179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association advocates for the legal rights of tenants living in the Marx Brothers Childhood Home in NYC & to end Landlord RSL fraud
@LaRepublica17
@mollycrabapple
Why are you buying into their narrative that these apartments need to be renovated?
@GovKathyHochul
needs to order the immediate inspections of the warehoused apartments w/tenant reps & press on walk thru
Most of lower Manhattan is either at or BELOW sea level. WHY would
#NYC
even consider imposing MORE stress on our tortured ecosystem & crumbling infrastructure? Turn Hudson Yards & empty office space into affordable housing & leave SOHO/NOHO & Elizabeth St Garden alone!
#climate
1/2 In the midst of an affordable housing crisis, it is unconscionable that the State of NY has not yet ordered the IMMEDIATE release of the more than 20,000 Rent Stabilized apartments CHIP has admitted are being unlawfully kept off the market by ruthless
#Landlords
who rob NY State of rent stabilized apartments through fraud (e.g. false rent reg, fraudulent IAIs, etc.) should be prosecuted to the fullest, along w/the expediters, public officials & “lawyers” who enable their unlawful schemes.
@NewYorkStateAG
@ManhattanDA
@nycpa
1/3
#Landlords
are REQUIRED, as a matter of law, to keep ALL their apartments Code-Compliant. So what CHIP is admitting here is not only that landlords are holding hostage, at least, 200,000 Rent Stabilized apartments, but they are admitting that some of
As our Super lives a different Borough, at least 41 minutes away (we Google mapped it), & our so-called Building “Manager” has been working remotely from FL, there has been NO response to the fact we have had NO HEAT for over 7 hours & the pipes are still ice🧊 cold 🥶.
@NYCMayor
1/3 It is absolutely outrageous that in the midst of a Housing Crisis,
#NY
#Landlords
have admitted that they are hoarding, at least, 200,000 Rent Stabilized apartments; holding them off-market! RSL apartments are, by definition, regulated. These unscrupulous law breakers should
@ceaweaver
@tthoma24
No one forced these landlords to enter a highly regulated NY industry. They want a bargain RSL building so they can fraudulently deregulate & flip it at market rate. 🎻
We have had NO HEAT all weekend long & it’s been Cold 🥶, overnight especially. Of course, if we had a real Super (as opposed to some guy who lives at least 45 minutes away by the fastest subway), our building might actually be maintained.
@JulieMenin
@NYCMOPT
@NYCHousing
#NYC311
The heat is finally back on @ 179E93 (for now at least) 🙏🙏🏽🙏🏻 Thanks to everyone who tweeted about our building’s chronic heat failure! Hopefully,
@NYCHousing
&
@NYC_Buildings
will eventually send inspector to examine the boiler & radiators so we can have reliable heat
@NYCMayor
As our Super lives a different Borough, at least 41 minutes away (we Google mapped it), & our so-called Building “Manager” has been working remotely from FL, there has been NO response to the fact we have had NO HEAT for over 7 hours & the pipes are still ice🧊 cold 🥶.
@NYCMayor
Not. At. All. 🌊 🌧 ⛈ Logic & common sense would have
@NYCPlanning
suspend all development plans until new flood maps are drawn and adequate storm drain systems are installed. The City is recklessly barreling ahead due to its addiction to construction/real estate lobbying💰
*
@NYC_Buildings
needs to take WAY MORE SERIOUSLY deteriorating facade conditions, spalling bricks & loose or cracked mortar; An unenforced
#NYC
Building Code has deadly consequences. Falling rocks, deteriorating facade lead to Brooklyn woman's death.
NY AG has sued
#Landlord
lawyers Balsamo, Rosenblatt & Hall for engaging in deceptive rent collection practices and initiating frivolous lawsuits against
#NY
#Tenants
.
@NewYorkStateAG
also seeks to suspend all unjustified cases against tenants & return $.
