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We rented a rehearsal space for my band in Manhattan. One January the heater broke and after a month of begging for it to be fixed, the owner said: "It will be Spring soon."
-J.F.

It's time to move when your roommate:
-starts a feral cat rescue program that terrorizes you and your fellow highly allergic roommate.
- is found passed out IN the fridge, with all YOUR food on the floor around her.
- cuts internet and cable wires to your room, and then calls the police when you try to retrieve the cable box (billed in YOUR NAME) from her room
- is found sleeping off the effects of too much Special K in the basement, wrapped in a carpet
- is found in lounging in your bedroom, in your clothes, reading your journal
- saves a frozen cockroach in the fridge for a school project
- starts throwing out (YOUR) dishes rather than wash them.
- not realizing you are home sick, locks you IN your bedroom because she is afraid someone will enter the apt. via your fire escape window, and rape her.
- gets her real estate license and sells enough coke to afford the down payment, buys your building and KICKS YOU OUT!!!!
I may now live in the ghetto, but at least I live alone...
-J.

In addition to the normal gamut of horrendous apartment issues (cockroaches, mice, peeling paint, etc), I think I had a unique experience that put my old East Village apt on a whole new level of horror. Towards the end of my lease, the management company began to show my apartment to prospective tenants as I had decided not to renew my lease. Not only did they not hold to those specified hours, often resulting in the super opening my door while I was standing in the kitchen in a bath towel, but I came home more than once to find the super's unstable Albanian cousin watching television on my couch! His explanation? "I didn't think you would be home." Talk about creepy.
-G.D.

I had an artist friend who once lived above Max's Kansas City and below a dance group. He had no trouble with Max's since his own schedule meant that they were closed when he was sleeping, but he and his wife had to move when the dance group toured Spain and returned with a Flamenco dancer. The dancers all started studying Flamenco and the thumping on the ceiling became intolerable.
-J.K.

Dame Diggz

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Dame Diggz, Yonkers rapper, discusses his involvement in the Westchester State Senate campaign controversy between Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Nicholas Spano. November 16, 2006.

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