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There, just behind the row of television cameramen and still photographers, all lined up for the big moment. There was no red carpet; there were no sexy models like at the Detroit Auto Show. But there it was, under a giant white cloth in the middle of Nashville's Action Nissan showroom: the state of Tennessee's first Nissan Leaf. The state's first next-generation mass-consumer all-electric car. And, if you buy into the hype (or hope), the first of thousands of such vehicles that will soon be flooding East Tennessee roadways.
"This truly is a historic day for Tennessee," says Ryan Gooch, the director of energy policy for the state of Tennessee, just before the Leaf is unveiled and the non-keys handed over to its lucky owner. (Like an electric appliance, the Leaf starts with the push of a button, not the turn of a key.)
"As we look back on our clean energy future, this trend of sustainable mobility, it really is an important one," Gooch continues. "And you all will be able to say you were here the first time in Tennessee when somebody drove this off the lot … [Y]ou will be able to say you were part of the movement that helped changed really how we drive, and how we move people from place to place in the United States."
But can a car that can't even make it from Nashville to Knoxville on one battery charge really change the way people drive? (Even if there will soon be charging stations at Cracker Barrels along the way?) And can a state that leans so politically rightward ever embrace a car that's even more of a leftist California yuppie stereotype than the hybrid Toyota Prius—and one that's more expensive, at that?
Knoxville is one of a few select markets in the country in which the Leaf and an accompanying infrastructure of electric charging stations are being rolled out. But is there really a future for electric cars in East Tennessee?
Let's back up a bit.
At that press event in Nashville, which was just a few days before Christmas, there were a lot of people tossing around phrases like "the state's first electric car." This was, of course, an exaggeration.
Not only was there a second Leaf parked on the sidewalk outside the dealership, but at the party later that night at Nissan's headquarters in Franklin, a couple of Leafs were plugged into charging stations in front of the building, while more were inside for attendees to ogle. Of course, those are Nissan corporate promotional vehicles; the Leaf under the white drop cloth was the first one actually sold to paying, regular customers in Tennessee. But that hardly made it the state's first electric car.
No, the first electric car in Tennessee was sold over a hundred years ago.
In case you're not a scholar of automotive history, here's a brief refresher course. According to Curtis and Judy Anderson's Electric and Hybrid Cars: A History, the first American-built automobile ever sold, back in 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, was an electric vehicle. In an 1899 issue of Scientific American, electric car manufacturer Colonel Pope writes, "The storage electric motor is clean, silent, free from vibrations, … and produces no dirt or odor. While it is not so cheap in such mileage as some other forms of motors, it is certainly not extravagant in proportion to service rendered, and its capacity has been proved to be more than equal to the demand of the average city or country vehicle."
By 1904, one-third of the cars in Boston, Chicago, and New York were electric. By 1912, 34,000 electric cars had been registered across the country—and at least a few were probably in Knoxville. The 1912 Knoxville city directory has an advertisement for the automobile dealer Rodgers & Co. that lists Waverly Electric as one of the brands it carries.
But 1912 was the beginning of the end for the electric car. In that year, the electric starter was invented for internal-combustion engine vehicles. The starter replaced the dangerous crank, the lack of which had made electric cars much more appealing for the unathletic (i.e., women), despite their heftier price tag.
Around the same time, cheap oil from Texas made gas stations a possibility—Chevron opened the first one in 1913—and it was easier (and cheaper) to plop down a gas station in the middle of nowhere than to expand the infrastructure of the still-nascent electric grid.
By 1916, sales of electric cars had seriously declined. By the time Henry Ford had perfected the cost-saving assembly line enough to knock the price of his Model T down to $265 in 1923, the market for EVs (as they are called in industry-speak) was practically quashed. (Despite this, Ford's wife, Clara, actually drove an EV.)
There have been sporadic bursts of interest since then, like during the fuel shortages in the World War II years and during the oil crisis of the 1970s, but EVs never reclaimed the interest of major automakers.
