Notorious Park Slope senior home landlord finally settles with ousted tenants

Haysha Deitsch has finally paid the $3.35M he owed the tenants

The long and complicated saga of Prospect Park Residence, the Park Slope assisted living facility may finally be coming to an end. After previously defaulting to pay the five remaining tenants at the facility, notorious landlord Haysha Deitsch has finally shelled out the $3.35 million he owed the tenants, DNAinfo reports.

In June this year, the five women at the senior home reached a settlement with Deitsch to stay at the Residence until August 31 and receive the above-mentioned amount to relocate afterwards. The following month, Deitsch defaulted on those payments, and the tenants’s lawyers at the time threatened to file another lawsuit against Park Slope's worst landlord.

However Deitsch finally coughed up the funds on August 26, a lawyer for the tenants told DNAinfo. The tenants have been battling Deitsch since 2014, when he told the residents that they had 90 days to vacate the property.

Most of the Residence’s 140 tenants left, but others decided to fight it out through legal means. While the lawsuit with Deitsch is now settled, the tenants’s lawsuit against the state Department of Health is still ongoing for allowing the facility to close.

Deitsch had already sold the building to Sugar Hill Partners for $76.5 million.

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What old-school NYC things do you hope never go away?

Sound off in the comments!

It seems like every week brings the news that another business or institution that was emblematic of Old New York is closing. Today, for example, New York Central Art Supply will shut its doors after 111 years in business.

The reason for its demise is, of course, Manhattan’s ridiculous real estate market; in a post announcing the closure, the owners said that "the building we have called home since 1905 is being sold and we must vacate it."

And while it’s easy to get depressed over the fact that many of the things that make New York New York have suffered the same fate in recent years (too many to list, but Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York will always have you covered there), sometimes it’s good to celebrate the quintessentially New York-y things that are still here.

And there are plenty of those places—Russ & Daughters, for example, has been a Lower East Side institution for more than a century and shows no signs of stopping (thank God). Bars like Ear Inn, Pete’s Tavern, and Old Town Bar are still serving pints after many, many decades in business; and C.O. Bigelow on Sixth Avenue is still kicking after more than 150 years.

In that vein—and inspired by a recent post on the Philadelphia Inquirer—we want to know: What are some of the old-school New York things that you hope never go away? Shops, cultural institutions, random neighborhood landmarks, the characters that make this city great—tell us all about it in the comments.

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Idyllic Queens mansion with World’s Fair ties wants $2.3M

The massive home comes with a huge yard and lots of vintage charm

The brokerbabble for this idyllic Queens Tudor is a little over the top—promising "the best of yesterday which people want but can’t get today," and "magnificent one of a kind, museum quality." But the place is loaded with original details "lovingly preserved by one family for over 80 years," and indeed, it is a beauty.

Designed by architect Angelo Paretta—who also did the Fulton Street Fish Market, among other projects—it’s hard to know quite where to start the property’s many vintage charms, but notable highlights include stained glass windows, decorate hardwood floors, and "wood details taken from the English Pavilion of the 1939 World’s Fair." That is cool.

Listed at $2.3 million, the 2,140-square-foot Murray Hill home comes with plenty of outdoor space, too: it’s nestled on a pleasantly green triple-wide corner lot, ideal for gardeners, children, and golden retrievers.

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