Ben Shaoul, the young developer who has emerged as the East Village's most despised landlord, is apparently expanding his real estate empire into the Lower East Side. In June, he bought three contiguous buildings on Ludlow Street between Stanton and Houston, according to city...
There are new details to report this morning concerning the renovation saga at at a building East 12th Street, one of controversial landlord Ben Shaoul's many Manhattan rental buildings. As we have recounted in past stories, he has tried...
We first met Kym Gomes this past April, a couple of days after she was plucked from her fourth floor apartment by a fire department cherry picker. This 18-year resident of a building on East 12th Street was unable...
On Monday afternoon, Kym Gomes left her East 12th Street apartment, on her way to work (she has a night job). She walked down the stairs of the five-story tenement that's been home for the past 18 years but...
There may be some good news for Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the East Village today, just as 2011 comes to a close.
This afternoon, we've received a copy of a letter from an attorney representing the owner...
Earlier this month, The Lo-Down learned the building housing the Cabrini Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation on East 5th Street recently sold for $25.5 million. Today, the neighborhood's elected officials are out with a letter to the new owner,...
