LEONARD GREENE: Scam scandal splits Harlems Abyssinian Baptist Church
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Yeiser admitted that he owed the Porters money, which he estimated to be around $40,000. Yeiser became extremely emotional at being confronted by his wrongdoing and began crying. "There are gangs who are pretending to be homeless and use the tent encampments to sell fentanyl and other drugs," LAPD senior lead officer Deon Joseph told The New York Post. "The cocaine and heroin epidemics were bad enough, but you mix that with fentanyl, there are now even more overdose deaths. It's probably the worst I've ever seen in over 20 years." As LAist reports, there are several reasons for the continuing crisis of homelessness in Los Angeles, and specifically on Skid Row. "We really need to normalize the fact, unfortunately, that we're living in a crisis," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said while renewing her administration's emergency declaration on homelessness.
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Among those backing Porter are members of Abyssinian’s deacon board, who say Yeiser confessed his sins to them during a meeting in 2019 with the church’s esteemed pastor, the Rev. Calvin Butts, who died in 2022. Bragg, the prosecutor, has been forced to watch from the sidelines because of his obvious conflict of interest. Not only is Bragg a church member, but he is also a Sunday school teacher whose students include the daughters of the accused deacon.
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A few of them have been sold with prices going as high as over $2 million dollars.
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Today, most of the houses have been restored but a few still remain unoccupied and boarded up.Many of the owners and renters take great pride in their summer gardens. They are as different as the people who tend them and range from traditional annuals and perennials to heavily manicured–or very much overgrown. The Astor Row Houses were designated a New York City Landmark in 1981 despite their decaying condition. The community came together to raise money and restore their facade, improve the plumbing, heating and the electrical. Together, several preservation groups, banks, foundations and the Abyssinian Development Corporation–along with a $1.7 million dollar donation by Brook Astor to the New York Landmark Conservancy–moved forward with this restoration. Even Ella Fitzgerald performed a benefit in 1992 at Radio City Music Hall to help raise money for the restoration.
She saved most of her venom for Tupac, who represented every black male who’d ever hurt her or let her down. Whether on a family outing, a romantic date or a social gathering, Row House offers the ideal setting to make your night complete. Yeiser has since denied that he made any confession to the deacons or to anyone else. He has maintained his innocence, and even sued the Porters and other church members for defamation. Enter the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, which stepped in when Bragg stepped aside. But prosecutors there quickly backed off, saying they didn’t have enough evidence and resources to pursue criminal charges of grand larceny, according to the New York Times.
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For starters, people are falling into homelessness at a fast rate. Though advocacy groups are able to place some people in permanent housing, they can't keep up with the inflow of new people who need help. This is due to the lack of affordable housing and skyrocketing rents in the city.
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Whether you're a newcomer or seasoned athlete, there's something for everyone. We know you'll love being immersed in our inclusive and extraordinary community of Row House crew members. Assante, the onetime revolutionary, had shriveled into a mean drunk who habitually cursed them out.
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The birth of what became Skid Row in Los Angeles, however, came even earlier. In 1876, Curbed Los Angeles reports that the city became the last stop of the transcontinental railroad. Transients, seasonal workers, and displaced Civil War veterans began to pour into the city, especially near the railroad stop.
Bragg is a member of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, where a deacon, Jerome Yeiser, is accused of posing as a contractor and scamming home-owning parishioners out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are no politics more brutal than church politics, and there is no politician who knows that better than Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Untapped New York unearths New York City’s secrets and hidden gems. Discover the city’s most unique and surprising places and events for the curious mind. Today, while Astor Row looks very much the same as it did when they were built, the surrounding area– particularly on Lenox Avenue–have sprouted coffee houses, a condominium, a new supermarket and even a gourmet mini-donut shop. There are one and two bedrooms, some modernized, some with original details like marble fireplace mantles.
At the same time, millions of extremely affordable apartments (under $600 a month) have disappeared from the housing supply. LAist reports that many of these buildings were condemned or demolished, or they were taken off the market. And while new, affordable housing is being built, it's being done at a slow rate, and developers often face restrictive zoning laws and "NIMBY" neighborhoods that do not want lower-income people living nearby. War veterans, drug addicts, and people who could no longer afford skyrocketing rents poured into the 54-block area in downtown Los Angeles, where many spent their nights in bedraggled tents on the streets. The city often tried to crack down on homelessness, but bringing more police or instituting stricter laws in Skid Row did little to help. As the Daily Beast reported in 2015, about 14.5 percent of homeless people in Los Angeles had "serious alcohol problems and a lifetime diagnosis of schizophrenia" at that point.
She didn’t cook regular meals and never lost an opportunity to let them know that their presence was a burden. Assante had agreed to house them, so Afeni sent the kids ahead of her until she could come up with some money for a ticket of her own. One day she got a call from Assante saying that the kids needed a new home. The boy who arrived in ‘the Jungle’ was a deep-thinking bohemian who understood the works of Shakespeare and had donned a leotard for his dance classes and acted in several school plays. June 1988 – Tupac’s family moved in Marin City, California, a residential area five miles north of San Francisco.
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