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equalityforflatbush · 3 years
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5/15 Rally with the #693MadisonTenants, @EqualFlatbush & @TakerootNYC at 1pm Please Wear Masks! https://fb.me/e/1qGaTKYmd Please Sign the petition to demand #IsaacHirsch & #JIHBuilders Stop the Evictions and Harassment of Tenants of 693 Madison Street https://thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/105/427/784. #BedStuy, #Brooklyn #MYNYCLandlord #NoEvictionZone #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack #JIHBuilders #693MadisonStreet #TenantsFightBack BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: is a Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification / anti-displacement project of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org To get involved in this campaign and our other anti-displacement work contact : [email protected] or call /text (646)820-6039 (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3ETvVjXE2/?igshid=19z18if4f6f0m
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TAKE ACTION: Tell NYC Parks Department and NYPD That We Will Not Be Silenced!
Parks Department and NYPD Attempt to Deny Permits for 1st-ever March against Gentrification, Racism, & Police Violence in Flatbush and East Flatbush
Equality for Flatbush (E4F) Launches Social Media and Call-in Campaign for 12 noon Thursday, August 11th to Demand that the Parks Department and the NYPD Issue Permits
Join the march: Saturday, August 13th 2016; Gather 12 noon at 441 Flatbush Ave, (The plaza near the intersection of Empire Blvd & Flatbush Ave); March at 1:30 pm
On August 8th, an email was sent to Equality for Flatbush (E4F) by the New York City Parks Department | Prospect Park Alliance stating that they could not accommodate the August 13th permit request for the plaza at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard.
Since June, E4F has been organizing for the 1st-ever March and Rally against Gentrification, Racism, & Police Violence in Flatbush and East Flatbush. There are now over 50 endorsers.
E4F applied for the park permit on July 13th which is in compliance with the required 21-day notice if you expect 25 people or more for an event on park property. Equality for Flatbush also applied within 30 days for a sound permit with 78th PCT. The Park Department stated in writing that they would grant permit if E4F picked another park or chose another day. Equality for Flatbush has yet to receive a response from NYPD.
“This is an outrage. In the midst of a devastating housing crisis where rents in the borough of Brooklyn are surpassing some Manhattan neighborhoods, this is a slap in the face to the Flatbush and East Flatbush neighborhoods that are being destroyed by the callousness of our public servants who are in bed with the real estate developers.”, Mia Anderson, an activist with Equality for Flatbush. “We will not be silenced! We are asking all progressive elected officials and community residents to immediately call or tweet the Parks Department and NYPD demanding they issue each of our permits respectively.”
Equality for Flatbush is launching a 12 noon call-in and social media action on August 11th to demand permits and in support of March against Gentrification, Racism, & Police Violence in Flatbush and East Flatbush. People are asked to call the Special Coordinator at Prospect Park Alliance at (718) 965-6979 and demand a permit be issued for August 13th. The following tweet can be used on social media: Tell @prospect_park & @NYPD78pct We Will Not Be Silenced! ‪#‎issuethepermitsnow‬ ‪#‎Aug13‬‪ #‎ThisIsFlatbush‬ ‪#‎BrooklynIsNotForSale‬ ‪#‎NoEvictionZone‬
Over 50 small businesses, community organizations, houses of worships and tenant associations, have endorsed the August 13th march and rally. Equality for Flatbush plans to file a legal in-junction if the permits are denied and will hold the August 13th rally as planned at 12pm noon regardless of the park permit. The group plans to march at 1:30pm through the communities of Flatbush and East Flatbush. EA Ireland, the attorney for Equality for Flatbush, said, “The freedom of a community to express its outrage at the state's abuse of authority is a right, not a privilege meted out at the convenience of bureaucrats. When so-called civil servants lose sight of this principle, that is when it is incumbent upon us to remind them just who it is they serve."
“Both the Parks Department and the NYPD have been culpable in the rampant harassment of community members ticketing them for everything from barbecuing to walking through the park after dusk. , said, Victor Moses, an activist with Equality for Flatbush and a member with the East Flatbush Cop Watch Team, “The Parks Department has no problem allowing the NYPD to en masse a thousand cops on the same plaza and use it as a staging area to deploy themselves into our neighborhoods during the Caribbean Day Parade weekend. But when community members that are currently facing one of the worst housing crises in the history of New York City want to protest the rampant gentrification and racial profiling, they are told to ‘choose another day and find another park’. We see this as emergency situation and demand permits be issued now!”