When a woman speaks truth to power, she does not need to kneel & kiss the Mayor’s ring. And when that woman has devoted her time to helping & advocating for
#Housing
&
#Tenants
rights for 40+ yrs, it is the Mayor who owes HER the respect of listening. If he can’t take the heat…
This woman is Jeanie Dubnau, the Co-Founder of the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association (RENA), a tenants & housing rights advocacy organization in Upper Manhattan. She has +40 years advocating for low income NYers of all races. Jeanie is not a racist & this was wrong.
1/4 In the literal wake of devastating floods-caused by the wholesale destruction of wetlands & porous ground w/o installation of adequate storm drain systems to accommodate the resulting FLOOD run-off-ALL
#NYC
development &
#Zoning
plans/projects/decisions MUST be put ON HOLD in
As per
@THECITYNY
’s great reporting on continued
#Landlord
theft of Rent Stabilized aparts thru fraudulent schemes,
#tenants
in the Marx Brothers childhood home, wish to remind all to scrutinize the fraudulent leases& false rent registrations proffered by unscrupulous slumlords🎄
Yet,
@HeyNowJO
is busy telling reporters the partial Bldg collapse isn’t on
@NYC_Buildings
AS IF the engineer’s facade report & work plan renderings weren’t submitted to & filed w/
#NYC
#DOB
WHICH THEY WERE. Nothing to see here. Ignore all the rubble… 🦗
@katie_honan
@AliBaumanTV
@fuelgrannie
Recently found this in my room. DOB came to my building, saw the severe stress cracks on the facades, and just gave the LL a $1000 fine and to make an appearance in court. LL didn't do either, and the issue persisted.
Proposed NY bill that would pierce opaque system of LLCs-which serve as shell companies, shielding Russian Oligarchs from liabilities & prosecution-would also force transparency & accountability in secretive
#Slumlord
biz practices.
#PleaseVoteYES
@SenatorSerrano
@bradhoylman
FINALLY going after low hanging fruit, woefully overripe because it's been rotting in plain sight on the vine for years, distracts from fact
@AdolfoCarrion
&
@HeyNowJO
are complicit in
#NYC
#Landlord
crimes against Rent Stabilized
#Tenants
& have enabled reckless neglect for yrs
This should happen EVERY TIME a landlord false certifies a repair or neglects to make the needed repairs.
@AdolfoCarrion
you get no points for simply DOING THE JOB OF ENFORCING THE SAFTEY CODES AS THATS WHY WE PAY HPD ENFORCEMENT.
1/3 Remember how
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman refused to comply w/
@NYCHousing
Notice to Tenants that our building has been designated for
#HPD
’s Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP), which Notice requires the landlord post the name of the bank that holds the mortgage to our building?
2/4 order to allow time to fully examine the ACTUAL impacts of any such projects on
#NYC
’s severely overwhelmed (read: inadequate to handle catastrophic weather that is no longer infrequent) storm drain system. Our city should not contribute to the deaths of any more New Yorkers.
When
#Landlord
unlawfully takes rent Stabilized aparts off market-whether by failing to register & renting as deregulated or thru fictitious IAIs-he/she is inevitably committing
#BankFraud
as landlord uses inflated value of illegally deregulated building as collateral for loans
No one forced
#NY
#Landlords
to speculatively buy NYS REGULATED properties. If they don’t want to comply w/law,
#CHIP
& Co. should buy buildings at market rate. But they won’t because they are cheap & want a bargain price for building & then violate NY law
So is this our
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman attesting to
@NYC_Buildings
-on Gofman's Application to Legalize his illegal construction of "Sleeping Lofts" in Apts 4D, 3D, 2A & 1A-that there are no Rent Stab apts in our rent stab bldg that's occupied by Rent Stab tenants? Plz let us know
1/2 The
@NYC_Buildings
Violation for the "sleeping lofts" (Ref related
#DOB
Violation)
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman built W/O DOB Permits or prior permission from
@NYSHCR
@ 179E93 cites the UNPERMITTED CONSTRUCTION WORK in APT 4D, 3D, 2A & 1A BUT LEGALIZATION WORK PLAN FILED by GOFMAN
2/3 these RSL apartments were, in fact, previously rented to
#Tenants
despite not being up to NY Code; Historic Breaches of the Warranty of habitability &
@NYCHousing
Violations is NOT an argument for a so-called “reset” of the outlawed Vacancy bonus, but
For the love of God,
#NY
#Housing
advocates have been pleading w/you to Order
@NYSHCR
inspections to determine habitability of the >than 60,000 rent stabilized aparts being ILLEGALLY warehoused & deliberately kept off market by greedy landlords. This is extant affordable housing.
