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

  1. Even older places had a shower/bath in the kitchen, but the toilet was down the hall and shared with the entire floor!
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  2. I guess that weird room off of the first kitchen could be an office?
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  3. Orange cabinets look like old Star Trek. That AC definitely can’t stay in the fire escape window, but at least there’s two other windows.
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  4. Technically it’s an SRO- Single Room Occupancy
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  5. The MTA was talking about switching the turnstiles from the spinning bar type to the kind they were using in San Francisco (it’s two tall panels that flip aside when you pay, you’d have to climb over that thing like Spider-Man to get in. (The idea was to add in one extra wide one for parents with strollers and wheelchair users to replace the auto-gate (those used to only work for disabled Metrocards, but now all Metrocards open it, and that stays open long enough for a bunch of people to run through.)
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  6. “Luxury” is all the amenities you’ll probably barely use. 😂
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  7. Yes, use the room with the water heater as a living room.
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  8. The Empire State Building annual stair climb.
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  9. The steam in the street comes from the ConEd plant on 14th and Avenue D, it’s like 1000 degrees and under high pressure. Buildings tie into the system from all the way downtown up to a certain block uptown (depends on which side of Central Park), for heating and weirdly cooling. When the pipes underground leak, they put up the big orange tubes to keep the steam from burning someone until they can patch the leak.
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  10. $10k a month, you may as well just buy the place and pay a mortgage at that point. It is like a little house though.
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  11. Cosmo Kramer finally put in levels?
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  12. In the old tenements (before housing reform) you could have families of 10 (or more) living in a single room thanks to stacked beds, and co-sleeping the children. (My grandmother was the first of 14 kids! (She out lived all of them except her youngest sister (all of their brothers died in WWII.))
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  13. I’d be careful, the city might make basement bedrooms without escape routes illegal after we got bad flooding from Hurricane Ida.
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  14. Those could also be used to stop skateboarders from playing on the rails.
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  15. Yeah,especially if the renter has kids.
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  16. Time changes from travel and jet lag are hard, especially going trans-pacific. Flew into Sydney, Australia at like 9am, had breakfast, hung out, finally cabbed it into the city to see if our hotel would at least hold onto our bags, thankfully we went in the off-season (August) to a small hotel, and the room was ready in 5 minutes. We beat out the longest anyone traveled to them from the US since most people come from the West Coast, (the ones we beat were from Chicago). Went out for an afternoon walk to get water and snacks for the room, got caught in the rain, made it back the the room at 3:30pm, decided to “nap” until dinner… we woke up, it was 2am! So much for dinner. Thankfully the hotel had a good free breakfast spread. Definitely recommend Australia, it’s a must to use the ferries from Circular Quay (pronounced key) to get around, good discount on the Taronga Zoo if you use the Ferry and the gondola thing (start up top at the gift shop, work your way down to the food court for lunch, then go the rest of the way down to the Ferry. It’s a good long day out, and you see lots of animals you really don’t see anywhere else.
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  17. Sadly it’s illegal to use those basements as bedrooms, there’s no exit to outside in a fire.
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  18.  @taylorlibby7642  I paid far less for an engagement ring (a set with a wedding band) but it wasn’t diamonds, it was Moissanite (my now wife and I both agreed the whole Diamond ring thing is BS. Plus her ring looks so much better as there’s more “fire” in it.)
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  19. Old knob and tube wiring, sometimes comes up here in old houses in the states, but it MUST be removed because it’s not grounded properly and there is a huge fire risk if things had degraded.
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  20. That first place was a 2 bedroom with a spare room… there were no windows in there, legally that’s not a bedroom.
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  21. While it was a spa resort hotel, the quiet and relaxing area reminds me of our first trip to meet our adopted daughter (second trip was the trip we got to take her home… leaving without her was awful, but that’s how the court system works over there, have to respect their process). Due to a major convention all the hotels in the city were booked solid, but our facilitator found a good place in the town up the woods/mountains called Starozagorski bani. It was really a good idea to be somewhere quiet and relaxing, and the food in the restaurant was amazing (all farm to table, homemade bread, really good free breakfast (anything other than basic coffee was extra though) with a deck to eat alfresco. Of course we were like smack in the middle of Bulgaria, the nearest international airport was 5 hours of driving away (there are trains, but the system is kind of old school Eastern bloc still.)
