Long-term can mean a cheaper rate in the long run and delay future apartment-hunting stress, but short-term can offer flexibility and deals, too.
If the Pike and parts of nearby roads were transferred to Arlington, county officials would no longer have to navigate VDOT's lengthy approval process, they say, and such projects as the streetcar system and future apartment-retail complexes could be completed years earlier.
MOST present and future apartment-owners are acutely aware that it is easier to buy or sell a condominium than a co-op because transferring ownership of a co-op usually needs the consent of the building's board while the transfer of a condo usually does not.
Andrew Brent, a spokesman for the city's Economic Development Corporation, said residents of the future apartments in Flushing Commons would help nearby businesses, injecting money into the local economy.
At the height of the boom, Mr. Baum said, young downtown office and restaurant workers placed down payments on future apartments that still had garbage piled on the floor and pigeons nesting in the walls.
A greater share of those apartments — 1,425 instead of 765 — would come in the form of what is called "permanent supportive housing," meaning District taxpayers would finance for the foreseeable future apartments for the most vulnerable and unemployable parents with children.
After writing about the proposal in the Park Slope Food Co-op newsletter and on various local listservs, the group, known as Brooklyn Cohousing, started attracting people who eventually became formal members, which meant they had each thrown into the collective pot at least 5percentt of the estimated cost of their future apartments (the ownership structure would essentially be a co-op).
When they call home from their future apartments, I'd rather talk about how their lives are going than the importance of vacuuming before you mop.
So we quickly agreed that she could stay in my (future) NYC apartment whenever she wanted to get her fill of the Big Apple.
Mr. Shane was outspoken -- often in the pages of The Main Street Wire (pdf), the island's local paper -- on his differences with the board on several hot-button local issues, including on the future of apartments seeking to "go private," or become deregulated from the middle-income housing program known as Mitchell-Lama.