Until now.
Obviously, the electric grid has improved since 1912. But the key technological advance that has made EVs a somewhat attractive option once again is the creation of the lithium-ion battery. Just like in a conventional car, the electric cars of past eras utilized lead-acid batteries. But unlike conventional cars, in which there's just the one heavy battery taking up a small part of the vehicle's overall weight, EVs have a battery pack that's comparable in size to some car engines. A vehicle's weight affects how far one can drive on a single battery charge, and how fast one can drive while doing so. Lead is heavy. Lithium is not.
Lead is also cheap. Lithium is not. This is why the Leaf has a sticker price starting around $33,000, and the highly touted Chevrolet Volt starts around $40,000. (The Volt is technically a plug-in hybrid, not a purely electric car; see "Test Driving the Nissan Leaf" for more.) Even though right now there is federal tax rebate that knocks about $7,500 off that cost, in addition to state incentives, the price of a Leaf is still out of reach for many Americans.
Charged Up
"If you want an American to do something, hit him in the wallet," says Jonathan Overly, excitedly tapping his foot as he takes another sip of coffee.
Overly is the director of the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition, which he helped found in 2002. He's a former engineer who once researched advanced fuel technology for Saturn, but don't let his sweater vest and hiking boots fool you—Overly is at heart a practical businessman. He sees the mass adoption of electric vehicles as a marketing problem.
"As much as I like talking about how it's good for America, it's going to have to come down to economics. Cost is king," Overly says.
A Leaf might cost more upfront, but you aren't buying gas, and you aren't changing the oil. Yes, you are paying for the electricity to charge the car, but it's nowhere near the same cost. Nissan estimates charging the car is 12 cents per kilowatt-hour, which is around $3 for a full charge.
That's $3 to drive up to 100 miles. (However, using the air conditioner or the headlights affects your range, so it's unlikely you'll get that far on one charge; the EPA's official range rating is 73 miles.) Even if 100 percent of that electricity is generated by the dirtiest coal-fired power plants, there are still dramatically fewer emissions produced than by driving a regular car. The United States Department of Energy reports that replacing a conventional vehicle with an EV reduces carbon monoxide emissions by 100 percent in urban settings over the life cycle of the vehicle. (In rural settings, though, EVs can actually increase sulfuric oxide emissions, the primary cause of acid rain, up to tenfold.)
Overly's all about cutting emissions—as the director of the ETCFC, he works to promote a number of alternative fuel options, not only emission-free EVs. Overly himself drives a Volkswagen Jetta that runs on biodiesel, but he understands better than most the problem of making a compact car like the Leaf attractive to East Tennessee drivers, like men who love their trucks, even if they only use their truck beds once or twice a year.
"You know that guy in a [Ford] F-150, he can't drive a Prius because he knows his friends would think he's a pansy—they'd laugh at him," Overly says. While he might not have many friends who laugh at him for driving a Jetta, Overly can empathize—his former vehicle was a giant Dodge Ram 2500 truck. Overly says he loved his truck, not the least because it intimidated other drivers.
Then the price of gas went up. One day, Overly says, it cost him $147 to fill up his tank.
"That was when I started planning to get rid of it," he laughs. "I think with EVs, the more we can start showing savings, even without the federal grants, the more sales there will be."
So how many sales could that be? In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called for there to be one million plug-in electric vehicles on the road by 2015, just four years from now. To that end on Tuesday the Department of Energy announced the president's new budget will include a provision that would change the $7,500 tax credit to an up-front rebate, like the Cash for Clunkers program. (It remains to be seen whether Congress will approve the measure.)
Nissan seems to think Obama's goal is not only possible but probable; Nissan Motors CEO Carlos Ghosn told The New York Times in December that he expects the company will sell one million Leafs in six years. But automotive industry analysts are skeptical.
