The Village Voice rounds up the ten cruellest, most outright criminal landlords in the five boroughs for 2014, including voyeurs, arsonists, thugs and bullies — and then there’s Robin Shimoff:
The company 3525 Decatur Avenue LLC tops out the Public Advocate’s list of the city’s worst landlords with a whopping 3,352 open violations across 13 properties — including the worst building in the city, 940 Grand Concourse, whose 660 violations include overflowing garbage rooms, leaky ceilings, and rat infestations so bad that tenants are afraid of walking through the hallways. Extreme negligence appears to be a family tradition: 3525 Decatur is run by Robin Shimoff, whose father, Jacob Selechnik, was an infamous slumlord in his own right. (Presumably, the trash and rodent problems that plague her properties are not an issue at Shimoff’s own home, a seven-bedroom, $1.2 million house in Rockland County.)
The Ten Worst New York City Landlords of 2014 [Cari Romm/Village Voice]
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