For those of us who’ve been following this story for the last year or so, there wasn’t much new info in yesterday’s article on the scandalous Spencer Street condo situation. Just that the process has inched along to the point where the developers, a group that includes such beacons of the community as Mendel Brach, Moshe Okin and Moses Roth, have agreed to transfer 26,025 square feet of air rights from other properties on the block to help make up for their deceit in filing the Spencer building as a educational housing while simultaneously filing with the Attorney General to convert it to condos. Unfortunately for the owners of the condos who are now stuck in limbo with no final C of O, there are still fire code issues that the developer needs to remedy and it sounds like it won’t be done anytime soon. We share the condo owners shock that the Attorney General isn’t coming down hard on these developers. How about some jail time, Eliot? The DOB, as usual, ain’t looking too good through all of this either.
At Spencer Street, Solution Meets Skepticism [NY Times]
Lock Him Up and Throw Away the Key [Brownstoner]