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The effort is being spearheaded by Democratic Councilman Oswald Feliz, who was elected last year to represent a section of the Bronx that includes the Twin Parks apartment tower in Fordham Heights where a fire killed 17 people on Jan. 9, 2022.
Affordable housing should never have become an asset class for the rich to make returns on investments. Of course this system is broken
Landlords of Bronx building were buying up affordable housing in New York
The companies purchased Twin Parks North West, the Bronx building where there was a deadly fire, along with seven other buildings in the borough for $166 million.
On another Sunday 35 years ago — March 2, 1986 — a trash compactor fire on the 12th floor sent thick plumes of heavy smoke through a vertical shaft into the six floors above, trapping residents and turning hallways black, according to an FDNY report obtained by the Daily News.