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Come Out and Show your Support for the tenants of 693 Madison Street in #BedStuy, #Brooklyn who are under threat of eviction by their greedy landlord Isaac Hirsch of JIH Builders Group LLC (JIH).

Saturday, April 7th 1pm - 3pm 693 Madison Street Brooklyn, NY, 11221 https://www.facebook.com/events/155120841822559/

In 2017, Isaac Hirsch and his company JIH Builders Group begun a mass eviction campaign against the low-to-middle income rent-stabilized tenants at 693 Madison Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Many tenants were forced to leave, but several choose to stay and fight by forming a tenant association.

In the meantime, JIH Builders has used using various forms of harassment to punish and drive out the remaining tenants.

Tactics of harassment include: -Breaking into apartments, changing the locks and illegally locking out tenant leaders - In freezing temperatures going with hot water for over 4 days -Refusing to take rent and then fraudulently taking tenants to court for non-payment -Round the clock non-stop construction on vacant apartments - Industrial paint being used with fumes so toxic that an ambulance had to be called for a grandmother and two children - Putting a combination lock on the door to the basement, so tenants are unable to check meter readings. As a result, the gas and electric bills are higher than average - After a JIH Builders worker came to fix the broken roof door, the roof alarm has been continuously blaring day and night

Ways you can support the 693 Madison Street Tenant Association:

1. Contact Isaac Hirsch - tell him tenant harassment is a crime and stop the mass evictions at 693 Madison Street

Isaac Hirsch President and CEO JIH Builders Group LLC 389 Willoughby Ave. Suite #207 Brooklyn NY 11205 P. 718-522-2750 Ext. 101 F. 866-200-8530 C. 347-489-5479 E. [email protected] www.jihbuilders.com

2. Sign & circulate the petition to demand Isaac Hirsch & JIH Builders Stop the Evictions and Harassment of The Tenants of 693 Madison Street https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/105/427/784

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3. Spread the word & Come out to the Community Action on April 7th at 1pm at 693 Madison Street https://www.facebook.com/events/155120841822559/

Meet Jane Ledesma, 693 Madison St Tenants Association https://youtu.be/ZZEw_Dw7zTQ Video shot and Edited by Nadeem Salaam for the Equality for Flatbush Video Strike Force

#MYNYCLandlord #NoEvictionZone #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack #JIHBuilders #693MadisonStreet #TenantsFightBack

We want to get to 400 + signers by March 2nd !  Please sign  & circulate the petition to demand Isaac Hirsch & JIH Builders Stop the Evictions and Harassment of The Tenants of 693 Madison Street. 

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/105/427/784/

For more on the struggle: See Equality for Flatbush's New Video: Support the 693 Madison Street Tenant Assoc against JIH Builders Group LLC (JIH): https://youtu.be/VOlNEMYfURg

Video shot and Edited by Nadeem Salaam of Elev Trax @elevtrtrax

BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification is a Brooklyn-wide project of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org

1/15 Action Alert in the Sprit of MLK - Tell Isaac Hirsch to stop the evictions &  harassment of Bed-stuy Tenants

VIDEOS from  693 Madison Tenant Leader Jane Ledesma,

https://www.facebook.com/jane.ledesma.16/videos/10215036919619945/

Here we have men installing cameras right at people’s doors. We have not been notified about this work. What is the purpose of putting a camera right at tenants’ front doors?! We are rent stabilized tenants and this is yet another form of TENANT HARASSMENT.  

​H​ere are fumes and dust filling the hallways and entering our apartments. This is detrimental to our health. I have asthma and can’t even escape this inside of my own home, where I’m supposed to be “safe.” There are small children under the age of 2 living in this building. They are doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to protect us.

https://www.facebook.com/jane.ledesma.16/videos/10215037220987479/

https://www.facebook.com/jane.ledesma.16/videos/10215037221427490/

​​The 693 Madison St Tenants  Assoc want people to : ​

​1. ​Flood Isaac Hirsch at JIH Builders with calls​/email​​: ​347-489-5479​  &

[email protected]​ : ​

​Stop the racist, sexist harassment of the majority women of color tenants living at 693 Madison Street.  ​

2.  Report JIH Builders to 311

​for toxic fumes, construction, non notification of tenants of survelliance cameras ​

& 3. Sign/ Circulate the petition calling for an end to the tenant harassmernt &  mass evictions at 693 Madison Street:

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/105/427/784/

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#MYNYCLandlord #NoEvictionZone #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack #JIHBuilders #693MadisonStreet #TenantsFightBack

Video shot and Edited by Nadeem Salaam for the Equality for Flatbush Video Strike Force

BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification is a Brooklyn-wide project of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org