There are reports this morning that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is looking into the Rivington House mess. The de Blasio administration lifted a deed restriction this past November on the longtime community facility, clearing the way for luxury housing in the former nursing home.
As city and state investigators continue to probe the Rivington House fiasco, more details are emerging about the Allure Group's maneuverings on the Lower East Side during the past few months.
Local elected officials and community leaders stood across the street from the former Rivington House building this morning, calling on the mayor to stop the luxury conversion of the former nursing facility.
The state attorney general has opened an inquiry into the Rivington House matter, in which the city lifted a deed restriction on the former nursing home.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council member Margaret Chin and Community Board 3 Chairperson Gigi Li will be holding a news conference tomorrow in front of the former Rivington House nursing home.
The de Blasio administration is in crisis mode over the growing Rivington House scandal. Two investigations are ongoing to find out whether it was incompetence or something more sinister that led city bureaucrats to lift a deed restriction on the former nursing facility.
The editorial boards of both the Daily News and the New York Post this week slammed the de Blasio administration, calling its mishandling of the Rivington House situation a "scandal." Today the Post wrote, "whether it was shear incompetence"...
There's now a money trail leading from Rivington House to Mayor de Blasio. The former nursing home for AIDS patients was sold for $116 million to luxury developers after the city's Department of Administrative Services (DCAS) lifted a deed...
