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The investigationcontinues at the Greenpoint Terminal Market. We thought this quote from a Department of Environmental Protection workerin the Daily News summed it up well: "It looks like an atomic bomb hit it. This looks like a war zone. Everything's totally burned down. Fuhgeddaboudit." One concern is that the buildings will collapse, since the structures have been so devastated by the fire, so the Fire Department is going to start tearing down some buildings. In the Times, Baruch Singer, the unsucessful purchaser of the land, is profiled, and it's not pretty:

"Baruch Singer has a long history of putting tenants at jeopardy," said Jonathan Rosen, a spokesman for Housing Here and Now, a coalition of tenants, housing advocates, labor unions and clergy members. "He has among the worst records of any landlord in the city of complying with the housing code and ensuring that his buildings are safe and habitable."

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- Rescue Me will begin its third season on May 30 - and they were just filming in Harlem!

Julie Miles, Housing Here and Now

The housing rights group Housing Here and Now just announced a list of the city's top ten worst landlords, as well as the corresponding website, NYC's Worst Landlords. You can read a PDF of the report which details how the apartments are rife with vermin, building problems, and more, as well as let Housing Here and Now know if your landlord is a slumlord. While many people have landlord horror stories, the ones in the PDF are really insane: "leaks, broken windows, defective plumbing, mildew, broken and defective plaster, gaping holes in ceilings and floors, insect infestation," cats roaming the halls, attacking tenants, ceilings collapsing... you name it.