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AG awards $26M to NY land banks
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AG awards $26M to NY land banks

REW
by REW7058
Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced $25.9 million in new funding for all New York State land banks that work to protect homeowners and neighborhoods by acquiring blighted homes and transforming them into community assets. This latest round of funding will be administered by Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. Since 2013,...
Cushman & Wakefield hit with $30M race and gender discrimination suit
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Cushman & Wakefield hit with $30M race and gender discrimination suit

REW
by REW6239
A $30 million race and gender discrimination lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against multi-billion dollar commercial real estate behemoth Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. The complaint was filed on behalf of Cushman & Wakefield’s former president of Valuation & Advisory for the Americas...
Owner wins billboard battle near Jacob Javits
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Owner wins billboard battle near Jacob Javits

REW
by REW4806
A former tenant claiming the rights to use a billboard by the Jacob Javits Center has lost their $5 million claim. Atlantic Outdoor Advertising, the tenant who filed suit, claimed there was an oral agreement that they were allowed to continue using the billboard at 456 11th Ave that was...
Kushner Companies faces $210,000 in fines for withholding rent-regulated info
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Kushner Companies faces $210,000 in fines for withholding rent-regulated info

REW
by REW2260
Kushner Companies faces up to $210,000 in fines for filing false documents with the New York City Department of Buildings about rent-regulated tenants. On Monday, the DOB issued 42 violations to the landlord pertaining to 17 properties in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Kushner faces similar allegations in a civil lawsuit that...
Court shift gives landlords leg up in deregulation rent disputes
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Court shift gives landlords leg up in deregulation rent disputes

REW
by REW3988
As rent deregulation disputes continue to pile up in state court, many of these cases are being bounced from Supreme Court to the state’s housing agency. Since late last year, Supreme Court judges have referred at least a dozen rent overcharge cases to the state’s Division of Housing and Community...
AG creates $8 million restitution fund for former Croman tenants
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AG creates $8 million restitution fund for former Croman tenants

Jackson Chen
by Jackson Chen471
Former tenants of jailed slumlord Steven Croman could be in for a share of an $8 million restitution fund just announced by New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood. In one of the harshest penalties ever dished out to a New York landlord, Cronan was sent to jail for a...