Looking at the market for conventional hybrid cars, they point out it took over a decade for Toyota to sell a million Prius hybrid vehicles. (A Prius plug-in hybrid will hit the U.S. market next year.) A recent study by J.D. Power and Associates forecasts that there will be only 5.3 million electric and hybrid vehicles sold globally by the year 2020—just over 7 percent of all vehicles.
A similar study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance is more optimistic, estimating that plug-in EVs alone have the potential to make up 9 percent of U.S. auto sales by 2020 and 22 percent by 2030. But 9 percent is still only 1.6 million vehicles, and the study notes its estimate assumes both that gas prices rise and battery costs fall dramatically.
Right now, while Nissan has a waiting list of about 20,000 people who want to buy a Leaf, they've sold just 106 cars in the past two months. Although it should be noted, the car is available in only eight states at this point, and the company did announce earlier this week that it would increase production in Japan to speed up fulfilling those orders. (This was shortly after GM announced plans to double the number of its Chevy Volts on the production line for 2012, up to 120,000 cars.)
But, yeah. Tennessee is one of the few places in the country where one can buy what seems to be the first viable, mass-consumer, fully electric car in a century.
Of course, Tennessee did not land this exclusivity because it's likely to be a top market, like Portland or San Francisco. Nissan declined to provide any specifics as to how many of those 20,000 Leaf pre-orders are in Tennessee, but Overly says his understanding is that there have been less than a thousand—"exactly what we expected."
Tennessee will be one of the last states in which GM dealers begin to sell the Volt later this year. And there's not a Tennessee city scheduled as one of the launch markets for the all-electric Ford Focus that will roll out this fall. (Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, and Richmond, however, are.)
No, the Leaf is here because Nissan is here, just outside Nashville. Starting in 2012, the Leaf will be built here, on the Smyrna assembly line, once Nissan finishes building a new manufacturing facility nearby that will construct the vehicle's lithium-ion batteries.
And because those batteries were designed in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and because the Tennessee Valley Authority is one of the nation's largest energy providers, the Leaf will be sold in Knoxville to a handful of buyers (who have been on the waiting list for months now) before it is sold in New York City.
Thus, even if there will be only a few EV owners eagerly waiting for them, Knoxville—along with Nashville and Chattanooga—will become one of the first cities in the country to experiment with the new electric charging station infrastructure.
A 1914 Waverly electric car had a range of 75 miles on a single battery charge. The Nissan Leaf has a touted range of 100 miles. The battery may be lighter than a century ago, but if anything, the "range anxiety" has only gotten worse.
Range anxiety is the industry term for the EV equivalent of that sinking feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you're driving in the middle of nowhere and realize you might run out of gas before you find a filling station. Except no matter how far away from a city you are, you're more likely to happen on a gas station than a charging station. If you do run out of gas, you can call someone to bring you a canister of fuel. Even though you can plug the Leaf into any regular 110-volt electric outlet, you'd be unlikely to find an extension cord long enough to be useful if you run out of power on the side of the road in, say, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Oh, and if you did happen to find a long extension cord and a nearby outlet, it might take you 21 hours to fully recharge your battery.
That's why range anxiety is a real issue, and that's another reason why EVs declined in popularity a century ago: suburbs. But Nissan's director of marketing, Mark Perry, cites statistics that 95 percent of all Americans drive less than 100 miles a day, total. If you charge your car overnight (using a 220-volt home charging station cuts the time down to eight hours or less), Perry says most drivers can go to work and home again, with plenty of range left for a few errands. A similar statistic —that 78 percent of people drive less than 40 miles a day—is the reason for the Volt's purported range 40-mile battery range. (GM's marketing campaign is something along the lines of, "Look, most of you can commute every day emission-free, without even having to use the gas engine, so you'll save a ton on fuel costs. But if you want to go on that road trip to the Smokies, you won't have to worry about being stranded.")
Yet, even if you do have a giant number flashing on the center console telling you exactly how many miles you can drive before your battery is completely drained, there's still that anxiety. What if something unexpected comes up, and you need to run a few extra errands? Where can you charge your car?
