Airbnb vs. New York: A Fight Over What It Means to Share
These days, when Ken Podziba answers his phone and it's a stranger on the other line, he has a pretty good idea of What they're calling about before they start talking. The owner of an eight-unit apartment building in Manhattan, Podziba is search-engine famous in New York for how he dealt with a tenant who sublet her apartment via Airbnb, and he frequently hears from other owners, landlords, and building supervisors who suspect they have a tenant doing the same. If something goes wrong — a party breaks out, somebody gets robbed, the cops show up, someone slips and falls — it's **t the tenant, or some sharing-eco**my guru in Silicon Valley, who's going to be held responsible. Read more...