Friday, August 2, 2013

Ok, Queens. Can we top this one?


From CBS 2:

One look at the abandoned house in Riverdale and you know exactly why the neighbors are so upset. The shingles have fallen off. You can see holes in the roof. A tree is actually growing out of the house. And garbage and machinery is strewn all over the yard.

Public records show the house was purchased in 2006 for more than $3 million. The property is owned by a real estate company called 620 Blackstone, LLC, run by Josh Neustein.

Neustein owns several rental properties in the area and lives only a few miles away from this home, also in the fancy Riverdale section of the Bronx.

A woman inside the home told Leitner she was at the wrong address, but neighbors and public records confirmed the residence owned by Neustein.

He was named to the city’s worst landlord list in 2012 by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, with 753 open hazardous violations on five buildings.


What's with the zoning here?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We hear this time and time again.

The problem is that city council is loath to lower the boom on development even when it endangers people's lives and hurts property values.

Pols like Vallone, who encourages people to do anything they want to their property that is legally possible damn the neighborhood, kill communities and open them up for development.

STOP THE VALLONES!
GOD SAVE QUEENS!

Anonymous said...

Don't let this happen to your community. Vote GRAZIANO! He's the ONLY candidate who will stop the shady developers.