These issues are why widespread EV adoption is problematic for a city like Knoxville, which sprawls and sprawls. But stimulus funds from the federal EV Project will place at least 10 (and likely more) municipal charging stations installed at points around town later this year—all at no cost to the city.
"We have this unique position to be cutting edge without having to spend the money to be cutting edge," says Susanna Sutherland, the city's sustainability program manager. The locations aren't yet set in stone, but Sutherland says some possibilities could be the zoo, the airport, Ijams Nature Center, and select parks and libraries.
As part of a different partnership, with ORNL, there will also be two solar-powered charging stations downtown, most likely in the Market Square and Civic Coliseum garages; Sutherland notes non-solar charging stations in a handful of other high-volume locations downtown are also possible.
ECOtality, the company managing the EV Project, will also be providing charging stations to some local businesses—none yet confirmed, but Earth Fare and West Town Mall could be options—and they are installing 24 DC Fast Chargers at Cracker Barrels along the I-24, I-75, and I-40 corridors between Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. If the project stays on schedule, hypothetically you could drive your Leaf from Knoxville to Bonnaroo, charging it during three 30-minutes stops at different Cracker Barrels. But if you want to go to Memphis, you're out of luck.
"Any time you introduce a new technology that involves infrastructure, it's a big deal. It's very complicated," Sutherland notes.
Those complications are what TVA and ORNL are trying to figure out. Although he drove a Model T, Thomas Edison was a proponent of electric cars; he thought more electricity would eventually be sold for cars than for lights. That day is still far off, but having such a small potential test market in Knoxville gives TVA time to prepare for what could happen if EVs sales do soar.
"Can we shift loads so we don't have to build new power plants?" says Chad McGhie, an energy efficiency expert with TVA. "What are the impacts on distributors? The purpose of the project is to understand charging behavior. Like, will there be clustering? We expect clustering."
Clustering, when talking about the electric grid, is what would happen if you and your neighbors all bought EVs, and you all plugged them in at night, at the same time. While electric utilities want to encourage night-charging, when there is less demand on the grid, too much demand on one tiny segment of the grid could potentially have serious consequences, at least for those handful of people in that cluster.
McGhie was talking about this two weeks ago while in the parking lot of the Electric Power Research Institute off Dutchtown Road. It was another catered media event with a handful movers and shakers and a lot of people from TVA and ORNL: It was the launch of the Knoxville area's first EV charging station.
The EPRI site is the first one of the solar charging stations, aka SMART stations (an acronym for Smart Model Area Recharge Terminal). There will be a second one open soon at ORNL; the two downtown stations won't be built until several months of testing have gone by on the pilot projects. The design has solar panels that store electricity underground, which can charge any EVs plugged into the station or be directed back to the electric grid. And since it's connected to the grid, you can still charge your EV on a cloudy day.
Home on the Range
Besides the suits at EPRI, there are a small handful of regular people poking around, examining the charging station and the EVs—although regular might not be precisely the best description.
Take Leslie Grossman, who proudly calls herself both a conservative and a capitalist. She drives a big black Jeep Wrangler, dangerously plastered with Alabama Crimson Tide decals. Under the hood of that Jeep are 12 12-volt lithium-ion batteries.
Or take Jim Coleman, who still seems a little bit in shock to actually be staring at a charging station in a parking lot. "After 30 years, I'm just glad to see this happening," he says. "I really thought electric was going to take off, but the day the fuel crisis was over, it was all canceled."
Coleman and Grossman are two of the 30-plus members of the Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association, a group dedicated not just to promoting mass-consumer EVs but also to making their own. Do-it-yourself EVs have been around as long as cars have, of course. But proponents now see a huge opportunity to increase their popularity—and in doing so, perhaps, convert some of those East Tennessee truck drivers who wouldn't be caught dead in a Leaf.
"Why not a take a classic car, fix it up, and make it electric?" asks David Gill, standing in his workshop out in Heiskell. Gill's a professional welder and a former aircraft mechanic in the United States Air Force. He served in Desert Storm, and that experience is part of the reason he's now so excited about retrofitting cars to be electric.
