Update on the Lefferts Hotel?

Brownstoner and the Brownstoner Community:

It is now quite apparent as to the source of all of the aggravating troll posts on every PLG and Lefferts Hotel thread. The truth was smacking us dead in the face all along and everyone missed the connection!

The Prince Hotel Group (aka Moses Fried) owns the Lefferts and Pleasant Stay Hotels in Clinton Hill. He also owns 205 Parkside Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Garden. Mr. Fried had intentions to turn the huge massive building at 205 into an “Apartment Hotel/SRO”, i.e., a whorehouse/drug den, just like the Lefferts Hotel. But luckily, the PLG community caught wind of his plan and, being well aware of the happenings at the Lefferts Hotel, quickly organized and prevented Mr. Fried from obtaining the necessary variance to get his hotel built.

Moses Fried is not a stupid man. He knows fully well that he cannot run a successful whorehouse in an area that is pristine and decent so he chooses locations that are predominately black and poor. Well as it turns out he seriously underestimated the speed at which gentrification would spread throughout brownstone Brooklyn and now finds himself holding on to some pretty significant assets that he can no longer use in the manner intended.

Obviously, Mr. Fried could sell his buildings or convert them to either condos or apartment rentals. However, running a flophouse is a pure cash business, and there is a lot of untraceable and “non-taxable” money to be made in the whorehouse/drug den/SRO business (great for drugs, illegal money laundering, etc.), not to mention the lucrative City contracts to house the homeless; people he tries to turn into crack addicts and hookers. Given such strong economic considerations, Moses Fried has no interest to do anything other than what he initial intended to do with these buildings – run them as drug and sex emporiums.

In order for his illicit business to exist and thrive, Mr. Fried needs the local community to be passive, indifferent and complacent and also vilified and perceived as a dangerous threat to the outside world. Why? Well he needs to scare away any potential activist minded gentrifiers and dormant black sympathizers who might attempt to derail his plans and hurt his business. In addition, he needs to create an environment where lawless and a criminal element can be nurtured and promoted. And guess what? For the past two years, Moses Fried and his goons at the Prince Hotel Group have been doing everything in their power to derail community efforts to clean up the areas around their hotels. They allowed their properties to fail into tremendous state of disrepair in an effort to invite filth and blight to the community and drive out decent hardworking residents. They’ve approached numerous property owners in the immediate area and offered to relieve them of the burden of living in the “ghetto” by graciously attempting to purchase their homes at 1985 prices. And last but not least, they’ve been on Brooklyn blogsites all over the web bashings nabes like Clinton Hill and PLG non-stop in an effort to derail gentrification and any other positive community development that might endanger their business. He knows very well that without a cesspool to call home, his hooker hotels could not exist.

By now everyone on this board should know that this troll is clearly under the employ of the Prince Hotel Group. I went back through about 25 threads on PLG and the Lefferts Hotel and witnessed the same troll tirelessly and systematically sabotaging every board with respect to these two areas. By virtue of his writing style, tone and penchant for praising, talking to, and arguing with himself, it became abundantly clear that the PLG troll and Lefferts Hotel troll are two of the same. Given these desperate measures, I can only surmise that Mr. Fried finds himself in quite a dire predicament. I’m happy to see that Mr. Fried and his minions are finally feeling some real heat and succumbing to the pressure. Hopefully, in a few years they’ll also feel the solitude and coldness of a federal prison cell.

Trust me. There is a huge case here. I sense it. And at some point this house of cards will come crashing down.

Sincerely,

Former Assistant United States Attorney
The Criminal Division of the US Attorney Office
for the Eastern District; with many friends and contacts still on the job.

2:26 Can you shed somelight to what is happening every sat morning on the corner of classon and fulton? Every time I drive by around 8am I notice a very large crowd. I’m not sure if they’re gathering every day but i only notice on sat.

“While we’re at it, let’s take the poverty card out of the game.

And the HIV card.
And the disability card.”

What a fool.
I didnt know the lefferts hotel had high speed internet connectivity. how are you keeping up with the thread?

Yeah, well, maybe he needs warm milk and a nap, but he pretty much made the whole anti-hotel crowd look like a bunch of bumbling, sputtering imbeciles. It was beautiful, actually. If I knew who this person is, I’d hire him!