NYC once again follows Boston’s lead – smoke-free housing on tap

New York City is about to get its first smoke-free apartment building. According to CBS-2 News:

[S]ome apartment buildings are now banning smoking for new tenants. Existing tenants who smoke will be allowed to continue to puff away.

“We feel that you’re impacting, in a rental, so many people around you that we would like to offer the public an opportunity to live in a smoke-free environment,” said Kinne Yon of Kenbar Management, which runs the building that will house 298 units.

Boston already has a smoke-free residential building – the Macallen building, in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston. The condominium building is a “LEED-certified” building. One of the qualifiers it chose to meet was making the building smoke-free. Owners are not allowed to smoke inside or outside the building. (Owners in its twin-sister, the Court Square Press building are not affected by the rule.)

Units in the Macallen building include bamboo floors, considered a sustainable source, and the bathrooms are equipped with dual-flush toilets, allowing users to decide how much water to use, depending on need.

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