NYC Landlords Suing Pandemic-Slammed Small Businesses by the Hundreds for Missed Rent

By artappraiser on Tue, 12/01/2020 - 8:43pm |

“You know, it just makes a hard life harder. That's all.” On top of everything, New York’s small businesses are getting hit with lawsuits in droves — for owed back rent. https://t.co/UZKk3g1VDu
— THE CITY (@THECITYNY) December 2, 2020

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https://www.thecity.nyc/economy/2020/11/30/21752375/nyc-landlords-suing-rent-pandemic-small-businesses

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Some of these people have been through pure hell since March, one thing after another after another, like the Book of Job. The psychological pressure of being between a rock and a hard place is enormous, sometimes I think it is better to be homeless and begging on the streets as at least then you are free of responsibility to others, the temptation of just walking away must be great.

edit to add: there's a popular holiday movie, starts with an attempted suicide saved by an angel, It's A Wonderful Life! where the angel shows Jimmy Stewart what the town would be like if he had never been born. That's what parts of NYC are like now- empty, bleak, grey, a reduced number of people in poor moods just going through motions.

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/01/2020 - 8:54pm

Some people really have no empathy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8651453/Landlord-arrested-connection-human-remains-stuffed-suitcase-Seattle.html

by Orion on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 3:44am

noticed this dot-org attempt to help:

Tag and share your favorite small businesses this holiday season. #SmallUnites
— Small Unites (@smallunites) November 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 9:07pm

a reminder of how many big cities use them to balance the budget by taxing them for all kinds of things:

Also this is important point from Manuel’s. Restaurants are expected to pay liquor license fees all at once. This is a huge expense to payout at one time. It was a bad idea before but cities should be waving or deferring liquor license fees if they don’t want restaurants to close pic.twitter.com/BeDrlK5FUw
— Ryan Campbell (@RyanForSmyrna) December 3, 2020

edit to add more about Manuel's:

Manuel's Tavern, a favored dig of Atlanta politicians (a favorite of Jimmy Carter), is on the verge of closing. We really have lost so many treasured businesses during this time https://t.co/7bzWBVVGaH
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) December 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 10:56pm

Tom Brady’s company took almost $1M in PPP loans, while 52% of small businesses that applied didn’t get any.

Tom Brady is worth $200,000,000. pic.twitter.com/St2L95ODxr
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) December 4, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 3:59pm

on the jazz clubs and other music venues of NYC going down:

Music venues throughout the city say they are hanging by a thread after being shuttered for nearly 9 months, with scant revenue or government relief. Jazz Standard, a noted club on East 27th St, is just one of them. https://t.co/DAUkBGwbCz
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) December 4, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 9:12pm

some snark on topic:

Small business owners are capitalists.
— Mike Nayna (@MikeNayna) December 5, 2020

Property is Whiteness. By starting businesses, they are perpetuating the system of white supremacy.
— Obaid Omer (@obaidomer) December 5, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 11:37pm

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