"At a press conference outside 80 Woodruff Avenue in Flatbush - a building owned by two of the list's top offenders, Margaret Brunn and Donald Hastings of A&E Real Estate Holdings - Williams said the pair had accumulated more violations than any landlords in the watchlist's history. A combined 60 properties owned by Brunn and Hastings have nearly 9,000 open violations, including rat and roach infestations, mold, heat and hot water outages, broken elevators, and other safety hazards."
""This is the first known instance of the top two landlords representing the same entity, and demonstrates both the breadth of the violations at their properties and the means with which corporate entities seek to avoid accountability with different LLCs and head offices in city records," Williams said, noting that the city last week settled a lawsuit with A&E Real Estate mandating repairs across its portfolio."
The seventh annual Worst Landlord Watchlist names New York City's most negligent property owners by number of unresolved housing code violations. Two landlords, Margaret Brunn and Donald Hastings, together own 60 properties with nearly 9,000 open HPD violations. Reported conditions include rat and roach infestations, mold, heat and hot water outages, broken elevators, and collapsing infrastructure. The list notes corporate efforts to obscure ownership through multiple LLCs and separate head offices and references a recent settlement requiring A&E Real Estate to make repairs across its portfolio. The watchlist functions as an organizing tool to inform and empower tenants to demand repairs.
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