luxury residential units, a group of owners sent the city a list of nearly 100 apartments they suspect of breaking the law. Some of the owners, at the 46-story building located at 635 West 42nd Street, are blaming the condo’s board president for the recurring offenses. They are asking Daniel Neiditch, who manages the building and runs the real estate agency that rents and sells most of the units at the tower, to resign as board president.

Josh Meltzer, Airbnb’s head of Northeast Policy, said recurring cases of illegal short term rentals “are rare and not representative of our host community — the vast majority of whom are sharing the home in which they live — but they do reinforce the need for a comprehensive, statewide bill that would provide for strict recourse against bad actors and protect the rights of regular New Yorkers who are responsibly sharing their homes.”

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