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GREENPOINT | WILLIAMSBURG

VOLUME 47 | NUMBER 35

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

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A NEW PROMENADE AT NEWTOWN BARGE PARK: Newtown Barge Park was an existing city park, but plans to expand it were made several years ago. Here’s the World Trade Center as seen from Newtown Barge Greenpoint Gazette photo by Lore Croghan Park at dusk.

W’burg loft building’s tenants see hopes to stay fade By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY

Gazette photos by Alex Williamson

This story was originally published on Sept. 16 by THE CITY. In May, residents of Williamsburg’s 240 Broadway thought they’d won a fighting chance to stay in their homes, with the launch of an audit into their landlord’s long-ago transformation of their once-industrial building into apartments. Tenants had pinned their hopes on the Department of Buildings revoking the structure’s certificate of occupancy, which they contended had been invalidly issued based on subpar construction. That would allow the tenants to claim protection against eviction under New York’s Loft Law, which shields residents during and after conversions of the industrial spaces they call home. But since then, tenants say, they’ve faced intensifying pressure to leave now that the Brooklyn building has been sold. Soon after buying the building for $16.5 million, the new landlord, 240 Broadway Properties LLC, started issuing notices to tenants in the 24 apartments, demanding they vacate within 30 days. continued on page 3

LEFT: 240 Broadway in South Williamsburg on Sept. 12, 2019.

Rafael Espinal announces run for Brooklyn Borough President SEE STORY ON PAGE 2

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