"I do not like people who hate us, giving our money to them," Gill says, complaining about spending his hard-earned cash on foreign oil. He hasn't built his own EV yet, but he's working on converting a 1989 bright red Blakely Bernardi on behalf of Gary Bulmer, a retired ship captain for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"I don't think of myself as a tree-hugger," Bulmer says. "It's very important to me that we wean ourselves off foreign oil. I'm not the kind of person to sit back and just whine about it. … I don't think we'd have a war on terror if oil weren't a big issue."
And here, according to Overly, is another way to sway the minds of East Tennesseans inclined to write-off EVs as akin to Obamacare: patriotism.
"At what point does pride in America become something you really give a shit about, and do something about it, instead of just waving a flag?" Overly says.
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- February 9, 2011
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PaulScott writes:
Why is it that people consider gas-burning cars a good thing, but cars that run on electricity are somehow a liberal, hippy thing? Are you not aware that we fought the Iraq war because of oil! When you buy gas, 60% of your money leaves our country. How is that patriotic?
When you drive on electricity, all of your money stays domestic.
Electric cars don't pollute, nor do they require much in the way of maintenance. It's very cheap to operate an EV compared to a gas-burner.
Both the LEAF and Volt are incredibly fun to drive. They are about equal to each other in terms of acceleration and handling, and slightly quicker than a 5 series BMW.
They aren't made for cross country driving, but they serve well for virtually all of your daily driving. If you drive less than 100 miles per day, the LEAF will word for you. The Volt will handle long distance driving as well.
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The future of electric vehicles lies in their ability/inability to follow the Blue Rhino model for propane tanks. When I can pull over at any service station or convenience store and quickly swap my depleted battery for a fresh, fully charged one and keep on going, then electric vehicles are ready to seriously compete with liquid fuel vehicles. As long as the fuel souce (the battery) remains an integral part of the product (the car), the future of the EV is, at best, as a family's second car.
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johndesoza1212 writes:
I agree with both paulscott and DumbOldLocal..We need to work hard to use more domestic energy in our transportation and rely less on foreign oil. And for this Electric vehicles are best options..Its good for pollution free environment and solution to high prices of fuel oil.But still I feel that electric cars will become viable only when batteries are made obsolete. These batteries are made from toxic materials which again leads to pollution.Also this batteries too little storage abilities.
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After nearly 30 years of performing, sometimes, some shows just seem to be a string of tricks still. I mean I have worked on individual stories & plots and tie some of the mentalist effects together. Does anyone else have issues with pacing, applaud cues? Can it still be a great show if no one claps (until cued 'Let's give him a big round of applause for helping), but the magic leaves astounded faces & nothing but good words afterwards?!
I know there isn't a bad audience... even though today's performance.. rebooked me in 3 weeks in the same place and offered a handful of possible private shows... still feel something missing at times. A good opener, build, interlude, stronger effect until a good closer (that ties back an opening starting point) and even a fitting encore effect with a closing toast to the crowd I just don't know.. still feel a bit like pushed to MOVE when I'm working at a pace... can still feel I'm missing something performance wise.. well, back to strong magic, beyond secrets, etc books and all the performance orinated DVDs.
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From what you've written it appears that you are doing the right thing.
Having constructed a show piece by piece it may appear to you that there are only the individual building blocks. It may appear different to somone not so concerned with your rehearsal process.
With respect to your concern over audience reaction, do you need rapturous, upstanding, riotous cheering!? Is that the effect you would give having seen another performer doing your show?
It may be a cliché to say but build your show with the intention of leaving your audience either laughing or crying. Tragedy is unusual in magic but not impossible.
So decide how you want to leave your audience and construct your show along that theme.
