A Bronx woman is due to collect more than $33,000 from her landlord, after she was overcharged on her rent for nearly three years.
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Landlord ordered to pay tenant $33,000
Posted on 02 November 2011.
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Fire in Soundview building leaves tenants with holes in the walls
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Three workers believed to be hired by the Soundview building’s new owner, Gazivoda Realty Inc, may be responsible for the fire.
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Dr. Bola has more to do
Posted on 13 October 2011.
The focused 50-year-old has quickly climbed the leadership ranks in Community District 5 and may go higher yet.
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Sally Dunford: a passionate advocate for Norwood
Posted on 08 October 2011.
In a tiny, first-floor office at the northern tip of the Bronx, Sally Dunford sat among two cluttered desks squeezed in by several more filing cabinets, fielding phone calls that came in every few minutes or so.“Can I talk to you in five?” she said to one caller. “I’m not sure if you’re in my […]
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The forgotten building
Posted on 13 December 2010.
Residents of the Soundview houses where Judge Sotomayor grew up are told to wait until 2012 for basic repairs
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Trying to stop the killing
Posted on 31 October 2010.
Danny Barber organizes an anti-violence youth rally in response to a rash of shootings.
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Rezoning confusion for Norwood’s business owners
Posted on 20 October 2010.
Business owners on Webster Avenue contemplate their fate if new zoning policy takes hold.
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Moshe Piller: How a New York Landlord Works the System
Posted on 18 May 2010.
After 18 months of rehabilitation for a broken hip, all that Eta Eckstein wanted was to go back home to her Brooklyn apartment. The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor had lived at 8750 Bay Parkway for 40 years, but when her son visited her apartment while she was still at the Shore View Rehabilitation Center, he found a red eviction notice on the door.
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