Jackson Heights Life

It seems that Verizon laid the FIOS cable on 35th avenue at 74th street. I asked the Super about this and he said we are not getting FIOS. What are the rules/laws about getting FIOS into a building? Is there a city agency that oversees these things?

I haven't looked into FIOS, but did ask my super about DirecTV last year. He explained that the building was open to it, but in order to get it we'd need to round up 35 units to commit - that's about 20% of the building's units. I imagine the building would have a similar policy for FIOS. It makes sense. There's a certain amount of building infrastructure that would need to be upgraded - cabling to all floors, ports on the roof, and for DirecTV they'd need to install and maintain the dishes as well. Seems like an expensive endeavor if only a handful of people are interested. The super also mentioned that he had tried to drum up interest a few years ago - he had wanted DirecTV to get some soccer channels - and he was only able to get 5 signatures. So we didn't bother. But I imagine this is a common policy.

Keep in mind, this is a rental building. I imagine co-ops have a lot more flexibility to bring in new technology if they can get the board to approve and if they're willing to shell out the $.