Month: April 2008

According to PropertyShark (via the Real Deal), first-quarter foreclosures are way up in NYC. The distribution is interesting – Queens leads with a whopping 508 (in one three-month period), and Staten Island is second with 174. Brooklyn had 140, the Bronx 73 and Manhattan only 23.

In the Times’ Cityroom blog today, a story about Kennedy Rivera, “a housing specialist with Bushwick Housing Independence, a nonprofit group that by its own account takes on 30 clients a month fighting eviction by landlords eager to rent to younger, hipper and better-off tenants”.

This morning, a tractor trailer crashed into a building at 51 Kent Avenue, at the corner of north 11th Street. As Gothamist has already noted, Williamsburg starts at North 14th Street. I’d add that Kent Avenue is in Wiliamsburg, Kent Street is Greenpoint.

Yet another crony resigns. Of course not for his work presiding over the largest housing meltdown in over 70 years; nor for politicizing his office. Just run of the mill corruption and cronyism.

Nice job, Al.

(In related news, the Mine Safety and Health Agency is apparently a little too cozy with the mine companies it regulates:

The federal agency charged with overseeing mine safety was negligent in protecting workers at the Crandall Canyon Mine, the Labor Department’s own Inspector General says in a new report.