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  22. I thought that building out the back bedroom window looked familiar, it’s the oddly shaped Hotel Indigo you can see from the BQE! Not sure it’s worth that much if you have to live next to a hotel, but the L & G stop is literally right in front of the hotel.
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  23. This would be great if it wasn’t a walk up… also no laundry?
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  24. Took my daughter up the High Line before school started in September. That weird thing with the flag and bucket is supposed to slowly drip rain water onto a steel plate, erosion in super slow motion, but it’s too cold to work right now.
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  25. Do I want to know how they got that washer and dryer up into that tiny roof access spot?😂
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  26. Our apartment on the top floor has the same thing, the 4 apartments and two doctor’s offices under us give off enough heat, but the super/landlord can’t turn our heat off, so we have to live with the windows open in the winter just to not be boiling hot. It’s really inefficient.
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  27. That much rent and no bathtub?
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  28. The $10k unit did have laundry, in the coat closet by the front door (of all places.)
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  29. I’d be too sacred of breaking something and finding out it’s either irreplaceable or will cost a fortune to repair.
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  30. Paying for the location.
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  31. That room to outside could be an office, and the bathroom in it could be the “public” one for guests.
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  32. Price is because of the area.
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  33. Really cool, but wish it had less of a stoop out front since that’s not going to be fun carrying a stroller up and down, especially in winter when it gets icy.
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  34. That pull down thing in the closet is just another bar for hanging clothes, but you could use it for something you don’t wear often.
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  35. That ladder is for roof access… I’m surprised it’s out in the open like that, my grandmother’s house had it hiding in the back of the bedroom closet. (The lock is for safety so people don’t get inside by climbing up onto the roof).
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  36. That Amtrak line runs from Hudson Yards, under Hells Kitchen up to around 59th street, then it runs along the Hudson all the way up to Albany. Not all of the problem, but part of it: electric cars are heavier because of the battery pack, so a sedan might weigh as much as a big SUV. Hopefully future tech could reduce the battery’s weight. These garages were built for older cars, which weren’t exactly lightweight, but they weren’t as heavy as SUVs/EVs.
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  37. If only the last one was priced like the other building… $8000 must be because of the laundry and sink sprayer.
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  38. So many closets in that last bedroom, it’s like a walk-in-closet that has a bedroom inside.
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  39. I haven’t seen padded toilet seats in years! (My grandmother’s old house in Marine Park had one.)
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  40. Definitely a good place for people that have big dinner parties, you can cook a lot and clean all the dishes fast!
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  41. Unfortunately those aren’t egress windows in the basement… but there was a door in that room with the weird shelves for shrines… if that leads outside it can be a bedroom.
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  42. I always wonder if places with big windows like this have built in window treatments, sure it lets in plenty of light, but zero privacy, and sometimes you want to darken the room to sleep in in the morning.
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  43. I live in an old building (“pre-war”) we have one elevator, but there’s only a ramp in the back by the trash, and I don’t think it’s the correct 12 inches of run to 1 inch of rise for a wheelchair. Definitely something to talk to your realtor about… some buildings do have ramps, or outdoor lifts, but that’s for doctor’s offices… so if you don’t mind living on the first floor, you’d have access. (By my parents they built a 4 story building, with a ramp… but that’s only to access the elevator that only goes down to the basement medical place (which only has stairs outside). The rest of the building is a walk up.
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  44.  @snickersimsocute2438  he did a building in the Bronx a while ago, but it was a brand new luxury tower. Really not representative of the Bronx.
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  45. We have a friend that lives in Inwood, it’s not a bad area, that second laundry room… you can only get in from outside? That’s gotta be fun in a rainstorm.
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  46. That much rent and no in-unit laundry?
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  47. Thieves are now even going after delivery trucks stuck in traffic. It’s ridiculous!
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  48.  @maddscientist3170  and still pay U.S. taxes until you can obtain alternate citizenship (taxation without representation).
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  49. Despite you not being originally from NYC, your ability to rag on Jersey is on par with a native New Yorker. I’m wondering if they are slowly renovating the building so every unit will have laundry and the laundry room will be removed?
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  50.  @raineyj560  if it’s a side platform station standing by the wall also works.
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