70 Lefferts Place Now a Hostel
It’s been a rough few years for 70 Lefferts Place, or, more precisely, the developer who’s owned it for the last four and a half years. To refresh, the house traded for $2,400,000 in May 2006 and soon thereafter plans were announced to tear down the Civil War-era gem. A last-minute effort to landmark the…
It’s been a rough few years for 70 Lefferts Place, or, more precisely, the developer who’s owned it for the last four and a half years. To refresh, the house traded for $2,400,000 in May 2006 and soon thereafter plans were announced to tear down the Civil War-era gem. A last-minute effort to landmark the house ended up being successful, with the designation being finalized in December 2006. Within a month, the property was back on the market. It never sold, though, and in April 2009 a Lis Pendens (the first step in the foreclosure process) was filed, revealing that the owner was on the hook for a $2,010,000 loan. We hadn’t heard much about the property since then until a few days ago when a neighbor brought this online listing for a hostel to our attention. According to the website, for $25 a night, you can have a spot in one of the many bunkbeds. The only problem is that this place doesn’t have a C of O for a hotel or even a rooming house, as far as we can tell. We also bet that the lenders would be curious to know how much the owner is renting out the place to the hostel operators for.
Is a nursing home still planned for the vacant lot next door?
45 comments in 2 hours. Most complaining about Brownstoner blowing the whistle on this place. 2 minutes on the DOB site and you can see that someone complained last February and the issue was forwarded to the Mayor’s office. Brownstoner is announcing a secret that the city has known about for 11 months.
A complaint about use contrary to the C of O was referred to the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement on 2/24/10 so if the operator gets busted, it won’t be Brownie’s fault.
The fact that almost a year has passed since then seems to validate dh’s observation, “not much the DOB can do about them.”
lol
*rob*
Yeah, all fun and games until some Asian chick gets her eye gouged out.
“A bunch of kids from Oslo and Munich, in town for a couple of nights, are hardly the Wild Bunch. . . . What’s the big deal?”
Invoking Godwin’s Law (sorry MM!): Yeah, cuz it’s not like a bunch of kids from Munich have ever caused any trouble before!!
ouchies!
“one of your precious little butterchurner brooklyn flea vendors”
ZING!
OK, I’ll bite…
If you are gonna call out the lack of C/O you haven’t researched in the original post… why wasnt fire, safety and sprinklers part of the original post also?
Methinks, just based on personal experience, that there is more here than meets the eye. They only do 4 nights or more. Think about that.
And, OMG, someone turned on utilities under cover of night. Clearly, again w/out any research, cause for a criminal enterprise. ham sandwich alert. Indict!!!
I know that hotels in Park Slope were charging upwards of $300 per night last week. More power to these guys. When it turns hot sheets… then nail’em. Till then … let it grow. Its $25 per night for a bunk bed. If there aren’t heroin addicts on your stoop and they aren’t rummaging through your garbage… leave it alone. You know as well as I do that if they, as a landmark building, asked for a zoning variance they would get it.