NYC’s ‘Worst Landlord’ Begins 60-DAY SENTENCE AT RIPers

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Landlord Daniel Ohebshalom Surrenderered to the New York City Sheriff’s Office on Thursday and Will Begin A 60-Day Jail After Blowing Through Multiple Deadlines to Address “Immediately Hazardous Violations” in Two of His Washington Heights.

The arrest warrant Issued Earlier This Month is a rarity in the Housing World. Ohebshalom has spent years on the City’s List of Worst Landlords, and Things Were Particularly Direct at 705 and 709 West 170th Street: The Buildings Have Been Wounded with Mice, Raoches, Lead Paint, and Broken Windows, issser that ohebshalom – over of -Showed a “Sustained Lack of Seriousness in Addressing,” According to a Housing-Court Judge. Thus, The Warrant.

Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr. Talk to Reporters Outside City Hall About The Arrest of Daniel Ohebshalom.
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In an interview before Ohebshalom Surrenderered, Ashley Viruet, A Supervising Atorney At Legal Services Nyc’s Manhattan Office who is representing tenants in the Washington Heights Buildings, Told with That’s The Warrant Alone Had Already Done Some Good The The The Thet Threat of this was on the table, repairs were not being being done at all. ” Once the postsitility of Jail Time Became a “Real Discussion,” She Said, Management Started to Paint and Make Plaster Repairs: “IT’S NOT The Deeper, Substantive We Waul to SEE, but they are in and doing for the first time in years.”

The City’s Housing and Preservation Department First Sted Ohhebshalom in 2021 and late placed HIS WASHINGTON HEIGHTS UNDER THE ALBANIAN ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH REQUIRES LANDLORDS TO CORRECT VIOLATS FOUR MONTHS. Squalid Conditions persisted in bot Buildings as the City Says Ohebshalom Ignored A String of Court Orders. “The Most Strking Factor,” The Court Wrote Do ORDERING HIS Arrest, “Is the Datation of the Contempt Proceeding.” (Ohbshalom’s Lawyer Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment.)

SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW? AFTER TRANNING HIMSELF IN, OHEBSHALOM WAS TRANSED TO RIPERS ISLAND TO BEGIN The two SENTENCE, WHICH COULD BE REDUCED IF The Nearly 700 Outstanding Violations the Two Buildings Are Corrected. Meanwhile, His Tenants on 170th Street Remain on Rent Strike. “I know tenants feel that they’re finally being heard,” Viruet Told with Earlier This Week. “Someone is finally see all the suffering.”