Good Samaritan Helps 94-Year Old Facing Eviction

Remember Dominick Diomede? He's the 94-year old man that was about to be evicted from the apartment that's been his home for the last twenty years. There was quite a discussion on our comments after Gothamist wrote about his plight.

Diomede was to leave the apartment by January 22nd, but a good Samaritan has come forward with $2000. The money will allow Diomede to stay in his current apartment until the end of February while he looks for a new place to live. The anonymous Samaritan also offered to help Mr. Diomede pay rent once he finds a new apartment.

The Brooklyn Paper reported yesterday that there has been an outpouring of support for Diomede. Carroll Gardens Councilman Bill DeBlasio is working to get Diomede a subsidized apartment from a Park Slope non-profit, strangers have offered cash assistance, and a Red Hook moving company has offered to move Mr. Diomede's limited possessions for free. Mr. Diomede, who wants to remain in the neighborhood --he was born on Luquer St. said, "There are many people out there trying to help. I really appreciate it."

Photograph by Gersh Kuntzman for The Brooklyn Paper

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By Joe Schumacher in News on January 21, 2007 11:36 AM

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Richard W.

WNBC just ran a report showing Dominick Diomede moving into his new apartment.

Teddy N.

And how that area demands 2000 a month for a 4 floor walk up half a block away from the BQE is another matter of what's gone wrong in this nabe.

The party can't last forever for these greedy mother...

Summit Streeter

Movers and Shakers on the newly paved Columbia Street and Hamilton Ave.

Anya

This is very cool, thanks for the follow-up! If you could tell us the name of the moving co., I would love to know it if you do. That sounds like a business I would like to support (if they do moves in other boroughs... maybe they don't).

Karensfo

Jesus will help him :)

Rrrrright....

Summit Streeter

The Gallo kids who inherited the house should be ashamed of themselves. The mortgage is almost surely paid off unless THEY took a 2nd mortgage out on it... so this is just a matter of greed, and greed on a 94 year old man who was best friends with the family that left you the house pretty much assures them a nice place in hell or at least a bad run of karma. And how that area demands 2000 a month for a 4 floor walk up half a block away from the BQE is another matter of what's gone wrong in this nabe.

People around here are outraged.

RicktheCabbie

I knew it would work out once the word got out.

The Self- Correcting Universe at work.

"There are 2 ways to live your life: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is a miracle." -Einstein