The Graffiti on the Nederlander Theater- Page 7

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 4/20/08 at 1:10pm

And then the owners are fined for bad business.

As long as the tenants are renting, they are not responsible for anything beyond the door to their apartment. Any common areas of the building are the responsibility of the owner. The exception might be if there is specific damage that the owner knows was caused by a specific tenant.

Why should the owners have to pay to clean the walls when the producers are renting and even have money for the purpose of fixing things like that?

The producers are out in September and then they don't have to worry about it. The owners would like to get another tenant after that and I'm sure they don't want all potential tenants to be turned off by graffiti. If they want to start shopping their theater around now, they have every right to make the producers pay to clean the walls.

Seriously, stop while you're...well, you're not ahead, so just stop.

[winston89]

Posted: 4/20/08 at 10:11pm

But, the thing is that it depends on the language of the lease. There is art on the walls. so it could say in the lease of the Nederlander that because they did paint on the walls as part of the original lease of the theater that the grafffiti or anything else on the walls has to be cleaned up by the producers.

But, we don't know what the producers have agreed upon in the lease with the Nederlanders. It does change from theatre to theatre to producer to producer. Yes, a theatre is rented by the producer and is virtually empty and the producer has to bring it to its original condition when the show leaves. But, to what exact condition they have to bring it back to and all that is negotiated in the lease.

We don't know if the producers wanted the graffiti cleaned off and so they did it or if the Nederlanders wanted it gone and so they got rid of it. But, the owners of the theatre can't just force the producers to clean it up because they own the building. it will have to be whatever is in the lease.

[wheelsinmotion]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 5:37pm

They're going by after every show and painting over all the grafitti. Pretty sure that's a good sign to stop, children.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 5:48pm

That's good, I say just have a sign and have the cast announce after the show, "DON"T WRITE ON THE THEATRE YOU LITTLE PRICKS!!"

[Anakela]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 5:51pm

They're going by after every show and painting over all the grafitti. Pretty sure that's a good sign to stop, children.

I swear I read this as "They're going by after every show and painting all the children." and thought well maybe that's the way to get people to stop with their graffiti...

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 6:50pm

I really don't understand the facination with writing on walls and other places that aren't meant to be written on. I mean, you wouldn't do it at your own home, so why do it in public? I say we find where these fanatical or just stupid people live and write on their house to see what they think. LOL!