Alternative Enforcement Program News Today

Residents of Daniel Ohebshalom's crumbling, rat-infested apartments can't help but feel like he had it coming.

The nearly 700 open violations between the pair of buildings at 705 and 709 170th Street in Manhattan have earned slumlord Daniel Ohebshalom an open arrest warrant, a two-month vacation at Rikers Island and fines of more than $3 million, housing officials said Monday.

Over the last four years, landlords of rent stabilized buildings in NYC have faced a number of challenges including new regulations, rent arrears and increased expenses.

The city has identified Gotham’s 250 most decrepit residential buildings and says that the owners collectively owe more than $3.4 million in unpaid emergency

Fed up tenants at a Crown Heights apartment building have launched a rent strike against their landlord for alleged porous living conditions.

CEO of YMY Acquisitions, Sam Applegrad, announces the successful rehabilitation of 851 East 163rd Street in the Bronx. The building was rescued from foreclosure and are all now fully updated, thanks to Applegrads extensive renovations.

The tenants of one of New York’s most notorious landlords are fighting for legal changes to keep their apartments affordable and safe.

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) announces 250 buildings with a high number of serious violations have been placed in the City’s Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP), an initiative that heightens enforcement against the City’s most distressed multi-family buildings. Over 50 buildings from Round 15 of...

The 250 buildings have amassed nearly 40,000 open violations for mold, rodents and lacking heat