I appreciate tourist dollars because they use few of the city services but help employment and the economy. Last year New York absorbed almost 54 million visitors. BUT, they should not select which laws they wish to obey and which they do not.

I live in one of the neighborhoods that the NYS AG claims has more Airbnbs than most. It changes the fabric of the area and you have a constant change of people in your building.

So, I will ask, a second question to non-NY'ers, would you like your next door neighbor to be changing as a much as weekly?

There simply is no denying the truth: Renting out an apartment for less than 30 days (while not being present in your apt) is ILLEGAL.

The owners/lessors who do so should be identified and fined. AirBnB should be prohibited from listing illegal sublets.

Don't like it? Vote for leaders who will change the law. Until then....

Of course I would not want someone moving in and out of my building weekly.

One part of the issue that irritates me is that when discussing this (mostly Paris, but NYC too) someone always mentions that there were no problems with staying at their (most likely illegal) rental.

All that means is that the landlord got over.

Rents are ridiculously high in NY and not even every one has recovered from 2008, so it is tempting.

My small SoCal beach town has recently banned home/apartment rentals for any period less than 30 days.

Investors were buying homes with the express purpose of offering them for short-term rental which created situations where other home owners found themselves suddenly living next door to, essentially, hotels. There was no policing of how many people stayed in the home (versus the listed occupancy number), so some places just became noisy party houses with a dozen or more people and 6-8 cars taking up already scarce parking. For those of us involved in Neighborhood Watch, it became impossible to know who 'belonged' in the area and who didn't.

I'm sure there will still be cheaters and not much city oversight. I don't know what penalties will be assessed, but they had better be huge because the rental income is huge.

Well, many of the legal tenants in these buildings Do object to having a long line of random strangers parading through their buildings. These strangers are given keys or fobs to enter the building and I'm sure often do not return them. So now there are who knows how many people who can gain easy access - making security non-existent.

One things many co-ops and condos have done is use door locks that can be opened only by fobs - and the tenant must get these from the managing office or super - meaning they can't make up 20 or more new keys every year. But obviously most landlords don't want to pay to install this system.

And I can;t imagine that there are so many NYers who want to meet different random strangers in the hall every time they do to put trash in the compacter chute or recyclables in the bin.