At noon, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, Goodard Riverside Law Project, local elected officials, affordable housing advocates and tenants holds a
press conference to announce the filing of a temporary restraining order
against illegal hotel
operator Michael Edelstein, owner of the Imperial Court, a single room occupancy building on the Upper West Side, 230 West 72nd St., Manhattan.
The suit
against one of the
operators is sealed and not public, but the CFTC issued
press releases detailing the action
against the other two
operators, CabbageTech (also known as Coin Drop Markets) and The Entrepreneurs Headquarters.