Our New York Housing Compact is a groundbreaking strategy to unlock our housing production to make our state more affordable and livable.
@NYSHCR
is working with local communities to ensure they have what they need to meet our goal of 800,000 new homes.
If your Electeds have not made housing & restoring to market the more than 60,000 rent Stabilized aparts being ILLEGALLY warehoused by
#NY
#landlords
, their TOP priority (as housing affects, crime, etc), then your Electeds are failing you & every other New Yorker. Vote them out!
When
@NYCHousing
abuses its discretion by actively endangering
#tenants
' lives, health & safety by refusing to issue Violations for hazardous conditions
#HPD
Inspectors discover & observe, HPD should be held criminally liable for enabling
#slumlords
to harass & abuse
#tenants
.
Our notoriously unscrupulous
#UES
Slumlord, Slavik Gofman, has illegally deregulated no less than 1/2 the apartments in our building, 179 East 93rd St & uses the fraudulently inflated value of our building as collateral for bank loans, refinancing, etc. Straight up
#BankFraud
.
What meatheads! Developer undermines nine landmarked buildings in Meatpacking District and city orders their demolition... BY THE VILLAGE SUN | In shocking news, the city has ordered the near-complete demolition of nine landmark buildings on the northeas
Rather than irreparable draconian measures that displace hardworking NYers crushed by inflation & skyrocketing property taxes,
#NYC
would better serve the PEOPLE were it to hold ACCOUNTABLE LAWLESS
#LANDLORDS
who rack up 💰 HAZARDOUS CONDITION VIOLATIONS
@NYC_Buildings
WRITES OFF
New York City officials are finalizing plans to replace a controversial debt collection system by the end of the current fiscal year as unpaid property taxes continue to rise, according to the city’s finance commissioner via
@Gothamist
's
@DavidFBrand
Our
#Slumlord
, Slavik Gofman, is literally
#NextLevel
; Because Gofman has failed to comply w/8/2/21
#Housing
Court Order to cure
>100 Open
#HPD
violations in our building, on Jan 31, 2023,
#NYC
designated our building as “severely distressed” & escalated HPD
#Enforcement
: AEP.
2C is a 1Bdrm Rent Control Apt, last Registered @ $285.68.
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman Illegally Converted 2C (building unpermitted partition to create 2nd Bdrm) to 2Bdrm & is brazenly renting out RENT REGULATED APT as deregulated 2Bdrm @ $2,700 per month.
#ProsecuteCorruptLandlords
1/2 The
#FIRE
EXIT DOOR @ our roof
@Bulkhead
has been subject of
@NYCHousing
Violations for more than 3 yrs & remains an Open Violation today, endangering the lives of
#tenants
& #
@FDNY
as the door is now lashed shut w/a
#BUNGEECORD
, a hazard that would be hard to see in smoke!
Accident Schmaccident
Welcome to Mayor Adams’
#CityOfYes
where the goal is to build, build, build!
CUT THRU “RED TAPE”!
Compromise Safety Standards, Site Inspections & Review!
Real Public & Environmental Safety REQUIRES review & investigation B4 Permits are Issued NOT AFTER!
