A Brooklyn man impersonated his deceased, 77-year-old mother — even
donning a red cardigan and lipstick — in an alleged attempt to receive
social security benefits and steal the Park Slope brownstone she once
owned, according to the district attorney’s office. Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes today announced a 47-count
indictment against 49-year-old Thomas Parkin and his friend Mhilton
Rimolo, 47, in connection with the elaborate scam. The two were charged with first-degree grand larceny, and if convicted,
may serve up to 25 years in prison, according to a spokesperson for the
DA’s office. They were also charged with conspiracy, forgery, perjury
and criminal impersonation in connection with a scam. They are being
arraigned this morning at Kings County Supreme Court. [more]
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Several new residential buildings are rising south of Park Slope, from
9th to 20th streets, between Fourth Avenue and Prospect Park. While
construction is ongoing in the area despite the downturn, the new
buildings have had to adapt to the economic climate by lowering prices,
offering incentives and, in some cases, going rental. At 500 Fourth
Avenue, at 12th Street, prices were adjusted by $100 to $150 a square foot
last year, and the developer is offering 10 percent off asking prices
for buyers who purchase a unit before the end of July. About 15 percent
of the 156 units have sold. At the six-unit condo at 245 16th Street,
none of the homes have sold since sales started in January. And at the
planned condo 639 Fourth Avenue, at 19th Street, the 44-unit building
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The Park Slope Civic Council is looking to triple the size of the Park
Slope historic district, already the largest historic district in the
borough. The proposed expansion would cover nearly all of the Park
Slope neighborhood, which is bound by Prospect Park West, Flatbush
Avenue, Fifth Avenue and 15th Street. The New York Methodist Hospital
was not included in the historic district proposal because the hospital
opposes landmark designation due to the possible need for future
development. Living in a historic district requires property owners to
obtain special permits from the Landmarks Preservation Commission if
they want to alter building facades.
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A State Supreme Court justice yesterday demanded that developer Jack
LoCicero not sell apartments in his newly completed building in Park
Slope, known as
the Armory Plaza. Owners of seven buildings near the building, at
Eighth Avenue and 15th Street, have been embroiled in a three-year
legal battle with the developer, saying the project has created
sinkholes and structural problems on the streets. The plaintiffs fear
that because the developer isn’t allowed to sell apartments, they won’t
be able to collect money if they win the case. The developer
claims the problems with its neighbors’ aging buildings existed long
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They may be pricey but the Upper East Side and
West Side
out, according to a Post analysis of data from the Real Estate Board of New
York’s Web site. Since Jan. 1, user searches on ResidentialNYC.com show that
the next three most popular areas are the
and
Brooklyn’s most popular were Park Slope, Bay Ridge, Bedford-Stuyvesant,
and
Hills,
Douglaston/Little Neck. The most popular in the
were Spuyten Duyvil, Throgs Neck, Riverdale, Parkchester and Jerome Park. Staten
Island’s most popular neighborhoods were Tottenville, Great Kills, Rossville,
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From the March issue: Why is Pottery Barn moving to
but not to
Why does Park Slope have numerous Starbucks while there are none in nearby
And why are store clerks in
suddenly asking to know your zip code? The one word answer is psychographics,
an art/science that uses the growing mountain of consumer data now available to
help retailers, and marketers in particular, make decisions about real estate. Analysts
use psychographic information to define consumer categories, which are often
given colorful names such as “Shotguns and Pickups” and “Blue
Blood Estates.” The results are used to decide where to locate stores,
restaurants, banks and even medical facilities.
