Sentences with phrase «to lift the deed restriction»

Under previous laws, the administrative agency can lift deed restrictions in exchange for a fee, with approval from the mayor's office of contract services, but not necessarily the mayor.

In February, de Blasio administration officials fired Morales, who in 2015 signed off on paperwork lifting the deed restrictions on Rivington House, a Lower East Side nursing home.

In addition, authorities are looking into straw donors in the mayor's campaign and examining why the city lifted deed restrictions on multiple properties for individuals who donated to the mayor's nonprofit or his effort to win back the Senate.

The board on Wednesday lifted the deed restrictions and issued the special - use permit allowing Co...

Chin has introduced legislation that would require public notice be given to local administrative bodies whenever the city considers lifting a deed restriction, and would create a public database for properties with deed restrictions.

The de Blasio administration has ordered all work to stop at Rivington House, the Lower East Side property that sold for a $ 72 million profit after the city mysteriously lifted deed restrictions.

The mayor has repeatedly said his administration should have never lifted deed restrictions at Rivington House, but claims nothing can be done legally to wrest control of the building from its new owners, Slate Property Group, Adam America Real Estate and China Vanke.

At a press conference calling for new rules for lifting deed restrictions like the one in that now - notorious case, the speaker called it «very troubling» that the mayor's office impeded the Department of Investigation's probe of the affair.

Allure then paid the city $ 16 million to lift the deed restriction requiring the building be used for nonprofit business.

Ricardo Morales, the city official who approved lifting deed restrictions that allowed a Lower East Side nursing home to be flipped for luxury condos, was fired just hours after de Blasio's highly anticipated sit - down with federal prosecutors, his attorney confirmed.

The owner, Slate Property Group, bought the property from the Allure Group for $ 116 million, a sale contingent on getting the city to lift a deed restriction so the new owner could convert the building from an AIDS hospice to luxury apartments.

And probers are checking the details behind the city lifting the deed restrictions on multiple properties for individuals who donated to the mayor's nonprofit or his effort to win back the Senate.

Under current laws, the administrative agency can lift deed restrictions in exchange for a fee, with the sign off from the mayor's office of contract services, but not the mayor himself.

The board on Wednesday lifted the deed restrictions and issued the special - use permit allowing Core Campus to build the 154 - unit, four - story building on 6.4 acres on North Forest Road near Bryant Woods South.

De Blasio said if he had known the city was being asked to consider lifting the deed restrictions, it would have been «the easiest no» he had ever given.

The city has ordered all work to stop at Rivington House, the Lower East Side property that sold for a $ 72 million profit after the city mysteriously lifted deed restrictions.

Although Mayor Bill de Blasio has said it was a mistake for his administration to lift deed restrictions at Rivington House, he has also said the city can not legally take back the building.

In early 2015, the City lifted deed restrictions on the former public school, then AIDS hospice center, and the building was subsequently sold to a luxury condo developer, at the outrage of the general public.

The company had the capital commitments to purchase the facility and pay to lift the deed restrictions, and also said it intended to keep the facility's nearly 200 union jobs, a pledge that helped win the backing of 1199 SEIU, the powerful health care union that maintains close ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio and to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Core Spaces wanted to build a 154 - unit complex on North Forest Road, about one mile north of the University at Buffalo North Campus, but needed the Town Board to lift deed restrictions on the property and to issue a special use permit for the project.

Earlier this year, news broke that the de Blasio administration had lifted a deed restriction on a Lower East Side nursing home owned by a major campaign donor, who promptly sold it for a massive profit to a development group that plans to convert it into condos.

Both men are part of a separate investigation by Bharara's office into Allure's sale of a nonprofit nursing home on Manhattan's Lower East side to a luxury condo developer after de Blasio's administration made the unusual decision to lift the deed restriction.

Then there's the look into Rivington House, a former AIDS hospice where the city lifted a deed restriction that will ultimately allow for the development of lucrative condos at the site, where developers were at times represented by a lobbyist tight with Mr. de Blasio.

Another is looking at how city officials agreed to lift a deed restriction on a former nursing home for AIDS patients that is slated to be turned into luxury housing.

Those include a lead paint scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trips.

Allure bought the property from nonprofit Villagecare for $ 28 million and later sold it to real estate developer Slate Property Group for $ 116 million, after receiving permission from the city to lift a deed restriction that required the building be used as a nonprofit health care facility.

It was de Blasio's administration that lifted deed restrictions on Rivington House, the former AIDS nursing home, allowing the longtime community facility to fall into the hands of luxury condo developers.

Probes by city investigators and the city comptroller's office later found significant bungling and miscommunication by city officials in lifting the deed restrictions, but nothing illegal.

The requests come several months after the city lifted deed restrictions on the Rivington House nursing home, paving the way for the property to be sold to a developer that plans to convert it to luxury housing — a deal now being investigated by the US Attorney's Office.

From the May issue: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is examining the de Blasio administration's decision to lift a deed restriction on a former nursing...

The bill came in response to the controversial sale of Rivington House after the city lifted a deed restriction on the property that required the property's use as a nursing home.

The borough president insisted that he did not have all the details on the five probes into Mr. de Blasio's political nonprofits, his funneling cash into Democratic State Senate campaigns in 2014, his administration's decision to lift a deed restriction for a well - connected developer, on his acceptance of cash from potential straw donors in 2013 and into his relationship with animal rights groups dedicating to abolishing horse - driven carriages in Central Park.

The proposal is part of an attempt to prevent a repeat of the Rivington House scandal, in which Allure Group paid the city $ 16.1 million to lift the deed restriction on a nursing home at 45 Rivington Street.

In the Rivington House scandal, Allure Group paid the city $ 16.1 million to lift the deed restriction on a nursing home at 45 Rivington Street.

But it did turn out quite nicely for real estate investors the Allure Group, which after paying $ 16.5 million to lift a deed restriction on the property, turned a $ 28 million February 2015 facility purchase into a $ 116 million sale that would turn the nursing home into a condo project.