DOB Shuts Down Another W'burg Loft Building
Another Williamsburg loft building bites the dust. According to The Brooklyn Paper, the six-story structure at 571 Metropolitan Avenue (at Lorimer) was ordered vacated by the Department of Buildings on Thursday, leaving some 40-odd residents without a place to live. (The DOB file for the building lists both a Partial Stop Work Order and a…
Another Williamsburg loft building bites the dust. According to The Brooklyn Paper, the six-story structure at 571 Metropolitan Avenue (at Lorimer) was ordered vacated by the Department of Buildings on Thursday, leaving some 40-odd residents without a place to live. (The DOB file for the building lists both a Partial Stop Work Order and a Full Vacate Order in effect.) “We’re young, we don’t have savings,” said one of the displaced residents. “We had no idea about the problems here. The tenants are suing the owner of the building, which has over 150 violations on it–64 from the DOB for structural issues and another 94 from the ECB.
Williamsburg Artists Evicted in Crackdown [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo from Property Shark
This is Third Ward! Yes!
Well, they won’t take this sitting down. Shouldn’t they all get a lawyer asap and get a stay so they’re not out on the street?
doesn’t third ward lease out studio space in this bldg?
i do feel bad for the people living there, but the picture of those 2 dudes with their stuff in the elevator is so funny…..
these landlords are criminals. no sugar coating it. i will say, though, a bit of buyer beware should be in order. If you don’t have a residential lease and can’t get residential cable, electricity or phone service, well, duh.
Does a landlord make money if his building is empty? Why own a building if you won’t maintain it? Bringing a building up to code is the reality in NYC. It goes with the territory.
We are young.
Heart ache to heartache, we stand.
No promises, no demands.
Love is a battlefield.
— Pat Benetar
Anyways, with the new loft laws, does it make any sense for a landlord to try and comply? Isn’t it better (for the landlord) to have the tenants evicted because the conditions are too hazardous than to be stuck with them and therefore forced to bring the building up to code?