There’s been an ongoing saga over the past year about the legality of sites like Airbnb, where people can rent out part or all of their apartment to short-​term guests. The city views these as “illegal hotels”, emphasis on the illegal, while Airbnb and the “hosts” say it shouldn’t be considered the same, and are trying to get the laws changed.

With all that going on, The New York World have put together, amongst other things, a map of all of the complaints about potential illegal hotels across the city from Independence Day through to the October 1^st, and there’s a lot. This comes to us via our “neighbors to the north”, West Side Rag.

Head over to the full article for more about the whole Airbnb vs New York saga in general. It’s quite an ordeal.