...And if they're doing electrical shenanigans, who knows what else they're doing.
Like gas for instance.
Doing illegal building stuff doesn't seem like a huge deal until something goes catastrophically wrong, like that building on the corner of 2nd avenue and E 7th street in the Village.
BOOM, no more building, as well as three others destroyed, and two people dead because the owners/landlords were doing shady stuff with the gas line.

https://ny.curbed.com/2016/2/11/11029792/deadly-east-village-explosion-leads-to-manslaughter-charges

YOU. ARE. GETTING. SCAMMED. Full stop.
I don't even know how you could sue to recover anything but I'm sure a lawyer or someone else will post with better knowledge about this.
Google his name, does anything shady come up, like I'm guessing it will? Also google your address.
Go into ACRIS, the NYC property database, see who owns the building, if that's even his real name. You need to do alot of research here.

Sorry but your partner is also a dumbass.
THIS IS NEW YORK, you ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS get everything in writing.

New York City always looks so cute in the movies like Midnight Cowboy, huh?

And how do you even know when you reach the end of the universe? Is there an electrified fence or something? Or a bubble membrane you'd bounce off?

But of course, humans.

So wait, lemme get this straight... you came to NYC... and got scammed?
Who woulda thunk. Never in my life heard of that happening before.
/s

Yeah I lived through NYC in the 70s and 80s and MY WHOLE LIFE I haven't been jumped 4 times. OP never responded so smells fishy to me, sounds more like fear-mongering.

I'm sorry this happened to you.. where was this?

>But people who purposefully choose to stay homeless when there are available alternatives?

One day you ought to ask a homeless person (or actually look it up) WHY they don't go to a shelter.
It wouldn't possibly cross your mind that there might be a reason now, would you?
https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/4/5/22366758/new-yorkers-choose-streets-over-homeless-shelters

The other reason they MIGHT be homeless is (who woulda thunk) the enormous wage/wealth disparity, where wages have stagnated for 15 years while housing/living costs have multiplied by at least a factor of 4 over the past 20 years, and yet all that gets built is more and more luxury housing because guess what, there's no profit for developers in building 'affordable' housing.

Otherwise known as 'late-stage capitalism.'

It's completely tone-deaf and sanctimonious of you and anyone else to pass judgement on homeless, or tell them what they should do, or suggest laws be passed to criminalize people simply for being poor.
I find it comical no one is suggesting passing any legislation to increase funding for homeless services and looking for solutions like increasing taxing on developers, who are making end-runs around zoning laws to build more and more unnecessary luxury skyscrapers while getting BILLIONS in city and state subsidies, i/e free money, while letting the homeless forever twist in the wind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/nyregion/nyc-tax-credit-housing-crisis.html

>We should make it a crime to sleep on a train or sidewalk; the only penalty being you are held in a shelter overnight. But we need to stop letting the homeless refuse services, they need the help and they'll never get there if we don't make them. These are a few suggestions that would help greatly.

We should make it a crime to be this absolutely fυскіnɡ stupid and ignorant, the only penalty being you lose the right to vote.
Are you fυскіnɡ serious? Criminalizing homelessness?

Preaching to the choir my friend. I feel like so many people just didn't get basic parenting or something. There's an incredible lack of awareness.

C'mon the post will paint anyone as 'shameless thieves' in order to piss people off and feed into the narrative of 'rising crime.'

it was funny once i read it.. but the headline was meant to emotionally engage.

'Shameless NY Post having a slow newsday while instigating more fear-for-clicks"

Did you not read the link? Desalinization plants create overwhelming unsustainable and TOXIC levels of salt, LITERALLY the size of Florida EVERY YEAR, with nowhere to put it all, on a level that's killing marine life.
More than half from Saudi Arabia.

Great now what do we do with all the excess salt?
Humans always thinking of solutions but always creating another problem in the process.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-brine/too-much-salt-water-desalination-plants-harm-environment-u-n-idUSKCN1P81PX

GO ON EBAY and score an old Thinkpad for like $100! Anything with at least an i5 or higher processor is totally adequate for running streaming video. Even a couple yr old Chromebooks are cheap!
No one wants laptops anymore, it's either phones or pads, so the laptop market is overloaded.
I used to do major computer tech but the market has fallen out... I HATE working on phones, you don't know how anti-user-friendly they are... to pry them apart from this horrible super-glue, and then there are TINY-ass parts, like the tiny metal contacts that go in the volume and power buttons, I'm not kidding, they're the size of fleas, and if you lose them, (which you do) your phone is pretty much a brick after that.
/Rant

Maaan I'm fucking old. I remember when laptops were like NINE POUNDS so like, anything 3 or 4 lbs is still a luxury to me.
Same goes for internet speed. If I'm getting like 10MBps I'm happy. Every cellphone that gets 4G is fully capable of that.
It still seems like yesterday I was wrestling with wireless modems doing 128k.
Even if I can get the weight of my bicycle down to 21 lbs (in this age of 12 lb bikes) I can't complain.

See, this is what getting old is like.

Ok let's get one thing clear: You are NOT 'rent controlled' unless you've been living in your apartment continuously since 1971.
There's a difference between rent control and 'rent stabilized' which is what you're referring to.
You should read up on the facts first.
https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/resources/faqs/deregulation/