Endorsers of the March against Gentrification, Racism, & Police Violence in Flatbush and East Flatbush as of 8/10/2016 are: 441 Brooklyn Avenue Tenant Association, Anita Neal, the mother of Kyam Livingston ,The Audre Lorde Project, Bar Chord, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Black Lives Matter-NYC, The Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network (BAN), The Brooklyn Greenery, Brooklyn Laundry Social Club, Caribbean American Pride, Clayton’s All Nation Unisex Salon, Rev. Clint Miller of Brown Memorial Baptist Church, Collectively Free, The Crystal House Project of The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Derecho a Techo, Direct Action Front for Palestine, Domestic Workers United, Families for Freedom, The Family of Shantel Davis, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), The Free Black Women's Library, Fort Greene Peace, Grand Putnam Tenants Association, Gratitude Cafe, Greater St. John's Baptist Church, Greenhouse Cafe, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, ICAHD-USA (The Israeli Committee against House Demolitions and Displacement-USA),Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), Jus Fishy, The Justice Committee, Latisha "Tish" Bellamy-Maldonado, Flatbush resident and survivor of police violence, The Law Office of Abdula Greene, Mi Casa No Es Su Casa, Milk, Not Jails, The Mind Over Matter Collective, Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), New Yorkers Against Bratton, NYC Solidarity with Palestine, NYC Trans Oral History Project , The Octavia Project, Pablo’s Diner, People's Power Assemblies, Right To The City Alliance, Sister Diaspora For Liberation, South Asian Fund for Education, Scholarship and Training (SAFEST), Tabeel's Aromatherapy Gift Shop and Salon, Third Root Community Health Center, and UPROSE
Contact: Imani Henry 646 342 9673
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equalityforflatbush · 3 years
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Please post widely Please Join 693 Madison Street Tenants, Equality for Flatbush and TakeRoot Justice on Sat, May 15th for the latest updates and next steps ! Please Wear Masks! https://fb.me/e/1qGaTKYmd In 2017, Isaac Hirsch and his company JIH Builders Group began a mass eviction campaign against the low-to-middle income rent-stabilized tenants at 693 Madison Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Many tenants were forced to leave, but several, mostly Black and Brown women choose to stay and fight by forming a tenant association. From illegal lockouts, dangerously hazardous conditions to filing a Supreme Court case, the 693 Madison Street Tenants have been relentless in their struggle against the extreme tenant harassment of JIH Builders Please Continue & Sign the petition to demand Isaac Hirsch & JIH Builders Stop the Evictions and Harassment of The Tenants of 693 Madison Street https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/105/427/784 Watch Video about this struggle : https://youtu.be/VOlNEMYfURg #BedStuy, #Brooklyn #MYNYCLandlord #NoEvictionZone #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack #JIHBuilders #693MadisonStreet #TenantsFightBack Video shot and Edited by Nadeem Salaam of Elev Trax @elevtrtrax BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: is a Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification / anti-displacement project of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org To get involved in this campaign and our other anti-displacement work contact : [email protected] or call /text (646)820-6039 https://www.instagram.com/p/COTakSJjhp6/?igshid=ud1cldcsvxj5
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equalityforflatbush · 5 years
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#bayridgeforsocialjustice speaking out at Brooklyn Housing Court !! #tenantsfightback #BKMarch2019 !  Sponsored by The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN) #BKMarch2019 #BANGentrification #TakeBackOurCommunities #beforeitsgone #takeitback #noevictionzone photo by @ryan.roco BAN & @micasaresiste leader (at Kings County Civil Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2xZ3FWggD0/?igshid=whiwdup1955t
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equalityforflatbush · 5 years
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#TenantTuesday the same cops from the 71 PCT that REFUSED to take a report from Black Elder Caribbean Tenants returned to 332 Rutland Rd. To HARASS the 332 Rutland Rd.Tenant Association and families impacted by police murders. #ArrestIsaccPollack #NoEvictionZone #MYNYCLandlord #Tenantsfightback #332RutlandRoad #Crownheights #brooklynisnotforsale https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw47Q94gEs1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lw1re27oloz3
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equalityforflatbush · 3 years
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Sienna on the mic at the Rally for 1st year anniversary of the 5-day eviction defense of the former #1214DeanStreet tenants sponsored by Equality for Flatbush, Brooklyn Movement Center and TakeRoot Justice #payusnow #noevictions #noevictionzone #mynyclandlord https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKasZ_jQOC/?utm_medium=tumblr
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equalityforflatbush · 3 years
