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Worst buildings in NYC 2016. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Yesterday Public Advocate Letitia James [http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/] released the latest interactive map of the 100 worst landlords in New York City and 20 worst buildings, based on data from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the
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Worst buildings in NYC 2016. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Yesterday Public Advocate Letitia James [http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/] released the latest interactive map of the 100 worst landlords in New York City and 20 worst buildings, based on data from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Community support is pouring in via a fundraiser [https://www.gofundme.com/anthonynazaire] to help cover funeral costs for Anthony Nazaire, a 19-year-old Flatbush resident who was stabbed to death on the Cornell University campus last week [/blog/crime/community-mourns-flatbush-teen-stabbed-death-cornell-university/]. Nazaire’s mother, Katia Toussaint,
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Battle Hill at Green-Wood cemetery. (Photo courtesy kaddii1992 / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIGaMciDBUv/?tagged=battleofbrooklyn])The weekend is finally here, and we’d like to help you have a great one blocks from your home. Whether you’re looking to picnic with neighbors, catch some Brooklyn history, or
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://flatbushtenantcoalition.wordpress.com], a group of more than 55 active tenant associations, hosted its third annual open-forum for political candidates and community members to discuss the neighborhood’s critical challenges: rapid gentrification, escalating rents, predatory equity corporations, and criminal justice
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://flatbushtenantcoalition.wordpress.com], a group of more than 55 active tenant associations, hosted its third annual open-forum for political candidates and community members to discuss the neighborhood’s critical challenges: rapid gentrification, escalating rents, predatory equity corporations, and criminal justice
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(Courtesy of Flatbush Tenant Coalition)The Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition] will host a candidates’ forum to address the issues that are most important to community members voting in the September 13 primary (that’s us!) This is an opportunity to hear where the candidates from New
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(Photo by the Flatbush Tenant Coalition / Facebook)For the second consecutive year, the Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to approve a rent freeze on one-year leases for over one million tenants in rent stabilized housing. The news was bittersweet for local tenants rights advocates, who were fighting for more
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(Photo by the Flatbush Tenant Coalition / Facebook)For the second consecutive year, the Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to approve a rent freeze on one-year leases for over one million tenants in rent stabilized housing. The news was bittersweet for local tenants rights advocates, who were fighting for more
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Volunteering with the Church Avenue BID’s 2015 Graffiti Clean-Up. The next Church Avenue clean-up day is Saturday, May 14th. (Photo: Church Avenue BID)Do you have some flexible time right now? Do you want to make our community a better place for all of us? Do you want to
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Collapsed ceiling at apartment 2D, 2010 Newkirk Avenue. (Photo: Altagrace Aime)A Ditmas Park building, whose owner has been on Public Advocate Letitia James’ “Worst Landlord” list [http://gothamist.com/2015/11/25/worst_landlords_nyc_2015.php], was the scene of another emergency last night as FDNY emergency crews
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Collapsed ceiling at apartment 2D, 2010 Newkirk Avenue. (Photo: Altagrace Aime)A Ditmas Park building, whose owner has been on Public Advocate Letitia James’ “Worst Landlord” list [http://gothamist.com/2015/11/25/worst_landlords_nyc_2015.php], was the scene of another emergency last night as FDNY emergency crews