179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

On January 17, 1996, Landlord Slavik Gofman added to his real estate portfolio, 179 East 93rd Street NYC 10128, the historic childhood home of the Marx Brothers; a tenement, fully subject to New York's Rent Regulations.  But make no mistake. Landlord Slavik Gofman was not about to let the fact that 179 East 93rd Street is a rent regulated building interfere with his plan to unlawfully capitalize on his new acquisition. Quite to the contrary, Landlord Slavik Gofman bought 179 East 93rd Street with no intention of complying with New York's Rent Regulations or with the NYC Building Code for that matter. See, June 16, 2021 screenshot reflecting 124 open violations against Landlord Slavik Gofman's 179 East 93rd Street property issued by the NYC Department of Housing, Preservation & Development (HPD).  Since the get-go, Gofman's plan has been to ignore the Rent Stabilized status of the apartments he purchased. For Gofman truly does not believe the law applies to him. No...

Ever since he added 179 East 93rd Street - the historic childhood home of the Marx Brothers - to his NYC real estate portfolio, Landlord Slavik Gofman has and continues to engage in an ongoing fraudulent scheme to unlawfully deregulate Rent Control and Rent Stabilized apartments throughout the building. When Gofman bought 179 East 93rd Street on January 17, 1996, every apartment in the building was regulated by the New York State Division of Homes & Community Renewal (DHCR). Some of the apartments were Rent Control and others were Rent Stabilized.  But, as Gofman's goal was and still is to deregulate 179 East 93rd Street apartments, each time a legacy tenant  (a tenant who was living at 179E93 when Gofman bought the building) moves out, Gofman either files a false rent registration at DHCR (e.g., sometimes doubling the rent, sometimes tripling the rent, etc.) or, in other cases, Gofman simply stops registering the Regulated apartment with the DHCR all together.  Acc...