The Daily News has a few more details on the deal the City cut with scumbag hotel operator Moses Fried last week. First of all, the owner of the Lefferts Hotel was only fined a token $2,500. As we reported last week, the deal will eliminate the hourly business as well as require the hotel to install video cameras in the lobby, hire security guards and post signs warning that prostitution is illegal. The police will also have the right to search the hotel without a warrant – excluding occupied rooms – for a year. Lastly, Fried must also bring the building up to code before reopening. “It’s an excellent settlement for the City of New York,” said NYPD lawyer Mohamed Quhshi. We shall see.

In other Clinton Hill news, two people were shot at 1 a.m. on Sunday at the corner of Gates and Downing–only a block from the police lock-down on Grand Avenue. A 21-year-old man named Terry McNichols was killed when a gunman fired several shots into a group of people on the corner; an unnamed woman was hit in the foot.
Sleaze Hotel Deal Suite for City [NY Times]
Man Shot on Downing and Gates [NY Times]