Exclusive: NYC Brings Court Action Against Which Violation-Ridden Brooklyn Apartment Buildings?
March 4, 2010 by Neil · Leave a Comment
NY1 broke the story. The Real Deal linked to it. But where exactly is the violation-riddled Brooklyn apartment building? No one has disclosed this. Until now.
Multifamily Investor reports exclusively, for the first time, that in fact it is not one, but two, Brooklyn apartment buildings. Tenants organized a tour of both multifamily properties for press [...]
Top 5 Lessons For Future Brooklyn Multifamily Mortgage Fraudsters
March 3, 2010 by Neil · 1 Comment
If only Mavis Samuel, 41, and Carlyle Ebanks, 55, installed a sprinkler system in that Brooklyn multifamily with their ill-gotten proceeds…
The duo were convicted of selling the same multifamily twice, which isn’t a crime, unless you’re involving straw buyers.
That can get you up to 15 years in prison, like Ebanks and Samuel face.
In September, [...]
What 9-Story Brooklyn Residential Building Development May Help Solve the Double Murder of an Attorney and His Wife?
February 24, 2010 by Neil · 1 Comment
20 Tiffany Place is a newly built 9-story, 26-unit condo development in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
Divorce lawyer Mark Schwartz, 50, and mediator Christina Petrowski-Schwartz, 48, were fatally shot in the bedroom of their home in the Marine Park Section of Brooklyn in June, 2008. Their German Shepherd was found tied up outside, [...]
When A Brooklyn Apartment Building In Foreclosure Provides No Heat or Hot Water…
February 21, 2010 by Neil · Leave a Comment
That is the nightmare facing the tenants of a 4-story prewar walkup apartment building in Bed Stuy, located at 874 Greeene Avenue. First, the senior mortgage holder moved to foreclose upon the owner, who was not adequately addressing the tenants’ needs. Then, a court appointed a receiver, BPC Management, to make repairs and collect rent. [...]
Warren Buffett and the Brooklyn Apartment Building Fatal Fire
February 16, 2010 by Neil · 2 Comments
If Warren Buffett was spotted, fleeing from the scene of January’s tragic Bensonhurst apartment building fire, wreaking of kerosene, it would be easy to figure out who to sue. Most arsonists, however, are not Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. As a result, personal injury lawyers go after the deepest pocket. That pocket belongs to the [...]
Touch A Brooklyn Apartment Building From The Subway…in 1969
February 4, 2010 by Neil · 1 Comment
Once upon a time, the Myrtle Street el train soared from Jay Street-Borough Hall to Metropolitan Avenue-Queens. In 1969, the elevated subway line was dismantled, but not before Theresa King and 1000 other passengers took the last midnight ride. As you can see from the pictures on her website, you could actually stick your arm [...]
Arsonist Nabbed in Deadly Brooklyn Apartment Building Fire
February 2, 2010 by Neil · 2 Comments
Daniel Ignacio told police investigators that while he was drunk, he used paint thinner to ignite a roll of toilet paper on fire with a cigarette lighter inside a baby carriage in the stairwell of his apartment building. Ignacio then went to sleep, and woke up to find his Bensonhurst building at 2033 86th Street [...]
