Things that are harder than they should be: identifying the landlord of a New York City apartment building. Inspired by a Village Voice story on tracking down slumlords, a group of web designers called The Great Urban Hack have created Who is My Landlord?, a site that allows users to look up the landlord of any building in the city. (A phone app is apparently next.) We took it for a brief spin, and the site so far contains only the most basic information: the landlord's LLC name and the number of violations against the building. Links to those violations, and more specific information about landlords' identities, would be helpful. Still, it's a potentially useful addition to the pool of slumlord tracking tools.
· Official Website: Who is My Landlord? [whoismylandlord.org]
· 'Who's My Landlord?' Cover Story Inspires Useful Website, App [Village Voice]
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