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Deed Theft Indictment Targets City Council Member’s Family
An organized ring of lawyers, real estate brokers and members of Councilmember Darlene Mealy’s family crafted an elaborate deed theft scheme, posing as heirs of the deceased owner of a Harlem brownstone to obtain more than $1.6 million in fraudulent bank loans, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged Thursday. Bragg announced charges against 18 people […]
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Deed Theft Indictment Targets City Council Member’s Family
An organized ring of lawyers, real estate brokers and members of Councilmember Darlene Mealy’s family crafted an elaborate deed theft scheme, posing as heirs of the deceased owner of a Harlem brownstone to obtain more than $1.6 million in fraudulent bank loans, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged Thursday. Bragg announced charges against 18 people […]
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‘They Put Me In a Cell’: Old-Timers Fight Eviction From the New Times Square
By the time the police took him away, Garratt Kennedy had already been at war for months with his landlord, a new owner who was trying to turn the gritty Hell’s Kitchen SRO Kennedy called home into a slick Times Square hotel. Kennedy is 59 and had lived in his cramped, 100-square-foot, rent-stabilized SRO room […]
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‘They Put Me In a Cell’: Old-Timers Fight Eviction From the New Times Square
By the time the police took him away, Garratt Kennedy had already been at war for months with his landlord, a new owner who was trying to turn the gritty Hell’s Kitchen SRO Kennedy called home into a slick Times Square hotel. Kennedy is 59 and had lived in his cramped, 100-square-foot, rent-stabilized SRO room […]
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McGuinness Makeover Begins in Greenpoint After Years of Street-Redesign Scandal
The city is moving full speed ahead on the makeover of a deadly Greenpoint street after Manhattan prosecutors charged last year that the project was slowed by political power players during the mayoral administration of Eric Adams. Department of Transportation and City Hall officials broke ground Wednesday on work to complete the long-delayed redesign of […]
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