This article first appeared in the April 2015 issue of The Lo-Down's print magazine.
There’s nothing new about clashes between New York City tenants and property owners. On the Lower East Side, in particular, an affordable-housing bastion for generations, the...
Tenants at 113 Stanton St. have taken their landlord, Samy Mahfar of SMA Equities, to housing court. In a lawsuit filed Feb. 19 by the Urban Justice Center, the residents said their lives are being endangered due to unsafe...
