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February 1, 2012
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Landlord values security — at home
The front door to Morris Rubin’s house in Cedarhurst, N.Y. is about as secure as an entrance to a mid-sized suburban home can get. There’s an intercom with a video camera and instead of a peephole, a device with several small cameras pointed at different angles. Mr. Rubin’s front door stands in stark contrast to the one at the entrance to the Majestic, at 3660 Waldo Ave., which Mr. Rubin owns. There, the lock is often broken, according to both residents and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, leaving the door as an inconsequential barrier to intruders. “He’s rude to the point of harassment,” one former resident said, adding that when he complained about the lack of heat and hot water, Mr. Rubin lectured him. A current resident recently described an incident in which a window was broken during a fight he had with the building’s superintendent. During the discord — which began after the man said he confronted the super about a drug dealer who approached his daughter in the building and offered her crack cocaine — a hallway window was broken. “When the landlord called me about the window, he didn’t care about the drug dealer who was in the hallway,” the man, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, said. “He cared about getting the window fixed.” A former superintendent put it in simpler terms during an August interview. For his part, Mr. Rubin often blames the tenants or says the building’s problems don’t exist.
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Rubin is a lying sack of crap and should be in jail for allowing his building to be used as a drug den and brothel, but I don't quite understand the point of this story. What does his personal life have to do with anything? If he wants a million cameras at his home, and have an armed contingent of guards surround it, or whatever he wants to do with his private property that affects only himself and his family, why is this the business of the Riverdale PRess or its readers?
Yes, I realize that the paper was trying to show the dichotomy of what he does personally and professionally, but I thought that in America, what one does with his private property is his own business as long as it doesn't hurt others.
Now, how he conducts his affairs at the Majestic is another story since it affects the residents and surrounding neighborhood, but come on Riverdale PRess, stick with the real issues and don't try to make a point this way. There's plenty you can get on this scumbag without reporting on his personal life and listing the area where he lives.
If anyone would like to see the complaints against Mr. Rubin concerning the Majestic, he or she should visit HPD's online portal. This is an extremely important resource for all tenants.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr/violation.shtml
The link at the bottom of the page will bring you to a page which allows you to input any NYC address to see the violations for that building. If you are thinking about moving, this is an incredibly useful tool to determine if a building is in good repair and if tenant requests are responded to in a timely fashion.
You will note that despite Mr. Rubin's protests about his poorly behaved tenants, there are a large number of complaints and violations that have nothing to do with the tenants behavior: lead paint abatement, lack of heat and hot water, among others.