Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Cash Jordan" channel.

  1. For that much I was expecting a kitchen that wasn’t just one wall, something with an island or peninsula with a breakfast bar.
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  2. Windowless basement rooms are not legal bedrooms. It’s a two bedroom with bonus rooms.
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  3. That’s more a ladder than a staircase, less you’ve been in the Navy then you’re used to stairs that steep.
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  4. The vent for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel all the way downtown was used for the Men in Black HQ entrance. Roosevelt Island used to be called Blackwells island, and housed a hospital for patients needing to be quarantined, a prison and an asylum. The journalist Nellie Bly faked being insane to get checked into the asylum and exposed horrific treatment and conditions, which got the place shut down (it was akin to what Geraldo Rivera found at Willowbrook in Staten Island.)
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  5. Been here since 1980 (didn’t exist before that), the city has been worse (look at old news reports from the late 1970s, aka the “Ford to City: Drop Dead” era… we’ve been getting better, but the pandemic has been hitting everyone hard since it’s unprecedented unless you are really old enough to remember 1918. I do think the bail reform needs to be amended to give Judges discretion though… if you see someone has been arrested a bunch of times over a few weeks or months, maybe don’t just keep sending them back out to terrorize the town?
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  6. No closets in the first three bedrooms, that means you’ll need wardrobes, which takes up space.
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  7. Yep, and asking for a living wage is “communist” in certain political circles.
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  8. You’re right, I can’t believe something this amazing this isn’t $20 million or more!
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  9. My Uncle lives near here… but that highway (BQE) view pretty much means those windows are staying closed 24/7.
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  10. What’s crazier, $10k/mo rent, or the fact that someone (or two people) can actually afford it!
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  11. That’s a crazy price for a studio in Bushwick (?), we pay less than that for 2-bedrooms in Forest hills, though our building has zero amenities (honestly, how often will you use all that stuff if you’re working full time) and the laundry is in the basement.
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  12. A little balcony like that is a “Juliet balcony” (as in Romeo and Juliet), it’s really more decorative than practical.
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  13. That weird space in the half bath would have been perfect for a laundry stack.
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  14. The room with the double doors is lacking a closet, so that’s the living room.
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  15. The cops do their best to crack down on those people reselling stolen goods, but there’s a bunch of them. It’s the prosecutors that keep doing catch and release that’s the problem, but that’s because they are beholden to what Albany dictates. Apparently the politicians up there don’t live where everyone else does, so they don’t see the problems their bail reform law has caused!
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  16.  @taylorlibby7642  rent is supposed to be 30% of your income. It almost never is.
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  17. A building like this standing alone gives me “Batteries Not Included” vibes. (Loved that movie when I was a kid).
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  18. My old neighborhood! (My parents still live there, but on the other side of the train). Those were fold away stairs, not ladders (makes laundry a little easier.)
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  19. Many offices are worried if they tell their workers to come back the workers will just quit. Bryant Park is being fixed from having the Winter ice rink there, which kills the lawn every year.
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  20. Wait, is that an entrance, or a tiny patio… is that a gate, or just a fence?
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  21. That overhead storage with the ladder… I’m guessing it’s open to the bedroom so it has some light coming into it… but it kind of makes for a privacy issue since even with the door closed, your roommate would probably hear you if they were in the kitchen.
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  22. The glass shower door hitting the toilet is an accident waiting to happen. The Harry Potter closet is just inexcusable for the price of that place.
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  23. Not fun to come back to from a break. My office had the reverse, the day before I took time off to get married, huge flood from a water tank used for the ventilation system just hit my desk and the desk next to mine. We had carpet instead of wooden floors, but that adds a mold risk. (We renovated and put in vinyl tiles everywhere just in case it happened again, but I moved my desk away from that spot.)
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  24. You could put stuff up on the roof, you’d just have to tie ropes to it to pull it up to the top of the stairs… or get something that comes in pieces and build it on the roof.
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  25. That front hatch is likely locked from the inside so random people don’t sneak into your basement.
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  26. One issue, the air conditioner looked like it was in the window for the fire escape, that’s actually illegal (unless there’s a second window next to it. Also it can’t be too big or it could block people upstairs from getting by. I know because I had to figure out if we could put one in our daughter’s room or not, thankfully we could because there’s two windows and we’re the top floor with no roof access.)
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  27. Ok, the frosted glass to hide the toilet was hilarious!😂
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  28. Dude, if I had $7 million, I’d be looking to buy a couple of houses, maybe all next to each other, make myself a little private compound!😂
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  29. Most people don’t realize how big of a drop it really is.
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  30. If you want something similar with a hotel instead of a mall, those Great Wolf Lodge places are a good thing to check out.
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  31. Really awesome idea, but, that’s a public transit dead zone (it’s a long hike to the 7 train past the entrance to the midtown tunnel, and there’s no bus service down there yet.)
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  32. So far most places with roof decks seem to have stairs that make it almost impossible to carry anything up, like a chair, or a grill.
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  33. Welcome back to NYC. Yes, the flight coming back from Australia the sun set, rose, set again, and then rose before we got to LAX in the morning, then our afternoon flight to JFK it set one more time. It’s like weird slow time travel and I went to bed feeling like the plane ran me over.
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  34. No closets at all is really weird, sure it maximizes the space, but then you need to take up space with standing wardrobes and other storage furniture.
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  35. Probably Central Park West or 5th Avenue along the east side of the park, if you were only sticking to Manhattan.
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  36. Never saw a bedroom with a bath, walk in closet AND a laundry room!
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  37.  @BlueGoat682  it reminded me of my wife’s old laundry room… so many machines… our current building has 4 little washers, 1 big washer and only 3 dryers… for like 50 apartments! Bought one of those racks to dry things… it paid for itself not having to pay 30 cents for only 6 minutes of weak dryer time.
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  38. If you work in midtown on the east side, there’s an east river ferry terminal nearby so you can use that instead of the subway.
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  39. Believe it or not, Mormons founded Las Vegas (it had a water source for the trail between Utah and Los Angeles).
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  40.  @bryceharper446  that red pipe going up through his office is a main for the sprinkler system so there is water in the building.
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  41. Took me a while to realize, this is an old school townhouse where the kitchen is in the basement and the rest of the unit is upstairs. The layout is a bit odd where most of the unit is not above the kitchen or your patio area. (Pause at 4:33, can’t figure out the laundry on the top floor has a door to outside the apartment…? Actually so does the living room.)
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  42. Have you ever forgotten something in a place you looked at, like your drink in the fridge?
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  43. It’s the Ross from Friends “PIVOT!” Staircase.
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  44. The boxes in the closet with the pipes are European water heaters, it’s more efficient than keeping a tank full of water and constantly reheating it, instead it’s able to sense that you want hot water, and it will almost instantly heat up the water running through it. Plus it’s safer since it won’t blow a gasket and flood your apartment after 10-15 years.
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  45. Too bad the current hamper looks like it can hold like one sweater. 😂
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  46.  @terryv  I believe legally you must put in an elevator if your building is 6 floors or more… so 4 like this can get away with no elevator.
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  47. Or get one of those 2 in 1 toilets with a sink on top of the tank… which usually are only found in jails and prisons.
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  48. That area is Bay Ridge, and yes it’s popular, though usually you need to go a few more stops on the R train to really get into the popular area. Convenient for the N express train though.
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  49.  @richardschneider4775  in stations the third rail is always on the side away from the platform. (Contact shoes are on both sides of the train.)
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  50. I have a feeling that tiny 2nd bedroom was probably the living room.
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