Sunday, June 21, 2015

People fed up with junk-filled property


From Cleanup Jamaica Queens:

In a relatively nice area off of Merrick Blvd (as can be seem by the above photo), sits some nice houses with yards, most of which are well taken care of, but directly near these homes not only sits the garbage strewn abandoned playground/vacant lot which I posted earlier, but another major eyesore, a vacant house at 108-50 171st Place owned by Bangladeshi slumlord Mahbubur Rahman (why am I not surprised). I point out this individual's ethnicity because more and more Bangladeshi slumlords have been causing many issues in Jamaica like this, while living in another community and allowing their property to fall apart and not give a shit who they rent to. Can you imaging them doing this in Forest Hills but yet they pull this shit in a predominately black community and they get away with this and our black leaders do shit.
Residents told me that the house has been vacant for about two months, but before that, was filled will possible squatters, while this slumlord did nothing, allowing the house to deteriorate. Over the years residents filed complaints about abandoned cars in the yard, illegal conversions, many families living in a house not set up for that. The owner was fined $2500 by DOB for illegal use of a residence with the cars in 2008. To this day that fined has not been paid. Before that the previous owner had complaints filed against him, but DOB did nothing in that matter.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Some people are slobs...

Joe Moretti said...

This situation is more of people not living in that area, dumping garbage, some of it from handyman. Residents have seen trucks and vans come by and dump. Reports to the city go unabated though. This is not the case of just dumping a bag of garbage here.

Anonymous said...

Like my neighbor who, near my windows, piles all the smelly recyclable cans and bottles he steals from the trash.

Anonymous said...

This will never change because most those people like it that way, its "normal" to them. Many don't want property values to go up because they will then be pushed out like those people in Bushwick. Now in 2015 a run down 1920s 6 family near the JMZ ($36,000 in 1977)is now worth 3 million dollars and brings in $12,000 a month rent.