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We want JUSTICE & DAMAGES for the #1214DeanSt Tenants 7/10 2-5pm at #PlantedCafeNyc owned by landlord Loretta Gendville at 333 Smith St . Equality for Flatbush is asking for video and photo evidence for the lawsuit, especially on July 7th to 2 am on July 8th (during the 1st night of eviction defense). All photos and videos of Loretta Gendville and Gennaro Brooks-Church from that evening are especially helpful. Please send photos and videos to [email protected] or call 646-820-6039. #TenantPower #TenantsFightBack #MYNYCLandlord #noevictions #NoEvictionZone (at Planted) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRJ17PPDd-T/?utm_medium=tumblr
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equalityforflatbush · 3 years
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#JIHBuilders : #BlackFamiliesMatter ! In 2017, Isaac Hirsch and his company JIH Builders Group began a mass eviction campaign against the low-to-middle income rent-stabilized tenants at 693 Madison Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Many tenants were forced to leave, but several, mostly Black and Brown women choose to stay and fight by forming a tenant association. From illegal lockouts, dangerously hazardous conditions to filing a Supreme Court case, the 693 Madison Street Tenants have been relentless in their struggle against the extreme tenant harassment of JIH Builders Please Continue & Sign the petition to demand Isaac Hirsch & JIH Builders Stop the Evictions and Harassment of The Tenants of 693 Madison Street https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/105/427/784 #BedStuy, #Brooklyn #MYNYCLandlord #NoEvictionZone #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack #JIHBuilders #693MadisonStreet #TenantsFightBack BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: is a Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification / anti-displacement project of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org To get involved in this campaign and our other anti-displacement work contact : [email protected] or call /text (646)820-6039 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPMJBm5jOhF/?utm_medium=tumblr
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equalityforflatbush · 3 years
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Thank you to the tenants & activists that came out on May 15th to stand with #693madisontenants . In 2017, Isaac Hirsch and his company JIH Builders Group began a mass eviction campaign against the low-to-middle income rent-stabilized tenants at 693 Madison Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Many tenants were forced to leave, but several, mostly Black and Brown women choose to stay and fight by forming a tenant association. From illegal lockouts, dangerously hazardous conditions to filing a Supreme Court case, the 693 Madison Street Tenants have been relentless in their struggle against the extreme tenant harassment of JIH Builders Please Continue & Sign the petition to demand Isaac Hirsch & JIH Builders Stop the Evictions and Harassment of The Tenants of 693 Madison Street https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/105/427/784 #BedStuy, #Brooklyn #MYNYCLandlord #NoEvictionZone #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack #JIHBuilders #693MadisonStreet #TenantsFightBack BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: is a Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification / anti-displacement project of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org To get involved in this campaign and our other anti-displacement work contact : [email protected] or call /text (646)820-6039 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPMI16ZD-UM/?utm_medium=tumblr
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equalityforflatbush · 6 years
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Isaac Pollack the infamous slumlord of 104/110 Empire Blvd. and 332 Rutland went around to tenants before a tenant Association meeting and threatened them to not come to the meeting . For over nine years Isaac Pollack has illegally denied all of these tenants access to a superintendent. In fact according to New York State law any building that has 16 units or more must have a superintendent either live on the premises or be in close proximity to the building. Instead hiring a super to properly maintain the building including properly disposing of trash, Isaac Pollack has become famous for illegally dumping trash and recycling from the buildings he owns. Tonight we caught him with both trash in his vehicle as well as reports from tenants who said they were personally threatened by Isaac Pollack to not attend the Tenants Association meeting tonight . Please continue to sign and circulate their petition: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/242/738/370/ and FLOOD Isaac Pollack with CALLS at (347) 680.5393 DEMAND he hire a super IMMEDIATELY! #ArrestIsaacPollack #NoEvictionZone #MYNYCLANDLORD #TenantsFightBack #BLACKLIVESMATTER #Beforeitsgone #takeitback (at Flatbush, Brooklyn)
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equalityforflatbush · 6 years
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please circulate widely :
2/2/18 UPDATE: This morning Issac Pollack sent someone to repair the broken appliances in the home of the Caribbean family on the 1st floor at 104 Empire Blvd.  Since 2016, the family has complained that both their stove and fridge were broken and needed to be replaced.  
