Crown Heights Tenants Protest Eviction and Deregulation of Rent-Stabilized Housing
By Oscar Fock, Brooklyn Paper In 40 degree weather and drizzling rain, a crowd gathered in Crown ...
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Crown Heights Tenants Fight for Control of Their Building After Years of No Repairs
By Jada Camille, Brooklyn Paper Tenants of a Crown Heights building who got their landlord ousted...
Neighbors Testify to Climate of Fear, Threatening Behavior in Crown Heights Landlord Harass Trial
Maria Flores’ elderly father was home alone when a man with a dog climbed from the rear of neighbo...
‘All I’m Asking Is for a Normal Life,’ Crown Heights Tenant Pleads in Harassment Trial
Francis Roberts fought back tears in the witness stand of a Brooklyn courtroom Thursday as he explai...
Crown Heights Landlord Harassment, A Living Hell, Includes Sewage, Drug Deals: Lawsuit
Over the past six months, 76-year-old Park Place tenant Francis Roberts says he has had sewage bubbl...
Court Grants Tenants Calls for Takeover From Crown Heights Slumlord
A Brooklyn Housing Court judge removed the owner of 567 St. John's Place in Crown Heights from manag...
Rent Stabilized Tenants Likely to Face Rent Hikes of Up to 6 Percent Following Divisive Rent Boards Vote
The city’s roughly 2.4 million rent stabilized tenants could face an annual rent increase of up to...
Crown Heights Family Fights Eviction From Their Brownstone Home of Over 70 Years
Three generations of the Robinson-Torain family have called a brownstone in Crown Heights their home...
With End of Eviction Moratorium Looming, Housing Activists Fight for Extension and Winter Ban
Tenants and housing activists marched through Brooklyn and Manhattan on Saturday, calling for an ext...
Tenants Protest Lack of Accessibility at Crown Heights Building
For months, Crown Heights tenants have demanded that the building’s management company build a ram...
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