'Slumlike Conditions' in Foreclosed Slope Building
The Daily News had an article on a group of tenants who live in 294 Fifth Avenue in the Slope and say conditions in the rent-controlled building have deteriorated since the property went into foreclosure a couple years ago and a receiver was appointed to take care of it. The building’s boiler, for example, didn’t…
The Daily News had an article on a group of tenants who live in 294 Fifth Avenue in the Slope and say conditions in the rent-controlled building have deteriorated since the property went into foreclosure a couple years ago and a receiver was appointed to take care of it. The building’s boiler, for example, didn’t work for three weeks this winter, and the front-door lock is broken. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio held a news conference yesterday to support the tenants in seeking a court order that would force the receiver to make repairs. According to the article: “The slumlike conditions at 294 Fifth Ave. spotlight a growing concern: smaller apartment buildings that fall into disrepair in part because the building is overleveraged. ‘We think this is a growing problem around the city that the banks and lenders are not taking responsibility for,’ said de Blasio.”
Park Slope Tenants, de Blasio Team Up to Force Building Repairs [NY Daily News]
that dude is wishing he’d went before he came down to protest
The more I look at this photograph,
the more disturbing it seems to get.
There is clearly a guy in the foreground
wearing gabardine pants and playing pocket pool.
I wonder what Charlie Rangel thinks about all this????
Can we all agree that he may be the worst of the worst in abusing this system????
By benson on May 10, 2011 2:18 PM
The guy behind the person holding the sign looks like he has no idea why he is there. Probably is a friend of a friend who was asked to come in and just go with the flow.
Like most of the union picket lines.
“I want to know why the sign isn’t writen in English.”
That’s what the artist’s rendering of the building on the sign is for. The bigger question is what Conan O’Brien is doing at the back of the line and why he feels entitled to a RC apartment.
lamb – I think it may be an olive demonstration based on the words of the sign
quote:
I want to know why the sign isn’t writen in English.
cuz having it written in spanish packs a bigger political punch.
*rob*
Who’s that white dude in the upper left hand corner?
Is that Luke Wilson?
I don’t know why these Hollywood types don’t stick to what they know best: vapid ennui.
Br00klynguy – I’ve done it many times – THEY (professional deadbeats) are a minority but they are criminals none the less, and our system perpetually rewards them.