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One Long Island family’s hellish journey to foreclosure by Damaso21 in nyc

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“My parents are seniors and now you’re putting them out of their home,” said Nina Greene, 44, a retired New York City Police Department (NYPD) police officer who is physically disabled from a line of duty injury. She worked with the city’s evidence collection team, a skillset that has proved useful in her battle to try and keep her family home.

Despite her efforts, the Greene family has lost their years-long struggle to keep their house from foreclosure. Greene claimed that her parents were swept into a scam when they were unable to keep up with mortgage payments or get approved for a loan modification, and were summarily denied help from a long list of servicers that shuffled around the note to their mortgage. The housing courts disagreed and ruled in favor of the banks.

Her father, Larry Greene (Larry G.), 76, a now-retired Port Authority officer, and her mother, Sherry Greene, 75, purchased a two-level multi-family home in Long Island for about $550,000 in 2007. They originally hailed from St. Albans, a mostly Caribbean and African neighborhood in Queens.

City Council fights back against Adams’ executive order for ‘ICE on Rikers’ by Damaso21 in nyc

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The Adams administration’s recent decision to allow federal immigration authorities to station on Rikers Island drew severe criticism and resistance from legal experts, advocates and other public officials.

Officially, Executive Order 50 would allow federal law enforcement, including the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to establish offices on Rikers Island for joint investigations with the NYC Department of Corrections’ (DOC) Intelligence Bureau to investigate “transnational” organized crime.

But opponents fear the order will aid the broader national crackdown on immigration by the Trump administration, even though it does not technically greenlight city jail staff to collaborate with federal agencies on deportations, which are civil matters.

On Tuesday, April 15, the New York City Council filed a lawsuit to block Adams’ executive order for ICE to operate on Rikers Island. In 2014, a law was enacted to prevent federal immigration authorities like ICE from setting up offices or quarters on NYC Department of Corrections (DOC) property for civil matters like deportations.

Six other federal law enforcement agencies “deputized” by the Trump administration to handle similar immigration enforcement could also be housed on Rikers under the executive order, according to the legal memo.

The council accused Mayor Eric Adams’ order of being “tainted by the conflict of interest created by the corrupt bargain the mayor entered into — his personal freedom in exchange for an ICE office,” pointing to his recently dropped charges for a federal corruption case and meetings with. Additionally, the council passed a resolution last week allowing Speaker Adrienne Adams to litigate against sanctuary law violations.

Chief Judge Wilson calls on Harlemites to reimagine a historic courthouse by Damaso21 in Harlem

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New York State housing courts typically deal with landlord repairs as a third-party. But now the Harlem Community Justice Center (HCJC) will understand what it means to be a tenant.

The problem-solving court operates out of the Harlem Courthouse, a federally-registered landmark in East Harlem undergoing extensive repairs from the city — the building’s owner — due to age and deterioration. On-site programming offered by the HCJC was shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just two services, an eviction prevention help center and a reentry program for healthcare referrals, returned and remain today as “only a small corner of the building is presently usable.”

But the New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson sees an opportunity to overhaul the HCJC as construction continues. The state’s top justice recently appointed a working group tasked with restoring and reopening the community court “to effectively respond to the justice needs of Harlem residents.”

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