NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on tenants in a Kushner Cos. building accusing the family firm of harassing them so they would leave (all times local):
12:05 p.m.
The Kushner Cos. is being sued by renters at one of its largest residential buildings in New York for allegedly using construction crews to make living conditions so intolerable they would leave, freeing up apartments to be sold as high-priced luxury condos.
Twenty tenants and former tenants of a converted Brooklyn warehouse say the family firm once run by presidential adviser Jared Kushner also exposed them to dust containing lead and the carcinogen crystalline silica. They are asking for $10 million in damages.
A news conference announcing the suit filed late Sunday in New York State Supreme Court is planned for later Monday with comments from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
The Kushner Cos. had no immediate response, but told The Associated Press earlier Sunday that it didn't harass any tenants.
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More than a dozen current and former residents of a New York apartment building owned by presidential adviser Jared Kushner's family real estate firm tell The Associated Press they believe they were targeted in a campaign to push them out of their rent-stabilized homes.
The Kushner Cos. bought the converted warehouse apartment building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and turned the units into luxury condos selling for an average $1.2 million.
Those who lived there cite all-day hammering and drilling and other problems they say were aimed at getting them to leave. They also complain of high increases in rent, dust from construction, rats crawling through holes, and workers with passkeys barging in unannounced.
Kushner Cos. tells the AP it didn't harass any tenants to get them out.
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