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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Vigil and Press Conference Planned for Millbank Buildings; Rent Strike Anticipated

Tenants from 10 distressed and deteriorating Bronx buildings owned by Milbank Real Estate are coming together tonight to hold a prayer vigil and conduct a press conference at Our Lady of Angels Church in Kingsbridge Heights. 

The vigil, organized by the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, is designed to bring more attention to the worsening condition of the buildings and to put pressure on the city to intervene on tenants' behalf.

Milbank is in foreclosure on the properties and there is supposedly a mysterious buyer who wants to buy them, but they have not been identified. Tenants want the buyer to come forward with a rehabilitation plan or they say they may launch a rent strike.

Here's more on the situation.

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