Kushner Companies Accused of Driving Out Tenants in Brooklyn Building.

[Cattledog]

By Charles V. Bagli
Aug. 17, 2018


When the Kushner Companies bought the building at 184 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn in 2015, there were 316 rent-stabilized tenants, seemingly protected from eviction and large rent increases.

By June of this year, there were 71 left, according to documents filed with the state attorney general.

There is a natural attrition at any rental complex, but rent-regulated units are usually so prized that the turnover is about 3 or 4 percent a year, according to Richard LeFrak, a third-generation landlord. That percentage might be slightly higher where the tenants are largely young people.

But the exodus of 245 rent-regulated tenants in a building in less than three years allowed the Kushners to promote those apartments as condominiums and to sell, so far, roughly 130 units for tens of millions of dollars.

Last month, a group of 20 current and former tenants at the building filed a $10 million lawsuit, claiming that their apartments were made nearly uninhabitable during two years of renovations, when an army of workers trooped through the seven-story building on the Brooklyn waterfront. The tenants say the sound of drilling reverberated through the hallways. A fine layer of dust covered their furniture and clothing at the end of each day.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. That filthy scumbag learned that from the rump family.

The stories New Yorkers could tell you about rump, mafia, beatings, etc. yikes

EXACT same MO rump did in NY harming thousands of senior citizens

[janx]

2. I was just talking to a friend who lived in NYC in the mid to late 80s.

She told me exactly the same thing! We talked about it yesterday afternoon. She was teaching at Columbia at the time and some of her students actually researched it and wrote about it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Going way back he used mobsters to threaten and beat up anyone who refused to move out

usually old people.

We could document this, show video of it and his base would not care. At all.

America is broken and broken BADLY.

[Frustratedlady]

4. That would have been before Cohen came onboard?

I'm sure he had his own scare tactics and was probably encouraged to threaten old people as the mob did before him.

How brave to beat up old people. Shame on everyone involved.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. The people who experienced it say it was in the 70's and 80's.

My understanding is it went like this

daddy gave him $10 million or what would be almost $100 million now

and a list of names and phone numbers of city officials and you know who's and that the thing to do is buy apartment buildings and turn them into condos...

he then hired people who knew how to do all that since he had no clue then or now...he actually really does know nothing other than to follow those basic instructions.

Often tenants would be old people on social security, who couldnt leave so they would be threatened or beaten then they would leave.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Not much different from the MS13 he's so terrified of.

Judgment Day should be interesting.

[janx]

7. That makes sense.

He has been buying people his whole adult life.

But if he was "mobbed up" way back then, I can't help but think about Giuliani's famous reputation for fighting the mob. These thoughts are freaky.