And when we told
@NYCHousing
Inspector Rodriguez the discharge, seen in the pics, which chronically
#leaks
through the vent, is caused by Gofman’s ILLEGAL PLUMBING in 2A, for which
@NYC_Buildings
issued violation,
#HPD
Inspector said, “but that’s DOB, not us”
#DAVENPORT
#Surfside
This news might explain why
#HPD
settled >100 open violations-some of which
#Slumlord
Gofman ignored for years-for mere $6500; so hazardous conditions persist. Time to tighten
#ethics
rules so public can trust
#NYC
Officials are not cutting deals in exchange for golden parachutes
@katie_honan
@NYCMayor
This is not about time spent filing a form. It's about the mayor thinking he can build a moat around his palace of All the Kings Men & Women. NYC is an egalitarian DEMOCRACY where we ALL have free access to our PUBLIC SERVANTS, be they Commissioners or the not so Royal 👑 Mayor!
1/4 It used to be that going to the mat to protect & defend
#Tenants
Rights & NY’s
#Rent
Regulations was neither a “progressive” nor a “liberal” issue, but rather a bedrock
#NY
value. And after the NYS legislature enacted
#HSTPA
, tenants were promised even
Being in control for 80 years, the
#DHCR
has become a bureaucratic bully that is more interested in holding on to the vestiges of its own power, than correctly applying the law or protecting
#tenants
rights, all while bending over backwards to help
#slumlords
commit IAI
#Fraud
.
1/2 Rezoning is not a solution to the
#NYC
housing crisis. If NYC were serious about affordable housing, it would 1.) Demand that
@GovKathyHochul
order
#CHIP
to provide names & locations of the 10,000+ RSL apts
#Landlords
are illegally warehousing off market & put those apts up
I don't know Richards, but It's a mistake to believe that most electeds are good & altruistic people. When history has shown us that these offices have been & continue to be replete with reprobates. We think the bar for public office is high, when in reality the bar is in hell.
1/2 As documented by
@NYC_Buildings
Office of Buildings Marshall on Oct. 5, 2022, without
#DOB
Permits, Safety Inspections or prior permission from
@NYSHCR
, our
#Slumlord
, Slavik Gofman, illegally converted no less than two 1-Bedroom Rent Stabilized apts
A history of
#building
complaints; Spalling bricks; Deteriorating Facade; loose & broken mortar;
#IllegalConstructionWork
putting stress on structural integrity; Noncompliance followed by Epic enforcement fails; Bureaucratic CYA @ the expense of
#Tenants
’ safety.
#Davenport
#NYC
3/3 Roeder for doing exactly ZERO, despite the fact
#Slumlord
Gofman was MONTHS INTO CONTEMPT of 8/2/21
#Housing
Court Order to cure 105 Open Violations, several of which were in public areas (unfettered access) & some Violations YEARS old.
#PublicCorruption
#Surfside
#Davenport
We’ve seen
#PerpWalks
of
#DOB
Inspectors,
#HPD
Inspectors,
#Asbestos
Inspectors, et al. But the time has come to round up the real culprits; the ones handing out 💵 to water down violations or make them go away all together:
#Landlords
. Criminal landlords endanger
#tenants
’ lives
Meanwhile
#NYC
destroys parks, neighborhoods & historic districts under guise of creating “affordable” housing which will not provide affordable housing, when NYC has vast portfolio of affordable RSL apartments if they simply applied the law & enforcement!
#HSTPA
@GovKathyHochul
1/4 Someone(s)
@NYC_Buildings
has, for years, protected our corrupt
#UES
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman. Despite myriad Violations, Commissioners’ Orders,
#NYC
Liens, etc. against Gofman for the countless dangerous conditions in our building 179E93 (some of which remained unresolved for
List of the 38 NYS Senators who've said NO to the FAILED policies of yesteryear. Please scroll through list to see if YOUR NYS Senator is protecting
#TenantProtections
& if not, plz TWEET them your opinion STAT B4 they jeopardize
#Tenants
health & safety!
