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LAND-LORD HAVE MERCY
Brooklyn home to worst slumlord in New York
BY TODD MAISEL
Brooklyn is home to the worst
landlord in New York City, according
to a new report from Public
Advocate Jumaane Williams.
Property owner Jason Korn
manages 13 properties in Brooklyn,
and two in Manhattan, that
made the Public Advocate’s 2019
Landlord Watchlist — featuring
a combined 2,877 open violations
with the city’s Department of
Housing Preservation.
Korn’ properties — which are
located in Midwood and Prospect-
Lefferts Gardens, among other
neighborhoods — house a combined
703 units, where tenants
routinely fi les complaints about
peeling lead paint, rats, roaches
and other vermin, dangerous
black mold and water leaking into
apartments, said the report.
The Public Advocate blasted
Korn as the “worst landlord” —
and pointed out that he’s risen on
the annual dishonor list.
“He was number nine last
year,” said Williams. “Now he is
number one.”
Williams presented his fi ndings
at a press conference on Monday
morning alongside various politicos,
including New York State
Attorney General Letitia James,
who threatened to take legal action
against landlords who violate
their basic responsibilities.
“They need to know, there is a
new sheriff in town,” James said.
“We will not go silently into the
night, we know the power of this
list and the shame they will face.”
And Brooklyn is no stranger to
other bad actors, according to Williams’
report, which shows that 44
of the 85 properties owned by the
10 worst private landlords are in
Kings County.
But, according to Williams,
the private landlords’ misdeeds
pale in comparison to the porous
conditions featured in the city’s
public housing stockpile — which
feature a whopping 290,857 outstanding
work orders across it’s
172,469 units.
“There is one landlord that
gets special ringing at the top, and
that is The New York City Housing
Authority,” he said. “The city
shouldn’t get away with having
290,000 work orders, over 100,000
from last year.”
Coney gets
anti-gun
funding
BY ROSE ADAMS
Coney Island Councilman
Mark Treyger announced
$850,000 in funding for anti-gun
violence programs on Wednesday
as shooting rates soar
throughout the neighborhood.
“Gun violence is not and cannot
be accepted,” said Treyger.
“The new investments that we
have made, and will continue to
make, focus on a holistic, comprehensive
public health approach
to public safety and gun
violence.”
The announcement came just
hours after police found an unconscious
38-year-old man in the
hallway with a gunshot wound
to the abdomen at the Carey
Gardens Houses on Surf Avenue.
First responders rushed
the victim to Coney Island Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
him dead, according to police,
who have not yet made any arrests
in the case.
The incident marks the 13th
shooting within the 60th Police
Precinct — which includes Coney
Island, Sea Gate, and west
Brighton Beach — marking a
more than three-fold increase
in shootings over the previous
year, according to Police Department
statistics.
The sharp rise in Coney Island
gun violence stands in
sharp contrast to the rest of the
borough, where shootings are
down from 231 to 205 year-todate.
In response to the peninsula’s
growing epidemic, Treyger
helped secure $300,000 from the
Mayor’s offi ce for an anti-gun
violence initiative in Coney Island
called the Crisis Management
System, which deploys ex-
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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams revealed the ‘Worst Landlord List’ at a Manhattan press confrence on Dec. 16. Photo by Todd Maisel
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