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<blockquote>Exactly, I don't see the correlation with this situation and what Sween was talking about (although, that was some kowledge dropped). Why didn't they at least give them an option of letting go of one of the units? Or did they have 2 side-by-side units and knock the wall down to make it into one big apartment? Still doesn't seem like they should have just thrown them out. I wonder if they had any prior warning. Of course, with a 3 minute video clip with little to no explanation, we have no back story. Were they given any options? I'm not trying to say the family is at fault by any means, I'm just saying, who knows what went down? I'd be interested to know the rest of the story. I hope they were able to find a home in less than the "several months" that it takes an evicted family to find, on average. </blockquote> As I mentioned, I was just presenting a little backstory as to why NYC was cracking down on building codes in 2005. It certainly does not look like the subdivided style of apartment I was referring to (working my job I've seen in Hempstead apartments with 3 bedrooms but 12-16 places to sleep), that's for sure. No one on here knows any of the backstory to that eviction though. First off, the building code was broken and the grounds for eviction were legal. Fucked up? Yes. BUT, how did the building department find out about the illegal apartment? Did neighbors rat? Did the landlord? Y'all know that a lot of buildings in NYC are owned by absentee landlords that outsource building management and havent visited the property in YEARS right? I'd guess someone in the building didn't want the family there anymore for some reason and dropped a dime about the illegal situation. Someone else could have gotten evicted for something and said "fuck it, if I'm going so are they". Who knows, you'll never know how that shit went down.

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