Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'tenants'
May 27, 2008
Photograph of Stuyvesant Town by Marianne O'Leary on Flickr The turmoil at Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village continues, as behemoth real estate developer Tishman Speyer Properties, is flushing out rent-stabilized tenants who it believes do not live in Stuy Town-Peter Cooper anymore. It's an old refrain: Tishman claims many tenants are subletting their apartments and abusing the system, while tenants say the developer is harassing them in order to lease the apartments to market-rate tenants--average......
Continue Reading "Tishman Goes After Stuy Town's Rent Stabilized Abusers"April 4, 2008
Rendering of proposed garage garden courtesy Joralemon Realty. After stalling their landlord’s attempt to build a parking garage in their courtyard next to the BQE two years ago, tenants and other community activists are still fighting the proposal. Built in 1890, the Riverside Apartments at Columbia Place and Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights were regarded as a great advancement in tenement living. Located near the Columbia Place docks, the nine buildings were unique for their......
Continue Reading "Landmarks Commission to Consider Parking Garage at Historic Riverside Tenement in Brooklyn Heights"