Please continue to flood  Isaac Pollack with calls TODAY  at
(347) 680-539
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Let him know that the community stands with the family getting a NEW stove and fridge without having their rent increased.
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please REPORT Isaac Pollack to the city for the unsanitary conditions & illegal dumping of trash and recycling at 104 / 110 Empire Blvd. (see below)
 This is largely due to the fact Isaac Pollack refusing to hire a super for the building and has illegally deprived the tenants of services for over 10 years.   Here are the latest videos documenting Isaac Pollack disrupting tenant organizing at 104/110 Empire and illegally dumping garbage from the buildings : 1/11/18: Slumlord Isaac Pollack caught illegally dumping trash & threatening tenants -pt1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0S6zV2FZH4
1/11/18: Slumlord Isaac Pollack caught illegally dumping trash & threatening tenants -pt2 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhbqlKeNfQ
Report Isaac Pollack to 311:
http://www1.nyc.gov/311/
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Borough:BROOKLYN
Building #:104
Street Name:Empire Blvd
Apartment #:Not Provided
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1Unsanitary ConditionGarbage/Recycling StorageMissing or Inadequate Cans/LidBuilding-Wide
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Email Address:Not Provided
OWNER/LANDLORD
Owner First Name:Isaac
Owner Last Name:Pollack
Owner Phone #:
(347) 680-5393
Demand Notorious Slumlord Isaac Pollack provide a new stove and fridge to this Caribbean family at 104 Empire Blvd  FREE of charge by Monday, February 5th
To get involved in the campaign #ARRESTIsaacPollack contact: [email protected] OR Call 646.820.6039
BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is the  Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification campaign of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org
#ArrestIsaacPollack #NoEvictionZone #MYNYCLANDLORD #TenantsFightBack #BLACKLIVESMATTER #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack
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equalityforflatbush · 6 years
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IH Builders has used other illegal tactics of harassment to punish the remaining 693 Madison Street tenants in an effort to force them out of their apartments including: * Round the clock, non-stop construction on vacant apartments * The use of industrial paint with fumes so toxic that an ambulance had to be called for a grandmother and two children  * Restricting access to the basement with a combination lock on the door so tenants are unable to check meter readings. As a result, the gas and electric bills are higher than average *  The incessant blaring of the roof door alarm day and night after a JIH Builders worker came to fix the broken door * Sending 30-day notices to vacate * Refusal to issue new leases * Daily calls telling the tenants they must move We the undersigned stand with The 693 Madison Street Tenants Association and demand JIH Builders cease all tenant harassment and the mass evictions. We also call upon the community to contact Isaac Hirsch to tell him tenant harassment is a crime and that they must stop the mass evictions at 693 Madison Street: Isaac Hirsch President and CEO JIH Builders Group LLC 389 Willoughby Ave. Suite #207 Brooklyn NY 11205 P. 718-522-2750 Ext. 101 F. 866-200-8530 C. 347-489-5479 E. [email protected] www.jihbuilders.com For more on the struggle: See Equality for Flatbush's New Video: Support the 693 Madison Street Tenant Assoc against JIH Builders Group LLC (JIH): https://youtu.be/VOlNEMYfURg Video shot and Edited by Nadeem Salaam of Elev Trax @elevtrtrax BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification is a Brooklyn-wide project of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org  #BedStuy, #Brooklyn #MYNYCLandlord #NoEvictionZone #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack #JIHBuilders #693MadisonStreet #TenantsFightBack
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equalityforflatbush · 7 years
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New Video : Documenting the unsafe conditions & lack repairs Apt 3E at 441 Brooklyn Ave #ABBARealty https://youtu.be/cY5Ec3ZkWBs
Please Call Abba Realty  at 718.677.1667.  ask for Mike Spera , Steve Spera  or Carmella Chapman  &/ or email Carmella Chapman at : [email protected] - TELL them to provide EXTERMINATION & Make REPAIRS  at 441 Brooklyn Ave
For years tenants at 441 Brooklyn Avenue have been fighting their landlords,  Mike and Steve Spera/Abba Realty for repairs, mold removal, extermination, and building a ramp.
