{"id":2047,"date":"2007-01-25T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/on_the_one_hand_there_are_battle_axes_on_the_other_there_are_gun_runners.html"},"modified":"2007-01-25T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T18:32:56","slug":"on_the_one_hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/on_the_one_hand.html","title":{"rendered":"On The One Hand There Are Battle Axes, On The Other There Are Gun Runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some landlords may be <a href=\"http:\/\/nypress.com\/20\/4\/news&#038;columns\/rentaldem.cfm\">hard-assed old battle axes<\/a> but at least they&#8217;re not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/491263p-413761c.html\">gun runners<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Brooklyn landlord who once smuggled high-powered sniper rifles to Kosovo guerrillas is now at the center of a more domestic dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Tenants in a Carroll Gardens building are taking their landlord, Florin Krasniqi, to court, claiming he is using a ploy to kick them out of their rent-regulated homes.<\/p>\n<p>The six low-income families live in a four-story walk-up at 137 Nelson St., where all the apartments are either rent-stabilized or rent-controlled. The tenants, some of whom have lived in the building for more than 40 years, pay between $350 and $550 a month.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The tenants&#8217; attorney, Michael Weisberg, said he wasn&#8217;t aware of Krasniqi&#8217;s intrigue-filled past, which was detailed in a 2005 PBS documentary, &#8220;The Brooklyn Connection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No way. Wow. That doesn&#8217;t bother me,&#8221; Weisberg said of Krasniqi&#8217;s history as a gun-runner. &#8220;I&#8217;ve met him. He didn&#8217;t seem particularly dangerous. He seemed like a jackass landlord.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some landlords may be hard-assed old battle axes but at least they&#8217;re not gun runners: A Brooklyn landlord who once smuggled high-powered sniper rifles to Kosovo guerrillas is now at the center of a more domestic dispute. Tenants in a Carroll Gardens building are taking their landlord, Florin Krasniqi, to court, claiming he is using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","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=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}