The owner of a beleaguered low-income apartment complex on Thurston Road has agreed not to force out any residents for now. Residents and housing activists have been vocal about poor conditions at 447 Thurston Road and have been pushing for Thurston Road Realty to make major repairs.
Peter Hungerford
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City, landlord to return to court next week
The City of Rochester’s civil lawsuit against landlord Peter Hungerford’s Thurston Road Realty is proceeding. The proceeding centers around two of Hungerford’s apartment complexes in the city, one at 447 Thurston Road and another at 967 Chili Avenue. The city argues that numerous code violations at the properties have gone unaddressed. It’s asking the court […]
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Rochester plans suit against landlord Peter Hungerford
The city plans to to sue Peter Hungerford in City Court over outstanding code violations at several apartment buildings he owns.
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City threatens to take control of ignored apartment buildings
The City of Rochester has threatened to put several of an absentee landlord’s buildings into receivership if past-due violations aren’t fixed
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Activists: Thurston Road problems show the need for a housing court
The ceiling in John Lindsey’s bathroom collapsed several weeks ago and hasn’t yet been repaired. One floor below and on the other side of the 19th Ward apartment building, Mary Brown has thick mold growing in her bathroom, and the water is backing up in her bathtub and sink – a common problem around the […]
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Tenants of Thurston Road apartment building plan rent strike
Tenants at 447 Thurston Road, an apartment building in the 19th Ward, held a press conference Tuesday to protest the building’s terrible, unaddressed conditions, and to announce a rent strike beginning in March. The speakers also praised Assemblymember Harry Bronson’s introduction of a Rochester Housing Court Act into the New York State Legislature. The City […]
