(New York Post) Landlords in a gentrifying section of Brooklyn are trying to force out black tenants in favor of white newcomers by ignoring repair requests, offering cash buyouts and forcing evictions, a new federal lawsuit charges.
Tenants at two large complexes on Brooklyn Avenue and Hawthorne Street in East Flatbush, just east of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, claim that after Yeshaya Wasserman, Shay Wasserman and Yitzchok Rambod bought the buildings in 2009, the landlords immediately began mistreating longtime tenants to try to drive them out.
The suit alleges that white tenants are not subjected to the same shoddy treatment and that the owners are blatantly trying to boot existing tenants who live in rent-controlled units.