Fighting Back in Flatbush

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Fighting Back in Flatbush | Jess McAllen

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In Brooklyn, tenants have won a major victory against a notorious property company—but the battle is far from over.

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The residents of 1834 Caton Avenue, which has over eighty units across six floors, have been asking for adequate living conditions for years. Tenants say the building has gone through periods of good and bad management, but things got noticeably worse when Goldmont Realty took over in 2015, after buying the property for a whopping $18.5 million—a big jump from its $11 million sale to Caton Avenue Partners LLC in 2013.

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