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February 12, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
From YourNabe.com
Vantage Properties, which owns more than 80 buildings in Queens, agreed to pay $1 million to compensate harassed tenants as part of a settlement that state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday.
The settlement comes after Cuomo said at the end of January that he planned to sue Vantage to stop it from forcing tenants [...]
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February 4, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
‘Absolutely elated’ by A.G. probe of landlord
BY Daniel Edward Rosen
DAILY NEWS
Thursday, February 4th 2010, 10:52 AM
THE STATE attorney general’s decision to go after one of Queens’ most controversial landlords won’t deter a group of tenants from moving ahead with its own lawsuit, the tenants’ attorney said yesterday.
Rob McCreanor, a lawyer for the Immigrant Tenant Advocacy [...]
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January 29, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
NY Times
State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that he intends to sue a major New York landlord that he says harassed hundreds of tenants in rent-regulated apartments in Queens and Manhattan in a systematic effort to force their departure to create vacancies for higher-paying tenants.
The landlord, Vantage Properties, routinely filed eviction notices and [...]
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November 29, 2009 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
NY TIMES REAL ESTATE
Accessorized With Stroller and Rake
JULIE SIMONSON, a research pharmacist whose flat accent reveals her Chicago-area roots, grew up in a forest. Her childhood home was surrounded as far as the eye could see by towering deciduous trees whose names and characteristics she knew so well that she could identify virtually every [...]
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November 27, 2009 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
Illegal Apartments are Potential Death Threats (Queens Courier)
From the barrio to the tree-lined streets of upscale neighborhoods all over Queens, thousands of people live in danger. They live in illegal apartments.
In the worst cases, unscrupulous building owners partition off houses into multiple apartments – sometimes as many as eight units in a two-story structure, even [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
Sunnyside housing prices have dropped between 15% and 20%, while coop prices have remained fairly stable, according to Nilo De la Torre, the owner of Century 21 Sunny Garden Realty, located on 45th Street and Skillman Ave.
One family houses in Sunnyside Gardens, which sold for $625,000 18 months ago, are now selling for between $500,000 [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
Welcome Mart, a grocery store located on the corner of Queens Blvd and 44th Street, has shut down.
On Thursday, the doors were shuttered and the windows were covered in newspaper. Meanwhile, five employees were informed that they had lost their jobs.
The owner had been trying to sell the business for more than a year. Six months ago it was on [...]
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