From left: 338 Berry Street and a rendering of the building’s solar paneling

The owner of the former Tung Fa Noodle Factory in Williamsburg, which most recently housed a group of artists who were evicted last year after losing a long legal battle, is aiming to convert the property to apartments, according to BuzzBuzzHome. [more]

338 Berry Street

A group of Williamsburg artists who were appealing eviction from the live-work loft at 338 Berry Street lost their 16 month-long legal battle yesterday, the Brooklyn Paper reported. There are seven remaining tenants in the building, between South 4th and South 5th streets, and they claimed that a 2010 revision of the Loft Law, which extended rights and rental protections to residents living in illegally-converted industrial lofts, should have included their homes. [more]

338 Berry Street

Loft residents in Williamsburg, who claim to be the some of the original gentrifiers of the neighborhood, are fighting their eviction from a mostly vacant building, citing a new law that allows lofts to be rent-regulated. “The people like us who made Williamsburg cool are now the ones being given the boot,” resident David Opdyke who moved into the building in question, at 338 Berry Street, in the 1990s, told the Post. [more]

A group of tenants at Williamsburg’s 338 Berry Street are claiming they’ve been harassed by their landlord after filing for protection under the state’s loft law, the Brooklyn Paper reported. Under the law, residential tenants who’ve been in the illegally-converted industrial building for at least a year can remain there — provided that the landlord doesn’t protest. But in this case, landlord Mona Gora-Friedman, who is planning a renovation of the 16-unit building she bought for $12 million in 2005, has taken her tenants to court to demand their eviction. They’ve filed a countermotion, which is slated to be heard Feb. 9, and are claiming Gora-Friedman cut off one tenant’s water and sent everyone threatening letters demanding that they remove existing plumbing work and partition walls. … [more]