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Isaac Gomez (front row, second from left.) (Courtesy SEIU)Local workers organized protested outside 490 Myrtle Avenue on May 5 after the firing of a doorman who tried to unionize his building. Isaac Gomez claims that he was fired from his job as a doorman at 490 Myrtle Avenue, a
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December 31 marks the next deadline for real estate developers to file plans in time to qualify for a 421a tax abatement, which means that there will likely be a flurry of activity to get plans submitted. If it’s anything like what happened this May and June, when the
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Neighbors traveled to Albany last week to advocate for stronger rent regulations. Photo via the Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition/photos/a.851935758213567.1073741872.268117579928724/851938288213314/?type=3&theater] The state’s laws regulating rent increases and eviction policies for the more than two million New
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Facing the 23-story development that looms over the row of delis, pharmacies, and other mom-and-pop shops that line Flatbush Avenue, more than 100 people gathered at 626 Flatbush Avenue Thursday morning to protest the 421-a [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/tax-incentives-421a.page] tax exemption program that neighbors said
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