Any tenant who pays rent “should have his head examined”

December 25, 2025 / no comments

In 2017, Leon Goldenberg filed an eviction case against a tenant who had stopped paying rent. I can’t tell you how the case turned out. More than eight years later, it’s still going. The increasing difficulty of collecting rent is one of the things Goldenberg wishes he had foreseen a decade ago. As the owner and manager of more than 2,500 units, many of them rent-stabilized, he would have gotten out before things got this bad. Goldenberg has been buying multifamily buildings in New York City since 1983. He jokes that he now owns properties in every borough, plus Staten […]

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NYC’s top deals: Flatiron co-op trades between attorneys for $4M

December 25, 2025 / no comments

There were 131 transactions totaling $203 million recorded in New York City over the past 24 hours before 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24. 🏆 Residential: The top home sale recorded in New York City was in the Flatiron District. Heidi and Max Garfield, both attorneys, snapped up a co-op at 876 Broadway for $4 million. The seller was Andrew Weissmann, also an attorney who served as a lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel Office and is an MSNBC/NBC legal analyst. The two-bedroom pad has two and a half baths and went on the market in March for $4.6 […]

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