The subpoena and accompanying blizzard of media coverage sent shudders through the ranks of Airbnb users in New York City. Journalist Seth Porges had been renting out a spare bedroom in his two-story duplex in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since 2010, before Williamsburg was fashionable. At the time his apartment was so geographically inconvenient he had to pitch its proximity to the L Train just so he could fulfill a “bizarre fantasy of being an innkeeper in the countryside and meeting all these amazing characters as they saunter into town.” Two years later, when he was laid off from the men’s
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