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July 25, 2012
Downtown evictees: The city is booting us from Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Paper
by Natalie O'Neill
Tenants at one of Downtown’s last rent-stabilized buildings say they aren’t just getting evicted — they’re getting kicked out of Brooklyn.
Low-income residents of a brick tenement on Albee Square between Willoughby and Fulton streets claim they received city-stamped letters reneging on a promise to provide nearby housing after the city made plans to demolish their home and build a small park and a parking lot in its place.
Dozens of tenants found out the city will place them into far-away areas of the Bronx and Manhattan — even though the Department of Housing Preservation and Development agreed to give them “comparable housing,” after it acquired the five-story building using eminent domain, activists and residents say.
The agency has not provided any living options in the neighborhood, let alone the borough, said Carlos Barrera, who has lived there for decades.
Posted by eric at July 25, 2012 2:47 PM