Next, we had to find a new house or apartment (that allowed pets), pack up all our belongings (and our pets), shlep them to our new place, unpack everything, and feed the pets.
In some cases, even apartments that allow dogs put a cap on dog size.
The covenant of quiet enjoyment — the principle that allows apartment dwellers, stacked like trays of honeybees, to expect a bit of peace — can be an exasperating abstraction.
New York City decided to acquire land for such a park as an inducement to get communities to support a controversial 175-block rezoning that allows apartment towers to replace derelict factories in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, which have become two of the city's most coveted neighborhoods.
He does not have a pet now (he still spends two weeks a month in Scottsdale, a pattern he will continue through the end of the year) but says he would like to get a dog soon, since he found an apartment in the Village that allows them.
In 1994, the Council passed a law that allows apartments to be decontrolled when the rent reaches $2,000 a month.
One solution is to convert a site slated for office construction to residential construction under existing commercial zoning that allows apartments.
In the last few years, the State Legislature has taken small steps to move some of the rent-stabilized apartments back onto the open market: in June, it passed a rule that allows vacated apartments to be phased out of the system once the rent hits $2,000 a month.
This time, a bill offered by Mr. Silver, which was one of the first passed by the Assembly in February, would extend the current law until 2008, and make substantial changes like repealing the high-rent vacancy decontrol provision that allows vacated apartments to be phased out of the program after the rent reaches $2,000 a month.
