{"id":342,"date":"2005-08-19T09:36:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/08\/what_he_thought_eva_moskowitz_wouldnt_notice.html"},"modified":"2005-08-19T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T17:36:45","slug":"what_he_thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/what_he_thought.html","title":{"rendered":"What, He Thought Eva Moskowitz Wouldn&#8217;t Notice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/338629p-289134c.html\">another instance of an over-aggressive landlord trying to bully a tenant out of a fantastically undervalued rent-controlled apartment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An Upper East Side landlord cleared out his tenant&#8217;s $158-a-month rent-controlled apartment &#8211; then dragged the 87-year-old man out of the building when he tried to complain, authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Dominick Galofaro, 38, of Brooklyn was released on his own recognizance after being arraigned on felony charges yesterday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Chinatown cook Hop Eng found the lock changed on his fourth-floor walkup at 172 E. 89th St. when he returned Saturday from a two-month vacation in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>When he complained to Galofaro, the landlord told him he had taken over the apartment, said Eng&#8217;s son, Peter. &#8220;The defendant approached the victim, grabbed him by the hand, and forced him down the stairs and out of the building,&#8221; said Barbara Thompson, spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Galofaro on Wednesday and let Eng back into his apartment &#8211; but all that was left was a calendar, a salt shaker and La-Z-Boy chair.<\/p>\n<p>Eng said, through an interpreter, &#8220;99.99% of everything was gone, just missing. &#8220;Our memories, clothes, everything. Everything that&#8217;s been inside the apartment for 46 years.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, never fear, Council Member and Manhattan Borough President hopeful Eva Moskowitz is on the case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Eng pays just $158.06 for the dilapidated two-bedroom pad, while other tenants pay $1,500 for smaller units. Galofaro bought the building five months ago. Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz was helping Eng find temporary housing yesterday. &#8220;This is an outrage,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is every tenant&#8217;s worst nightmare.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Do you sometimes wonder what percentage of renters would take the risk of being thrown out on the streets in exchange for $158-a-month rent?  Just asking . . .)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another instance of an over-aggressive landlord trying to bully a tenant out of a fantastically undervalued rent-controlled apartment: An Upper East Side landlord cleared out his tenant&#8217;s $158-a-month rent-controlled apartment &#8211; then dragged the 87-year-old man out of the building when he tried to complain, authorities said yesterday. Dominick Galofaro, 38, of Brooklyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}