Real Estate Born in Downtown Brooklyn 140 years ago, the missed Gage & Tollner Restaurant had called 372-374 Fulton Street Italianate-style brownstone home since 1892. The building was designated a NYC Landmark in 1974 and 8 years later placed on the National Register for Historic Preservation. It closed in 1995 due to slow traffic. […]Read More
Bill Provides Protections for Owners of Homes in Default or in Foreclosure Senator (Velmanette) Montgomery’s “Deed Theft Bill” (S1688/A5615 – Weinstein) passed the Senate and now awaits the governor’s signature. This legislation would strengthen and expand upon the Home Equity Theft Act of 2006 (“HETPA”) by providing greater protections for owners of homes that are […]Read More
Third-Party Transfer & the Loss of Intergenerational Wealth The attack on Black and Brown people in the Americas has been unremitting since Europeans first set foot on the land. Whether it’s the border wall, the criminal justice system or a malevolency in bureaucratic DNA, the end result is particularly harmful to African-Americans. This time, once […]Read More
As Mayor Bill de Blasio doubles-down in his defense of HPD’s (Housing, Preservation and Development’s) Third Party Transfer (TPT) program, Rev. W. Taharka Robinson will not relinquish ground in the fight against it. The mayor’s stance rated a higher level of attention recently as the City added co-op apartments to TPT’s aggressive oversight responsibilities (some […]Read More
By Stephen Witt September 28, 2018 Editor’s Note: The following is the fifth of a KCP investigative series by reporters Kelly Mena and Stephen Witt on how New York City is taking paid-off properties from longtime small property owners, including Black and Brown seniors, and giving them to connected non-profit and for-profit developers as gentrification continues […]Read More
By Stephen Witt & Kelly Mena Mr. McConnell Dorce, a house-owner in East New York received a foclosure notice on his paid-off property from the City’s Department of Housing and Preservation Development under a non-profit third-party program called Neighborhood Restore. (Photo by Tsubasa Berg) In a growing and shocking scandal, Kings County Politics has learned […]Read More
Ms. Marlene Saunders, a long time resident and homeowner of 1217 Dean Street. The city today abruptly reversed a decision to take a senior citizen’s brownstone house on a gentrified Crown Heights block after pressure from City Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant, Northern Crown Heights) and Kings County Politics. While the incident, in which the retired nurse, […]Read More
The pace at which new construction and housing rehabilitation is occurring in Brooklyn is literally unsettling for many people. Three- and four-story walk-ups are being reconstructed to stand six-stories and taller. Soon, housing costs will be out of reach for households with incomes below $75,000. It’s essential that Brooklynites get side hustles or upgrade job […]Read More
