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Hope Community LDC wants to purchase 47 East Harlem buildings out of foreclosure. But a tenant organization has raised questions about the would-be buyer’s past record.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Aug 2010

Housing and Homelessness

Pols Warn Foreclosed Buildings' Mystery Buyer

Tenants and elected officials are suspicious of the unnamed buyer eyeing 10 distressed Bronx buildings, but the city’s housing chief wants to give the new owner a chance.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Jul 2010

ARTS and CULTURE

Behind The Scenes Of An Eviction

Most of the evictions that City Marshal Oren Varnai conducts aren’t dangerous; they’re simply “uncomfortable.”

ByChris Giblin 0Comments

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Jul 2010

Education Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Opponents Mobilize Against New Harlem Charter School

Opponents of the Harlem Children’s Zone’s plans to open a school in the St. Nicholas Houses are organizing a grassroots effort aimed to prevent it.

ByChris Giblin 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Government

Landlord Pinnacle Group Challenges Class Action

Two months after a federal judge granted class action status to a group of tenants suing the Pinnacle Group, the formal process of finding people who think they were wronged…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2010

News Uncategorized

Housing Costs Devour More Family Budgets

Despite neighborhoods littered with vacant homes and sale prices that dropped dramatically in the past three years, more Americans are spending more of their money on housing expenses than ever…

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Uncategorized

Tenant Lawsuit Against Mega-Landlord Gains Steam

When The Pinnacle Group purchased the building where Kim Powell and her family were living in 1997, she and her family hoped their 19 years of housing woes might finally…

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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May 2010

Uncategorized

Life in the Towers: 'I'm Tired Of Ducking Bullets'

Ebone Ryals, a resident at the Towers for many decades, helps Janey and Letitia plant. Photo by: Hannah Rappleye A day at River Park Towers reveals a lot about what low-income New…

ByHannah Rappleye 0Comments

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May 2010

ARTS and CULTURE

Pot Smoke, Dead Elevators & Killer Paint: Life in the Towers

On a warm Saturday morning a few weeks ago, a group of older tenants at the River Park Towers in Morris Heights, a neighborhood in the South Bronx, set up…

ByHannah Rappleye 1Comment

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May 2010

Housing and Homelessness