[brooklyn_ashey]

It comes down to: in NYC the landlords don't have to provide services in order to demand really high rents. They do the absolute least amount they can for the tenant while still being able to collect huge rents. We have a housing crisis which makes it a greedy landlord's market. Also, unless the unit is listed in the lease as a service, the LL is required to provide, the LL has no obligation to fix even the machines in a building's laundry room. So, they let them break and don't fix them because there is nothing a renter can do about it except break their lease. The rental market is so bad in NYC, that landlords will often not provide services that are required by law (heat, hot water) just to see if they can get away with it. They often do, as NYC tenants, especially new city residents, have no idea what their legal rights are.

[martinald]

The housing crisis in London is far worse. Salaries are (vastly, in many cases) lower and rents (pre brexit GBP/USD crash, at least) are very similar in nominal terms. You do have washers in nearly every flat, though.

[brooklyn_ashey]

That is terrible. I can't really imagine it being worse than here. Landlords are asking tenants to front 3-6 months in "security deposit" now, and tenants have to go to court to get it back when they leave. I'm so sorry it is worse in London. Well, at least you guys have clean clothes and free healthcare! I do think about moving to London after watching a whole season of Endeavour or Sherlock. That wallpaper in Sherlock is the bomb.