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Then there's the old credit card scan trick used by unscrupulous checkout clerks at gas stations and stores. Customer hands a credit card to the clerk. Clerk scans card in the reader and says that it "didn't take" on the first try, and scans it a second time. In reality, it DID take the first time and unbeknownst to the customer, the first scan is sitting in the system queue. Clerk rings up the real transaction on the second scan, and later pulls up the first scan to ring up a cashback transaction, pocketing the money. If a clerk ever scans a card and says it didn't work, insist on having that transaction voided (get a slip!) BEFORE letting the clerk scan again. Or better yet, shop at places where the customer scans the card.
The Los Angeles Times has an article on an apparent new trend in identity theft: setting up a wi-fi hotspot with a default name like D-Link or Linksys, put it in a populated place, let people log on for free, and peruse their laptops for valuable personal information. It's a brave new world, an...
There are probably a number of reasons why this is such an uphill battle. I can think of one right away: tradition. Traditional methods are so firmly embedded in legal academia that resistance to technological change is often the norm. For many in the "old guard," the system appears to work just fine as it is, and thus the view that such change is unnecessary. That's just human nature. Perhaps some take the view that "we had to do things the hard way, why should the new people have it any easier?" Certainly there is the concern for security in a testing environment, not to mention the risk of cheating. But there are numerous software utilities available that can be temporarily installed to lock out certain communications functions during a testing session. Or maybe they should just learn to put some trust in law students. What a concept. If we can't trust adults to do the right thing on an exam, how on earth will we trust them later with the real thing -- our clients? Damien's point is spot-on: if we are to send people out into a challenging and rapidly-evolving profession, why don't we give them the tools to succeed at it from the beginning? Cheers. Kevin S. Brady
Beginning in my first semester as a law student, I began lobbying the relevant committees to permit students to use laptops for final exams. My reasoning was that I took class notes on a laptop, drafted my papers on a laptop, and prepared for my exams on a laptop, but at the end of the semester...


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24 Oct 2018
Czech Philharmonic at the Royal Academy of Music
The Czech Philharmonic's collaboration with the Academy is a highlight of Czech Week in London, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. Over the course of two days, the Academy will be alive with activity, including chamber concerts, masterclasses, talks and an Open Academy project working with people living with dementias, culminating in a performance by the Czech Philharmonic conducted by the Academy's Klemperer Chair of Conducting, Semyon Bychkov, in his first season as Chief Conductor and Music Director of the orchestra. The concert opens with Smetana's The Bartered Bride Overture, for which Academy students perform alongside members of the Czech Philharmonic.
A Centenary Retrospective
Wed 24 Oct 2018, 11.00am / David Josefowitz Recital Hall
To celebrate the 100 years of the Czech Philharmonic, Professor Raymond Holden discusses the orchestra's history with Petr Kadlec, Head of Education
Czech Chamber Music
Wed 24 Oct 2018, 1.05pm Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Academy student ensembles perform gems of the Czech chamber music repertoire
Sir Charles Mackerras and the Czech Philharmonic
Wed 24 Oct 2018, 1.05pm / Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Professor Raymond Holden explores the Australian conductor's remarkable relationship with the orchestra using film, sound and marked scores
Czech Philharmonic in Concert
Wed 24 Oct 2018, 7.30pm / Duke's Hall
The Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Semyon Bychkov and joined by Academy students, performs Smetana and Dvorák
More information and booking
Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 5HT
24 Oct 2018
Royal Academy of Music, Embassy of the Czech Republic in London


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From cyclists to wheelchair users and from walkers to buggy-pushers, a new way of experiencing the Ickworth Estate is coming, as the National Trust is given the go ahead to open a new all-weather, multi-use trail.
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This new venture means we can share so much more of the estate with our visitors and we're looking forward to seeing people heading out on the new trail. It is thanks to the support of Sport England, our members, donors and visitors, that we can find new ways to open up the parkland at Ickworth."
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New York State
Division of Housing and Community Renewal
Office of Rent Administration
Gertz Plaza, 92-31 Union Hall St.
