Email Author Matthew Schuerman

2004 Stories by Matthew Schuerman

• Court of Lost Resort

  published April 20, 2004

  Abdus Shahid bought a well-worn three-story building in Bushwick out of foreclosure back in 1997, apparently thinking he could rent the apartments... More >>

• Ratner Rules

  published March 30, 2004

  The proposed site plan for Bruce Ratner's central Brooklyn development looks like a saber, with the Nets' basketball arena near the point, where... More >>

• The Fire Down Below

  published March 9, 2004

  First, the residents in a pair of DUMBO lofts are evacuated because of unsafe conditions. Next, the landlord's attempt to change the building's... More >>

• Open Door Policy

  published February 24, 2004

  The door that Timothy Stansbury Jr. Almost made it through five weeks ago, as he was heading to the roof of his Bedford-Stuyvesant project, still... More >>

• Harlem Complex Endangered as Federal Subsidy Expires

  published February 10, 2004

  If landlord Herbert Wright can hold city housing inspectors at bay, he could turn his 231-unit complex into the type of expensive housing that new... More >>

• Where Credit Is Due

  published January 27, 2004

  Anyone who wants a new affordable-housing program these days better make sure it's cheap, voluntary, and not too big. A citywide coalition of more... More >>

• Bench Pressed

  published January 13, 2004

  Two landlords in the Bronx have succeeded in kicking community organizers out of their buildings, even as tenants complain that drug dealers can... More >>