The editors of the SHADOW wish to acknowledge the following errata in our article
“Landlord Greed versus Affordable Housing—SRO Tenants under Seige on Ninth Street.”
by A. Kronstadt. We hope that the following clarifications and corrections will
remedy any inaccuracies.

Comments refer to paragraph 10 of the article beginning at the bottom of column 2.

1. We misspelled the name “Anna Baker-Heans” as “Anna Baker-Hearns” twice in this article—our apologies.

2. Anna Baker-Heans' correct title is Tenant Organizer at Cooper Square Committee.

3. The quote “The judge essentially ruled that Geylik had harassed the tenants into
letting him have the CONH (Certificate of No Harassment) does not accurately sum up
the ruling in the administrative hearing. More precisely, Anna Baker-Heans told the
SHADOW that the landlord encouraged tenants to support him in getting a CONH from
HPD, telling them that it [the CONH] would enable him to restore the shared water
closets, shower and kitchen that he had removed, and then after securing the CONH
did not restore those shared facilities.

4. The quote “In order to get the CONH back, all the landlord needs to do is to
rebuild the bathrooms and kitchen, since the judge ruled that their removal was
what constituted the harassment” is not correct. The landlord cannot get the
existing CONH back, but can apply for a new CONH in 3 years. 

A. Kronstadt 

The following is the correct text of paragraph 10 of the article (both the print version and online PDF)

With the help of neighborhood housing activists from the Cooper Square Committee
and Take Root Justice, the residents have fought back in court. After a protracted
adminstrative trial at the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH), the
Certificate of  No Harassment that had been previously granted to Geylik with the
cooperation of the residents was rescinded. On Feb. 20, 2026 the judge in the trial
ruled that HPD had proven several counts of harassment, whereupon HPD revoked the
CONH on March 11. Anna Baker-Heans, a Tenant Organizer with the Cooper Square
Committee working with residents at 109 East 9th Street remarked that it is very
rare for a a CONH to be rescinded once granted. “We were not able to find a
precedent”, Baker-Heans told the SHADOW. The landlord can apply for a new CONH in
3 years. 

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