Jamaica, New York 11433
Public Information: (718)739-6400
This policy statement is being issued to clarify DHCR's policies
with respect to maintenance of services, for rent stabilized
buildings or accommodations in New York City.
Section 26-514 of the Rent Stabilization Law, as amended by
Chapter 403, Laws of 1983 (Omnibus Housing Act) provides, in
pertinent part, as follows:
In addition to any other remedy afforded by law, any tenant may
apply to the state division of housing and community renewal, for
a reduction in the rent to the level in effect prior to its most
recent adjustment and for an order requiring services to be
maintained as provided in this section, and the Commissioner
shall so reduce the rent if it is found that the owner has failed
to maintain such services...
A substantially similar provision is contained in Section 2523.4
of the Rent Stabilization Code and it applies to all rent
stabilized units including stabilized hotels.
Essentially, a "required service" is one that was furnished on
the base date or one required to be furnished by any state law or
local law, ordinance or regulation applicable to the premises.
These required services may include but are not limited to,
repairs, decorating and maintenance, the furnishing of light,
heat, hot and cold water, elevator services, janitorial services,
and the removal of refuse. In addition to these required
services, hotel stabilized tenants are entitled to receive maid
service, linen service, furniture and furnishings, and staffed
lobby, as part of their required services.
Where a tenant files a complaint alleging the owner's failure to
maintain services and where the owner disputes the allegation, an
inspection of the premises is conducted to determine whether the
owner has failed to maintain services.
Where an inspector finds that required services nave not been
maintained or are absent, DHCR will issue an order listing the
specific services the owner failed to maintain, reducing the rent
and directing the owner to restore the services. In addition,
the owner will be ineligible for any rent increases for the
affected unit or units until the date specified in a rent
restoration order. The order will also include those items
listed in the original complaint which were not found to exist by
the inspector.
However, if prior to an inspection the owner has restored the
service(s) alleged in the tenant's complaint, there is generally
no rent reduction ordered. Additionally, the rent will not be
reduced upon a tenant complaint, or should be restored upon an
owner's application, where there is a finding that a tenant
failed to provide reasonable access.
Whenever a DHCR inspector finds a diminution of service, the rent
shall be reduced in accordance with the Code and law mentioned
above. However there are limited instances where an item listed
in a tenant's complaint is found to exist, but is only a
deficiency that does not equal a reduction in services. Thus, a
rent reduction would not be ordered if the alleged failure to
maintain services involves a minor condition that either occurs
normally despite on-going maintenance or recurs from time to time
and is normally addressed as part of periodic maintenance.
Examples of such conditions are as follows:
1. A burned-out or missing light bulb in a public hallway,
where there are other light bulbs and the illumination has not
dropped to a hazardous level.
2. A small crack in the wall occurring after a paint job.
3. A small paint chip in an enamel appliance.
Such situations, standing alone, would not normally warrant a
finding of a failure to maintain services. However, an Order may
be issued giving the owner thirty days to remedy the condition.
Such condition while initially not a failure to maintain services
may later escalate into a failure to maintain services. That is,
it becomes hazardous or the owner has failed to make the
necessary repairs within a reasonable period of time after the
DHCR Order. If the repair is not made within thirty days, the
tenant may request a follow-up inspection. If the condition has
not been corrected, the rent will be reduced retroactive to the
first of the month following the date of service on the owner of
the tenant's original complaint.
If the original condition is not corrected, an appropriate remedy
including a rent reduction may be ordered, either on a subsequent
complaint, or as part of a compliance proceeding following the
issuance of the Rent Administrator's Order. In such a situation
the retroactive date for the reduction in rent, if ordered, would
be the first of the month following the date of service on the
owner of the tenant's original complaint.
Sections 2523.3 & 4 of the Rent Stabilization Code essentially
provide that where DHCR determines that an owner has failed to
maintain services, such owner shall not be entitled to a rent
restoration until he or she has made an application and DHCR
issues an Order restoring the rent.
