Notorious Upper East Side Slumlord Slavik Gofman Continues his Fraudulent Scheme to Unlawfully Deregulate Rent Stabilized & Rent Control Apartments in Broad Daylight
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...