1/3 Remember how our building was put into the HPD Alternative Enforcement Program “AEP” on January 31, 2023 because has failed to comply w/8/2/21 Housing Court Order directing Gofman to make HPD-Ordered repairs? Well, now he is even refusing to comply with HPD AED’s NOTICE TO
Happy birthday to our
#NYC
Council Member,
@JulieMenin
, who prevailed upon
@NYCHousing
to get the heat turned on in our cold
#UES
Rent Stabilized building, the historic childhood home of the beloved comic geniuses known across the globe as The Marx Brothers!!! 🎉🎂🎈
#Celebrate
1/2 So
#NYC
#DOB
finally inspects the illegal construction work our
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman has done in our building & says, this is all illegal; all kinds of violations. That’s what they said, until…🦗. So WHO exactly does Gofman own? Or is it just a city& state bias against
Due, in part, to the number of judges who refuse to respect
#RTC
& because of systemic Judicial bias against tenants,
#NYC
Courts have become enablers of
#Slumlords
' aggressive- & all too often unlawful & sometimes criminal-tactics to harass NYC
#tenants
.
1/2 New Yorkers are so lucky that there are more than 60,000 NY State-regulated Rent Stabilized apartments that may be immediately habitable (but kept off market as leverage for repealing
#HSTPA
’s essential $15K cap on RSL Renos). Some states don’t have that kind of housing stock
With a
#NYC
Building Manager working remotely from Florida & a “Super” who lives more than 40 minutes a way in a different borough, what could possibly go wrong? Like…everything. For starters: No hot water @ 179E93 again!
@NYCMOPT
@NYCMayor
@NYCHousing
@nycpa
@NewYorkStateAG
The City @ State of
#NY
should be WAY past the time of allowing lying, fraudster
#Landlords
to “self-certify” ANYTHING. But neither the
@NYCCouncil
or the
@NYSenate
have the 🏀 ⚽️ 🏈 to change that because the landlord &
#RealEstate
lobbies fund more than 75% of their campaigns.
@HeyNowJO
@NYCSanitation
DOB removes violations based on the landlords word.. How many times is DOB going to write and remove the violations on our doors which are STILL not code compliant? HOW MANY TIMES JIMMY? DOB removed a violation for my door based on an order to correct for another building.. WTF?
Are
#landlords
allowed to remove radiators from common areas? Cuz that’s what
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman did & ever since he removed the radiator from our hallway-making the hallway as cold as 🧊-our apartments have never been as warm as they used to be 🥶
@NYCHousing
@NYC_Buildings
So what Hizzoner meant by “City of Yes” is Yes to everything
#landlords
,
#RealEstateMoguls
&
#Developers
want (w/no questions asked & no requirement to comply w/Bldng Code, Housing Code or Environmental Regs) & NO to
#NYC
#tenants
(ref. 2022 RGB Rent Hike)
3/4 endangering the health & safety of
#tenants
& the public. Protecting a corrupt
#landlord
engaged in an ongoing fraudulent scheme to unlawfully deregulate Rent Stabilized apartments in the midst of a housing crisis is not only a crime, but a perverse breach of the public trust
The
#Landlord
Lobby Group
#CHIP
has openly admitted landlords are deliberately withholding more than 20,000
#Rent
Stabilized apartments off the market in hopes of
#HSTPA
being repealed.
@GovKathyHochul
has the power to& should order the immediate release of these hostage RSL Apts
13,000 tenants are showing up to housing court without legal representation. This undermines the crux of our Right to Counsel law.
Let’s invest in housing attorneys, slow down the caseload before housing court, and keep families in their homes!
