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We’re seeking a Temporary Restraining Order to stop the forced relocations of NYCHA tenants until our Article 78 Petition is adjudicated

An Order to Show Cause with TRO in a Civil Action was filed today.

Petitioners sought emergency relief from the actual and imminent harm stemming from the forced relocations of public housing residents at two public housing developments, Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea.

Before we showed up to file the Order to Show Cause, attorneys for Essence-Related filed a letter with our Judge, threatening to submit a motion of their own to oppose our TRO.

Attorneys for Essence-Related, the front-puppet and the puppet master, respectively, submitted a letter to the Judge in our case, notifying the Court that the RAD/PACT Landlord planned to file a motion to intervene in our updated Article 78 Petition and to oppose our TRO.

For its part, NYCHA filed a letter with the Court in opposition to our Order to Show Cause.

We sought emergency relief from the Courts after NYCHA and Essence-Related began forced relocations of senior citizens to further its plan to empty out and demolish two public housing apartment buildings before the ULURP and RFP questions could be decided in our case.