A note to slumlords: Don't try to evict old people.
When the news broke recently that David Bistricer, a managing member of Berkshire Capital, was collecting millions in rent from the city -- some of it because he owns none other than the Kings County Housing Court -- it made barely a ripple. But try Read More
From Crain's: "The sale of Starrett City has been delayed because the owner of the sprawling Brooklyn complex and federal housing officials have been unable to agree on the fair market value of future rents. Starrett City Associates had initially expected to select a winning bid by early September, but the owner feels rents Read More
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A spokeswoman for Clipper Equity, the would-be buyer of Starrett City that saw the state reject its takeover plan last week, objected to the notion that the deal is dead. "The plan is and had been evolving," Clipper spokeswoman Lisa Linden told The Real Estate on Monday afternoon. "We are involved in a process. Read More
Friday morning's New York Times seemed to suggest that David Bistricer's (and Bruce Teitelbaum's) second bid for Starrett City might have a chance. Indeed, it was all about how Mr. Bistricer was enlisting the help of ministers to take his case to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which holds the Read More
Jay Kennedy Remembered To the Editor: I really enjoyed and appreciated David Foxley’s article on my late boss, King Features editor in chief Jay Kennedy [“Jay Kennedy, Editor of Cartoonists, Arts and Newspaper Archivist, 50,” March 26]. It was truly insightful reading about his hobbies, friendships and personal background. He will be sorely missed in Read More
Jay Kennedy Remembered To the Editor: I really enjoyed and appreciated David Foxley’s article on my late boss, King Features editor in chief Jay Kennedy [“Jay Kennedy, Editor of Cartoonists, Arts and Newspaper Archivist, 50,” March 26]. It was truly insightful reading about his hobbies, friendships and personal background. He will be sorely missed in Read More
Congressman Towns Responds To the Editor: I am writing this letter as a response to the story “Bruce T. and Chuck S. Rumble in Starrett City,” written by Matthew Schuerman [March 19]. I would like to make it emphatically clear that I am totally against any deal with Clipper Equity to purchase the Starrett City Read More
Andrew Cuomo isn’t doing interviews. (Really.) Unlike the abrasive candidate who barnstormed the state hoping to be Governor in 2002, or the one four years later who confessed to being more comfortable speaking to hundreds of people from a stage than to a handful in a living room, Mr. Cuomo is avoiding the spotlight. Or Read More
Congressman Towns Responds To the Editor: I am writing this letter as a response to the story “Bruce T. and Chuck S. Rumble in Starrett City,” written by Matthew Schuerman [March 19]. I would like to make it emphatically clear that I am totally against any deal with Clipper Equity to purchase the Starrett City Read More
Bruce Teitelbaum, the controversial former aide to Rudy Giuliani, has been scurrying behind the scenes to shore up David Bistricer’s troubled bid for Starrett City in the past several weeks. And for good reason: Mr. Teitelbaum has money riding on it. Mr. Teitelbaum, who once ruled City Hall as Mr. Giuliani’s fixer (or, if you Read More
A tipster says Mayor Bloomberg will celebrate the funding of 55,000 units of affordable housing, bringing him more than one-third of the way to his 165,000-unit goal, with six years to go. Where will he proverbially uncork the Champagne? Where else? East New York, probably not too far from Starrett City, where another Read More
