30 AUGUST 10, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Ridgewood Times Real Estate Guide
Listings selected at random. Courtesy MLSLI
RIDGEWOOD
Forest Avenue Union Turnpike 60th Drive 79th Street
Under $500,000
21-22 Greene Avenue
$368,000
Condo
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
Louis Pastorini
Coldwell Banker Phillips
$500,00 - $900,000
63-16 Forest Avenue
$649,000
Condo
2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Iwona Wojcik
Charles Rutenberg Realty Inc
Over $900,000
60-22 Bleecker Street
$1,075,000
2-family Townhouse
5 bedrooms, 2 full-baths, 1 half-bath
Deborah Berman
Exit Kingdom Realty
GLENDALE
Under $500,000
90-50 Union Turnpike
$389,000
Co-Op
3 bedrooms, 1 full-bath, 1 half-bath
David Kueber
Coldwell Banker Kueber Realty
$500,00 - $900,000
75-11 60th Place
$639,999
1 -family Colonial
3 bedrooms, 1 full-bath, 1 half-bath
Ana Castano
Realty Executives LAR Group
Over $900,000
71-61 70th Street
$998,000
2-family Colonial
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
Vincent Gianelli
Du Rite Realty Company LLC
MASPETH
Under $500,000
52-21 65th Place
$328,000
Co-Op
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Ania Sikorski
Home Hunter Real Estate
$500,00 - $900,000
66-06 Perry Avenue
$890,000
2-family Colonial
5 bedrooms, 2 full-baths, 1 half-bath
Maryanna Zero
Home Hunters Real Estate
Over $900,000
62-25 60th Drive
$1,159,000
2-family
6 bedrooms, 3 full-baths, 1 half-bath
Erika Demkowicz
Donna Demkowicz REALTOR
MIDDLE VILLAGE
Under $500,000
66-11 71st Street
$380,000
Condo
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
Stephen Chow
Winzone Realty Inc
$500,000 - $900,000
65-14 79th Street
$819,000
1-family
3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Joseph Crifasi
Crifasi Real Estate Inc
Over $900,000
66-71 74th Street
$1,300,000
2-family
4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms
Cindy Danielski
Crifasi Real Estate Inc
REAL ESTATE
Pol: Short-term house rentals ought to meet hotel safety standards
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@QNS.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
A Queens senator is proposing
new legislation to address
concerns around the safety of
short-term rentals off ered through
online hubs such as Airbnb.
Shortly aft er Assemblywoman Linda
B. Rosenthal introduced legislation
that would require Airbnb to provide
the addresses of its hosts’ listings to
law enforcement offi cials, state Senator
Tony Avella is seeking legislation to
require all short-term rentals to keep
guests’ records for a certain period of
time and request legal identifi cation
of guests upon arrival and check-in,
which are required for those checking
into hotels or motels.
The bill would amend New York
State’s General Business Law and
place the same requirements that legal
lodging establishments must uphold to
short-term rentals, such as those found
on Airbnb. Avella is calling for shortterm
rentals should be required keep
guests’ records for three years and to
produce these records when asked by
regulators and law enforcement offi cers.
The bill will also require all legal
lodging establishments to require
photo identifi cation from guests upon
their arrival, a practice that is currently
in place at hotels that Airbnb does
not require.
“Airbnb’s unwelcome proliferation
in neighborhoods in my district, mostly
by absentee commercial operators,
has created a public nuisance and
public safety risks that are simply
unacceptable,” Avella said. “If Airbnb
wants to act like a hotel, then it must be
subject to the same basic transparency
and disclosure requirements that all
legal lodging establishments in the
City of New York are responsible for.”
In addition to requiring photo
identifi cation and maintaining guest
registries, Avella is seeking to require
owners of Airbnb rentals to state the
property address on their listings in
Queens and to affi rm that there are
no outstanding violations in their
property.
Airbnb slammed Avella’s proposed
legislation in a statement to the Ridgewood
Times.
“It is unfortunate that a lawmaker
who has taken tens of thousands of
dollars in campaign contributions
from the hotel industry would
introduce legislation attacking
hardworking New Yorkers for using
their own homes to earn enough to
stay in the neighborhoods they love,”
said Airbnb spokesperson Peter
Schottenfels. “If Senator Avella is
serious about this issue, he should
join Assemblyman Lentol in fighting
for common sense legislation
that allows New Yorkers to share
their homes while cracking down
on commercial operators who abuse
home sharing platforms.”
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