Last week, an EVG reader noted a lone flyer on East 11th Street at Avenue B warning potential residents of living in a property owned by Steve Croman, aka 9300 Realty, named one of the top-10 worst landlords in NYC last year by The Village Voice.
This past weekend another flyer arrived … affixed to a city trash can on Second Avenue and East Fifth Street…
In this flyer, Croman is pictured with his wife Harriet … and the flyer's creator points out that Croman "is now the subject of an investigation into potentially illegal tactics used to force rent-stabilized tenants out of their apartments, the Daily News has learned."
That Daily News piece is from last July.
Photos by Derek Berg
The only problem with that flyer is that it should have been posted inside the garbage can. Otherwise it's perfect.
ReplyDeleteAmen Giovanni, sewer rats Steve and Harriet Croman are garbage - they are the scum of the earth.
DeleteI agree Giovanni
DeleteOld school, biblical level greed and malice
DeleteWhy? What did the wife do? Boy, people are full of vim and vigor until they get a buyout from Croman, what does that say about his detractors and what does that say about him?
ReplyDeleteLeona Helmsley and Imelda Marcos combined pale in comparison to Harriet Croman.
DeleteThere are different anti-Croman fliers posted outside the L train SE staircase.
ReplyDeleteThey specifically warn people to not deal with 9300 Realty. No picture, just text. Nice official looking design.
We saw them all over Harlem and the upper East Side.
DeleteThose flyers should be posted everywhere there are colleges and foreign students to warn them about Croman and to not rent from 9300 Realty. Place them inside the buildings and store's bulletin boards. Place ads in the papers.
DeleteCroman's buildings are full of vulnerable young out of state or foreign students (Mostly NYU students) who do not know their rights. They pay market rate rents to be abused by the Cromans and their goon supers, gutter property managers and lawless lawyers.
Once the Cromans get their greedy hands on your money are doomed to living in a hell hole. Save yourself and never rent a Croman Realty or 9300 apartment, otherwise you'll be sorry.
We saw some posted in the bathrooms at NYU.and in the lobbies of the NYU buildings.
DeleteANON 4:50 pm Pat yourself on the back buddy & toot your horn
DeleteNo Croman property ever went up in smoke. He purchases old buildings in need of repairs, fixes them up, pays tenants large sums of money as buy outs, and brings in wealthy tenants who are able to pay higher prices for local eateries and local stores. I'm just saying in another place he would be considered a hero.
ReplyDeleteReply To Anon: " No Croman Property ever went up in smoke." Where have you been all these years & what have you been smoking?
DeleteHere's a highlight of few Fires in Croman's buildings, and there are more. You can google to read more about these fires.
Steve and Harriet Croman's buildings have been plagued by fires. In 2003 at 340 East 18th Street there was a horrendous fire in a brand new renovated apartment that was deemed an electrical fire. It was a five alarm five that took over a hundred firemen to put the blaze out.
A young NYU student Isabelle Heine was badly burned over 80 % of her body. There were also other injuries. It was a horrible fire.
Croman uses unqualified workers to do reckless renovations and shoddy, substandard work. It was in all the papers & on all the TV Stations. To read about it here is an article from the New York Times on this 2003 fire. Go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/nyregion/electrical-fire-on-east-side-injures-eight-one-critically.html
and.... there are many more fires in Croman's buildings: Here is another highlight from the Croman Fire Arsonal - The Fire in a Croman building at 127 East 7th Street. Attached is a link to the NY Post article. The tenants took Croman to landlord tenant court and won their court case. To celebrate their victory over Croman they went out to dinner but upon their return - they no longer had a home because they were burned out because someone arsoned and ransacked their apartment, their beautiful dog died in this fire and they lost everything they owned. This was deemed arson by the Fire Marshalls. To read about this one go to the following link.
http://nypost.com/2011/07/25/east-village-couple-returns-home-from-legal-victory-over-landlord-to-find-dog-killed-in-mysterious-arson/
I guess that's why they call it - " The Landlord's Lightening " Criminals absolute Criminals - just ask any Croman tenant.
Croman doesn't fix up his buildings, he harasses tenants out of their homes, usually the most vulnerable, the elderly and those who do not speak english. His buildings have the cheapest renovations - if it looks like he put in wainscotting - look again, it's only the cheapest sheetrock with moldings put on it to give the appearance of wood. The Cromans and their property managers have cheated and tricked elderly tenants out of their homes for practically nothing or he uses the courts and commences bogus court proceedings to get them out. Croman's apartments are mostly rented out by college students who live 4 to 5 people to an apartment, and it becomes transient housing because there's a constant turnover of tenants moving in and out because barely anyone stays after a year..Because without any rent protections for market rate tenants, the Croman's raise their rents so high they can no longer afford to live there. Then the Croman's don't return their security deposits. The local eateries and mom & pop stores are driven out by Croman once he buys the building - there goes the store on the ground floor. Oh and did I mention that he doesn't give heat and hot water, there's hardly any supers living on the premises as required by law, There are nasty property managers to deal with and repairs that never get done, Leaks, ceiling collapses, appliances that don't work, the litany goes on and on. Croman a hero? Only those sick people who could adore Hitler, or Sadam Hussien or join Isis could consider Croman a hero. The Cromans are the worst, the very worst landlords this city has ever seen.
DeleteBe considered a "hero"? In what other place might that be, Mr.Croman - I mean, Anon. 3:23?
ReplyDeleteYes, Steve and Harriet Croman would be considered " Heros " in Hell.
DeleteWhere there's a nice warm place awaiting them.
Anon 6:09pm the 2003 fire was started as stated in the article you linked to "fire was caused by a spark from a power strip".
ReplyDeleteIn the 2011 article you linked to it states "to find an intruder had burglarized their pad and set fire to a closet" ... "arrested career criminal Jorge Molina on Feb. 15 after he made an illegal transaction with a credit card stolen from the apartment, sources said."
I saw flyers in Harlem. I even saw a few flyers taped up inside of subway cars.
ReplyDeleteHey real estate trolls: you crazy; anon 7:27, all too true. Seen it. Been there. If you ever lived in a Croman building or any of the other voracious capitalist developer bully buildings, such as Icon Realty or Trump's son-in-law, Ivanka's husband Kushner, you would not defend these people at all.
ReplyDeleteThey recently bought the apartment building I live in. Since then, their employee has been calling me monthly trying to leave. Ironically, the building had a fire on the roof literally months after they purchased the building. I have lived here for years; nothing has ever happened here until it was purchased by them.
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