Since 2016, several tenants have reported dealing with bedbug, roach, and mice infestations because the building has not been properly exterminated for nearly a year. Thanks to Tommy Stang for editting this video! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6254320/
#MYNYCLANDLORD #MikeandSteveSpera #ABBARealty  #441BrooklynAve #NoEvictionZone #CrownHeights #Brooklyn #Beforeitsgone  #TakeItBack
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equalityforflatbush · 7 years
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URGENT ACTION ALERT : #SAVELIONHEART
Keep Lionheart Natural Herbs and Spices at 676 Nostrand Avenue
PACK THE COURT: Friday, October 6th, 141 Livingston (Room 603), 10:30 a.m.
Wear your Brooklyn is Not for Sale  or Defend Brooklyn shirt  or a Black shirt
SIGN THE PETITION:  Tell landlord Frank Morris:  
Brooklyn SUPPORTS LIONHEART Natural Herb and Spices !
Offer Tracey Reed a new lease !
Fix the bathroom and provide heat at 676 Nostrand Avenue !
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/750/087/767/
#BeforeItsGone #TakeItBack #MYNYClandlord #NoEviction
#CrownHeightsIsNotforSale #SupportSmallBusinesses
Background:
For over 15 years , Lionheart Natural Herbs & Spices, has been a cultural fixture in the Crown Heights business community. Owned, by Tracey Reed, a Caribbean single mom, Lionheart, sells a host of Afrocentric products, from herbs and spices to clothing and art.  Now with the rapid gentrification of  Crown Heights, her landlord, Frank Morris is trying to evict Ms. Reed, from her 676 Nostrand Avenue location.
Historically, Frank Morris has been a bad landlord. Along with failing to make essential repairs, Morris has not provided heat in the space since 2001.  The lack of heat then resulted in the pipes in the bathroom icing over and bursting.  Frank Morris never fixed the bathroom, forcing Tracey Reed, the owner of Lionheart to use the restroom at local bars and supermarkets for the last 16 years.  Fed-up with the lack of a working toilet and lack of heat , Ms. Reed withheld rent from Frank Morris, but because of this dispute, the landlord has not offered Ms. Reed a lease since 2008.
These problems have significantly impacted Reed’s business. Ceiling leaks led to damaged copper bracelets and other products. She could not hire a staff because of the lack heat and a working toilet at the store.  Not having a lease disqualified her from small business loans that would allow Lionheart to grow. And now, on October 6th , Frank Morris is attempting to evict Ms. Reed and her business from 676 Nostrand Avenue.
Tracey Reed and Lionheart Natural Herbs and Spices needs our support to keep Lionheart Natural Herbs and Spices at 676 Nostrand Avenue
PACK THE COURT: Friday, October 6th, 141 Livingston (Room 603), 10:30 a.m.
Wear your Brooklyn is Not for Sale  or Defend Brooklyn shirt  or a Black shirt
SIGN THE PETITION:  Tell landlord Frank Morris:  
Brooklyn SUPPORTS LIONHEART Natural Herb and Spices !
Offer Tracey Reed a new lease !
Fix the bathroom and provide heat at 676 Nostrand Avenue !
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/750/087/767/
#BeforeItsGone #TakeItBack #MYNYClandlord #NoEvictionZone
#CrownHeightsIsNotforSale #SupportSmallBusinesses
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equalityforflatbush · 7 years
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Video of notorious #Brooklyn slumlord #IsaacPollack disrupting a meeting of The 332 Rutland Road Tenant Association on 8/82107 https://youtu.be/_fR7BJyCbOk Report Isaac Pollack! for refusing to make Repairs & Tenant Harassment Call 311 or Complain Online: http://www1.nyc.gov/311/index.page CONTACT: [email protected] OR Call 646.820.6039 Full story on Isaac Pollack crimes against tenants especially against Black people in #Brooklyn https://beforeitsgone.co/stories/3jvTlI #ArrestIsaacPollack #NoEvictionZone #MYNYCLANDLORD #TenantsFightBack #BLACKLIVESMATTER
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