Adi Talwar
Businesses and store space for lease on East Gun Hill road between Hull Avenue and Decatur Avenue in the Bronx. In 2014 the Bronx led the city with a 30 percent increase in court-ordered commercial evictions.
The Small Business Jobs Survival Act, which would establish a right to commercial lease renewal, has been kicking around City Council for three decades. Then as now, worries about economic impact and Constitutionality have bogged the bill down.
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