The state’s housing division backed the city’s decision that the landlord of Independence Plaza North could charge its tenants market-rate rents.
The ruling by a federal judge Monday gives 4,300 residents the right to leave housing that has been compared to warehouses.
After a Brooklyn jury found three police officers not guilty of abusing Michael Mineo, both sides of the case followed a familiar script.
Two executives of Testwell Laboratories, once New York’s top concrete testing company, were convicted of enterprise corruption in connection with the falsification of tests.
Officers Richard Kern, Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales face Internal Affairs and federal investigations into their treatment of Michael Mineo, as well as Mr. Mineo’s civil rights lawsuit.
The personal assistant of Linda S. Stein, who managed the Ramones and was a real estate agent for celebrities, was found guilty.
A Bronx judge ruled that prosecutors had failed to prove that the owners knew that some tenants carved up their apartments with a maze of partitions.