As rents are reduced when there is a failure to maintain required
services, likewise, DHCR will issue Orders to restore those rents
after required services as specified in the Rent Reduction Order
have been restored. The rent restoration proceeding is initiated
when an owner files an application affirming that the required
services have been restored. If the tenant consents to the
owner's statement, then the rent is restored. Otherwise, an
inspection is made to determine if the required services have
been restored.
If the Order enumerated a number of conditions that required
correction, such as faulty wiring, a leak, plaster and paint, all
enumerated conditions must be corrected before the rent is
restored. When the condition has not been corrected in a
workmanlike manner, such as breaking a wall to repair a pipe
without fully restoring the wall, including plastering and
painting, the rent shall not be restored until all such work has
been completed. Rents may be restored if the only remaining
condition would not, on its own, constitute a diminution of
services as defined in the "Rent Reduction" section of this memo
Where DHCR issues an Order restoring rent the retroactive date
would be the first of the month following the date of service on
the tenant of the owner's application to restore rent.
Elliot G. Sander
Deputy Commissioner
February 27, 1989
DHCR Policy Statements are **promulgated** (i.e., officially
issued) by the New York State Division of Housing and Community
Renewal (DHCR) and represent **official** policy of the agency.
The agency is generally obligated to follow the policy contained
in these and other documents or provide a rational for deviation;
failure to follow the law, policy or practice may form the basis
for an appeal. Electronic versions of the documents on TenantNet
are for informational purposes only and there is no guarantee
they will be accepted by any court (or even DHCR) as true copies
of DHCR policy. The reader is advised to obtain true copies of
these documents from DHCR. Also see DHCR Advisory Opinions,
DHCR Operational Bulletins, the Rent Stabilization Code, the Rent
Stabilization Law and various Rent Control Statutes.
Every attempt has been made to conform to the original Policy
Statements as issued by DHCR; TenantNet makes no
representation the enclosed material is current or will be
applied as written. The reader is advised that DHCR often fails
to properly apply, interpret or enforce housing laws. Since
housing laws are complex and often contradictory, it is
recommended the reader obtain competent legal advice from a
tenant attorney or counseling from a tenant association or
community group. (rev. 3/13/96) DHCR documents
are public documents; the electronic version of such documents
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and/or proprietary features are copyright 1994, 1995 and 1996 by
TenantNet. These documents may be freely distributed provided they
remain intact as herein presented, including this and the top
informational banner referencing TenantNet as the original provider.
For more information or assistance. call the DHCR Rent Infoline
at (718) 739-6400, or visit your Borough Rent Office.
Queens Central Office
92-31 Union Hall St. 4th Fl.
Jamaica, NY 11433
(718) 739-6400
One Fordham Plaza
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 563-5678
250 Schermerhorn St.
3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 780-9246
Lower Manhattan
156 William Street
9th Floor
(212) 240-6011, 6012
South side of 110th St. and below
Upper Manhattan
163 W. 125th St.
5th Floor
(212) 961-8930
North side of 110th St. and above
Staten Island
350 St. Mark's Place
Room 105
Staten island, NY 10301
(718) 816-0277
Nassau County District Rent Office
50 Clinton Street, 6th Floor
Hempstead, NY 11550
(516) 481-9494
Westchester County District Rent Office
55 Church Street, 3rd Floor
White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 948-4434
Rockland County District Rent Office
94-96 North Main St.
Spring Valley, NY 10977
(914) 425-6575
Albany Regional Office
119 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
(518) 432-0596
Buffalo Regional Office
Ellicot Square Building
295 Main St., Room 438
Buffalo, NY 14203
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Rhoda Lynette Matthews, age 58 formerly of Goodlettsville, Tennessee passed away November 28, 2018. A memorial service will be conducted at 11:00am Monday December 3, 2018 at Unity Missionary Baptist, 4029 Cedar Cir. Nashville, TN. 37218 with Pastor Alton W. Hayes officiating. Visitation will be begin at 10:00am, 1 hour prior to the service.
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