Judge cuts $50M punitive damages award to neighbors of smelly hog farm
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
A new investigative report, “Nightmare Neighbors: How Badly Maintained Homes Damage Neighborhoods,” revealed that dilapidated homes throughout the city cost $ 54 million citywide — and $ 2.82 million on Staten Island alone — in depreciation. Senator Diane Savino and members of the Independent Democratic Conference plan to release a new investigative report on Monday […]
Ten years after the foreclosure crisis began, the pain grinds on locally in low-income areas and communities of color, while big financial institutions are riding high with billions of dollars in profits amid record stock-market peaks. So why are banks letting local homes they foreclosed on and now own rack up hundreds of city violations […]
Two weeks before a fire in a condemned Roxbury home left a woman dead and her boyfriend badly burned, neighbors complained to the city about squatters, drug use, and fires on the property, which had fallen into foreclosure after the owner was convicted in a massive real estate scam last year. Since September, neighbors living […]
John Franken, owner of the home in the background, standing by a “zombie” house at 80 Renaissance Drive in Clifton. On Berdan Avenue in Fair Lawn, a piece of black tarp hangs off the roof of a brick Cape Cod, and two dead evergreens stand sentinel at the front steps. Foreclosure News
A mother from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested on Tuesday for whipping her three children as punishment for burglarizing a neighbor’s home. The mother, 30-year-old… ABA Journal Daily News
Nearly four decades after it was converted from a grand movie palace into a Pentecostal church, drama has returned to the El Rey Theater on Ocean Avenue. In December, the El Rey changed hands for the first time since 1977, selling in a trustee sale on the steps of City Hall for $ 1.06 million. […]