Throwing a party in an unoccipied apartment in your building: C/D?

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I've got an unlocked, empty, huge duplex apartment below my first-floor joint in a brownstone in Manhattan. There has been no broker through, no traffic of prospective renters taking open houses, nothing for the past six months. The landlord just can't rent it.

So, I'm thinking when I have my annual Memorial Day party and wheel in kegs and enormous speakers, we should put everything in the basement part of the lower-level duplex in order to a) have a ton more space b), provide a protective, two-floor barrier between the extremely loud noise and the blind crazy woman on the second floor and c) show all my friends the great space they could rent. The place could use a good cleaning anyway, which of course I'd do afterward, and I doubt my friends would put their fists through walls or blow up the toilets.

I know I'm just trying to legitimize criminal trespass, but it's a damn good argument, right?

Also let me mention the last time we had a party we had a keg on the stoop and people were five deep on the sidewalk drinking and noone, neighbors, police, gave a damn.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Why don't you just ask the landlord if you can rent it out for a day or a weekend or a week? They aren't making money off of it so they might say yes and that way no legal issues can possibly crop up.

OTOH if they say no you're not going to be able to do it cos they'll probably be monitoring.

― ALlyzay, Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

You know your landlord better than I do, but if I was going to do something sort of illegal, I wouldn't do it in my own building .. uh, for fear of getting evicted, mmm?

― driede mousedropping (Dave225), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

i'm curious, why hasn't it been rented?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

because of the GOLEM

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I did this, checking with the super and tenants (not the landlord).
It was cool.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I know right off the bat the landlord wouldn't be for volunteering to rent it for the night. I'd have a much easier time explaining things away the next day than pleading with him beforehand beforehand.

They're asking a bit much for it (2150$ month), and the lower level is still subfloor, there's no wood flooring down. It's a great apartment, with a garden and two bathrooms, but I can see why people wouldn't pay that much.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

if they say no you're not going to be able to do it cos they'll probably be monitoring.

tho he could try giving them a bogus date e.g. 'around the last week of July' and then stage it well in advance of that

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

DO IT SO CLASSIC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

It's not like cops ask to see your lease when you get shut down. They'll just assume you live there. You'll be cool (unless land lord drops by in the middle of the night)

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I went to a rad empty-nest party in Chico once. Punks all over with cheap twelvers, screwing in the bathroom... no a stick of furniture in the pad. I say CLASSIC.

― andy --, Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC. If no one in the building minds, then just make sure you get rid of any incriminating evidence afterward and you're good to go.

― sugarpants: new and improved! (sugarpants), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

oh shit i need a place to crash for the next week... ... ... ...

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

what's up, phil?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

oh the dude living in the apt im supposed to move into hasnt moved out yet and is squatting. so the landlord has to evict him which is gonna take awhile.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

anyways that setup sounds like lots of fun. you should do it. and invite us.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Of course. Memorial day weekend, Saturday night. Details tk.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Haha!

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 June 2010 22:34 (fifteen years ago)

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