1/3 Our
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman has been the subject of no less than 3
#NYC
Investigations just w/in the last 2 yrs; 2 of which have already yielded NYC litigation against Gofman for his fraudulent & deceitful Biz practices; illegal unpermitted construction work done w/unlicensed
1/3 So
@NYC_Buildings
continues its efforts to NOT issue violations against
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman for demonstrably violative conditions. The list is long. So TA’ll start with this ILLEGAL CONVERSION OF PUBLIC AREAS violation that was brought to the TA’s attention by
@NYCHousing
Right to counsel is critical. Without counsel,
#tenants
get bull dozed by unscrupulous landlord & their unscrupulous lawyers & treated like crap by most judges, especially in the NYS Supreme Court where Judges feel above it all & rather not deal with L&T issues to begin with.
Did y’all think
#DOB
was gonna ask Qs & finally help facilitate Inspection of Spalling bricks, deteriorating mortar, etc. @ 179 Facade @ 4th Exposure? Nah,
@NYC_Buildings
@HeyNowJO
couldn’t be bothered to p/up 📞 & call the Marshal who referred it to DOB Facade Unit
#Davenport
So disheartening
@nytimes
is so addicted to its real estate revenue “Ad buys,” that the so-called 📰“of record” has ignored the biggest
#NY
#Housing
Story out of fear of losing Ad💰& so has failed to do this sort of in-depth Pulitzer Prize worthy reporting
Our Anti-Tenant, Anti-Rent Stabilization, Anti-Enforcement of Housing, Building & Environmental Regulations a.k.a. “City of Yes” “Mayor” is exposed in the NY Times:
Just the other side of the glass bowl light fixture that’s filled with the raw sewage that gushed from our building’s ceiling last night (for about the gazillionth time) you can see where the ceiling has collapsed over and over again from this same chronic defect
@nyc311
@NYCMOPT
So our notorious
#slumlord
Slavik Gofman has unlawfully & belligerently annexed from the NY Rent Regulations, no less than 7 rent stabilized apartments in our building &
@NYSHCR
has facilitated this RSL theft by willfully turning a blind eye to his brazen fraudulent scheme.
#UES
👇👇🏽👇🏻Myriad empty buildings beg to be repurposed. Ripping out a green space gem is bizarrely misguided & frankly quite mean spirited as
@NYCHousing
knows how beloved a space it is. Let’s reclaim & convert extant buildings; let neighborhoods inform plans, not the other way around
Destroying green space & a beloved community garden is not how you build affordable or quality neighborhoods. We can and should have both. The city should make the Elizabeth Street Garden a public park and find a new space for the Haven Green development.
So
@NYCHousing
has inspected all 60,000+ VACANT RENT STABILIZED APTS? No. It has not. Instead,
#HPD
just serves up another word salad. Always with the word salads, rather than doing the hard work to inspect, reclaim & bring to market >SIXTY THOUSAND EMPTY RENT STABILIZED NY APTS.
@NYCCouncil
@CenterOnHOME
When we drill down to rent stabilized units that had been vacant, off market for 12+ months, were in need of repairs, and had low legal rent (<$1,000), there were just 2,477 units.
That’s less than ¼ of 1% all rent stabilized units in NYC.
For 3 yrs
#Slumlord
Slavik Gofman has failed to cure dangerously violative
#Fire
Exit door to our roof (@ bulkhead) for which
@NYCHousing
has issued multiple violations. Last time violation was issued, Gofman’s “remedy” was to lash shut the door w/a
#BungeeCord
Cc:
@FDNY
@NYCMOPT
#DOB
claims it can’t randomly inspect bldgs. Tragically, we all know
@NYC_Buildings
doesn’t even inspect bldgs with OUTSTANDING FACADE VIOLATIONS WHEN SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED This is about more than the # of City Inspectors.
@NYCComptroller
@ManhattanDA
“For years we reported, we made so many reports … because the walls inside, I wish I could show you pictures, were just crumbling,” said one resident of the Bronx building that partially collapsed yesterday.