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NOT SELLING: Assemblywoman Diana Richardson is offering “House Not for Sale” signs to property-owning constituents in her district spanning
Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Photo by Colin Mixson
BY COLIN MIXSON
It’s not a buyer’s market!
A state pol is handing out
signs to her Crown Heights
and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens
constituents that read
“This House is Not for Sale,”
in response to outlandish solicitations
made by would-be
home buyers. The wannabe
homeowners sometimes stake
out private properties with
literal bags of cash hoping to
convince owners to sell, according
to the legislator.
“They come with checks
already written in their
name, and if not checks
written in their name, they
come with cash trying to
buy their house,” said Democratic
Assemblywoman
Diana Richardson.
Richardson, who printed
an initial run of 1,000 “Not for
Sale” signs, said she’s down to
the last 100.
But she has a second run
of the signs in the works for
those locals still inundating
her offi ce with complaints
about unwanted offers to buy
their homes, she said.
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The requests often come in
the form of letters and phone
calls from real-estate agents
and developers, many of
whom typically take the word
“no” as an invitation to redouble
their efforts, according to
a Rutland Road resident.
“They never take no for an
answer,” said Vibeke Alstad
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BY COLIN MIXSON
Postal workers continue to use
residential Park Slope streets
as parking lots for both their
work and personal vehicles,
according to residents, who
said the federal employees use
placards to park illegally even
after an agency rep told this
newspaper that those placards
would be revoked.
Last July , United States
Postal Service rep Xavier Hernandez
said placards would be
revoked from employees at the
Ninth Street Post Offi ce, after
a report by this newspaper exposed
workers’ penchant for
using them to bogart parking
in the area.
But on Jan. 29, this reporter
saw a non-agency vehicle
bearing a placard parked at a
metered spot on Ninth Street,
before spotting another nonagency
vehicle equipped with
a Postal Service–issued placard
blocking the driveway
of an Eighth Street home between
Fourth and Fifth Avenues,
behind the Ninth Street
Post Offi ce.
And that block of Eighth
Street is overrun by vehicles
Continued on page 28
WARNING SIGNS
USPS staff
still using
placards to
hog parking
Pol provides constituents with ‘House Not for Sale’ placards
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