September 8, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
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Uphill battle
for woman in
apt. dispute
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Auto shop owners fi ght for access
Displaced businesses in Willets Point want city to clear Iron Triangle gates
From left, Rodrigo Sinchi, Robert LoScalzo and Spencer Flores discuss strategies to open the gates blocking Willets Point Boulevard.
BY MAX PARROTT
Rodrigo Sinchi was lured to
move his auto shop out of Willets
Point by city-subsidized economic
incentives in 2015. Then he was
evicted from the city-guaranteed
new location in the Bronx in
2017.A
fter he conceded about
$20,000 of lost income, gave up
on managing his own shop, and
went back to the Iron Triangle to
find a gig just to get by, the city
barred traffic from his new place
Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
of work by gating off Willets Point
Boulevard as phase one of its
adjacent megadevelopment.
After over five years of
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BY MARK HALLUM
Arlene Moskowitz’s landlordtenant
dispute has been years
shaping up as the housing
section division of the Queens
County Civil Court is woefully
understaffed, her son Howie
claims.
But for upwards of about five
years, Moskowitz’s status in her
rent controlled apartment in
Rego Park where she has lived
since the early eighties has fallen
into disrepair. Her son claims her
landlord is attempting to force
her out and destabilize the unit.
According to the city
Department of Finance, the
owner of the co-op unit is Mew
Hills LLC, a corporation operated
by David and Amy Weber, which
acquired the unit in 2002.
Moskowitz has been
attempting to square things with
the landlord in housing court, but
with understaffed windows for
deliberations to be made orders
to Housing Preservation and
Development have a tendency to
fall through the cracks.
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