{"id":1563,"date":"2006-09-15T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/developer_charged_with_failing_to_maintain_waterfront_property_434_times.html"},"modified":"2006-09-15T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:23:06","slug":"developer_charg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/developer_charg.html","title":{"rendered":"Developer Charged With Failing To Maintain Waterfront Property 434 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though they cannot or will not prosecute him for actually setting the fire, the Brooklyn DA will charge developer Joshua Guttman with 434 counts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/bklyn_fire_crime_1_of_a_kind_regionalnews_alex_ginsberg.htm\">&#8220;failure to maintain waterfront property&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Joshua Guttman, 58, faces 434 counts of failure to maintain waterfront property &#8212; a misdemeanor only brought once before in history, said lawyer Robert Hill Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research discloses only one reported case in which this statute was enforced,&#8221; Schwartz said yesterday in Brooklyn Criminal Court. &#8220;So there&#8217;s a question as to this statute and whether it&#8217;s applicable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer said the research did not indicate how that case was disposed of or which of the five boroughs it was brought in.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Brooklyn DA countered that although their office could only document one such case that they prosecuted, other agencies and jurisdictions in the city had applied it &#8220;dozens of times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn prosecutors hit Guttman and his son, Jack, 26, with the charges following the suspicious fire at the Greenpoint Terminal Market last May 2.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/greenpoint\/terminalmarketfire\/index.htm\">Greenpoint Terminal Market Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though they cannot or will not prosecute him for actually setting the fire, the Brooklyn DA will charge developer Joshua Guttman with 434 counts of &#8220;failure to maintain waterfront property&#8221;: Joshua Guttman, 58, faces 434 counts of failure to maintain waterfront property &#8212; a misdemeanor only brought once before in history, said lawyer Robert Hill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-law_order","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}