475 Kent Avenue — 475 Kent Ave, New York, NY 11211
Three and a half months after the city evacuated more than 200 tenants from a Kent Avenue building because of an illegal matzo factory in the basement, the first residents returned to their apartments on May 1 — and after 101-days of couch surfing, the... »
More than 100 people have now moved back to 475 Kent Avenue, the building that was cleared on a frigid night in January after the discovery of a basement matzo factory and a ton of fire code violations. It's unclear how many residents are coming back, ... »
This morning the Times reports that about 100 tenants of 475 Kent Avenue have been allowed to return to their loft spaces, despite the fact that the building still doesn't have a C of O for residential use. Although some... »
More than 100 residents are returning to a Brooklyn building closed after authorities discovered a clandestine matzo bakery with silos of potentially dangerous grain in the basement. The residents of the building on Kent Avenue in the Williamsburg sect... »
More than 100 artists have begun to return to their loft spaces in Brooklyn, about three months after the Fire Department cited their landlord for a flurry of code violations. »
Photo by davidfg's flickr. On January 20th, residents of 475 Kent in Williamsburg were evicted from their apartments, which were deemed illegal, after the Fire and Buildings Departments found multiple violations (including a matzo factory housed in the... »
The saga of 475 Kent Avenue drew to a close yesterday. Roughly 14 weeks after the landlord of the live-work loft building was found to be running an illegal matzo bakery in the basement, the FDNY lifted its Vacate... »
Back when residents of 475 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg were forced to flea the building because of massive fire code violations and an illegal matzo factory in the basement, it was one of the coldest nights in January. Since then, residents have been w... »
From the 475Kent.com blog: At 3pm the sprinklers passed the hydrostatic test mandated by DOB and FDNY. The vacate is lifted as of 4pm. Hooray! We are back thanks not only to the huge amount of work by building residents and owners but by city agencies ... »
Back on the night of January 20, we started getting emails about the forced evacuation of 475 Kent in Williamsburg as the building was cleared out by the FDNY for multiple fire code violations and an illegal matzo factory in the basement. Today, the pe... »
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