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The only ones whining here are you (whining about landlords) and me (whining about you).

People like your father are inspirations to me. I have loved learning about some of the activists from the 50s and 60s that were pushing to uplift their communities. The push for community building, unionization, and uplifting the working class that was present in the US during the late 1800s and early/mid-1900s ran deep -- but has largely been ignored as a part of US history. Speeches by Fred Hampton and other leaders during the 50s/60s still bring me hope of what our cities can become.

Then they shouldn't be whining about it.

Whoa, a NYPost post without the obligatory auto-mod disclaimer.

Love the idea

Why is he still being charged?

It’s paradoxical how DA Bragg and the criminal justice crowd suddenly become “tough-on-crime” whenever someone is just trying to protect their honest livelihood.

Of course business owners run a risk of losing a lot of money. This is not an interesting statement.

I read the entire article, because i have a background in commercial real estate, construction, and architecture and the topic interests me.

They are business owners. If you have a business and your market disappears, too bad. That was a risk you ran. Your investment is no longer profitable, so convert the business into something that is profitable, or lose your money.

There are worse defendants out there with public defense representation.

If they don’t have an attorney representing them in court, then the whole case could be canceled because no one can be tried criminally without an attorney.

Possibly true. It’s the only way I would have heard about it.

Whether you have sympathy is absolutely irrelevant.

At Maimonides, by and large, nobody gives a damn about anything unless you somehow have connections to someone important.

Here comes another thread of nitwits who didn’t read the article and who have no curiosity about the details of residential conversion offering their irrelevant view that they don’t feel sorry for landlords.

I think the reference is that the property owners have many thoughts, even more desires, a million of ideas, and it seems time to mulch over them. Which is another way of saying chewing fat.

However, I would imagine when your money and investments are on the line, while it is prudent to concider all possibilities in order to make the best economic decision, some sort of decision is better than loosing value or potential revenue for every day that a decision is not reached.

In other words, measure twice or thrice, perhaps thirty times if needed, but cut once.

I meant the Legal Aid Society should have rejected them as clients because they don't seem to be indigent owning a construction company.

Hey, genius redditor who doesn't know the different between permits and leases knows more than prominent eminent domain lawyers !... Amazing

"Michael Rikon, an attorney whose law firm focuses on eminent domain — cases in which government takes or restricts private property — says said he agreed with MSG’s claim that it’s being singled out, given that MSG owns the property and has successfully operated it.

If the city denied the MSG permit, Rikon said, “Just compensation would be required."

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Wouldn’t that make it harder to win wage theft cases?

Criminal cases can be dropped for a lot of non-merit reasons and require a “beyond any reasonable doubt” burden of proof.

Civil cases only require preponderance of evidence and don’t have strict timelines (such as speedy trial) or onerous discovery requirements on the plaintiff side.

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You and everyone else.

Yeah I’m not making two stops before Wall Street from Bay Ridge when it’s a 35 min express bus trip or a 40 min subway ride.

Wage theft is bigger than every other type of property crime. If you add up all the burglaries and larcenies, wage theft is multiple times larger. Some estimates put it as high as $15 billion per year, and almost all of it happens to people that make under $13/hr.

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