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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit - Eichner and his tricks (by Irene S.):

Hi. I am Michelle Wladich, co-producer, research librarian and assistant to the host of Eco-Logic, Ken Gale on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City. Eco-Logic is an environmental show. First of all, I want to say how sorry I am that this happened to you. It's awful. I was doing background research on Eichner for both a story on the air and for a public hearing testimony. That's when I stumbled onto this webpage. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions. Have you folks ever gotten any of the settlement money? I know that you have a second major suit after the A.G.'s settlement suit. Did anything come of that or are you still waiting for a verdict from that? How many lawsuits are in the works total, do any of you know? The terms of the A.G. lawsuit was that Eichner relinquish control over the timeshare. Has he by now or is he still hanging onto it? It sounds like he still has you in his grips. How is he controlling you? So my understanding of a timeshare is that you own a share of a property but for only a few weeks and depending on the timeshare, you can go to other locations within the system, correct? Can you please explain to me why Eichner is making it so hard for you to leave the timeshare? Do you own a mortgage with the timeshare? Back to what Eichner is doing in Brooklyn. Our beloved Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Crown Heights district is in danger of becoming extinct. The former literally and the latter as we know it. He plans to build two 38 story towers that will block the sun to just about the entire garden, weakening and killing everything in it. The towers will be 150 feet away from the 52 acre park. They have Japanese cherry tree festivals around the Japanese garden, spicy pepper festivals, lily ponds and bonsai trees hundreds of years old. Lots of rare plants too. The shadow would kill all of it. It will also cast a shadow on a recently renovated playground. It cost $900,000 to do that. Brooklyn is famous for its four story brownstones. A tower like that is REALLY out of place and the zoning as it is, is supposed to protect the garden from projects like this except, rules can be changed. This tower will make people lose their homes due to gentrification because of Eichner's Real Estate games. There was a public hearing scheduled with CB 9 to argue about the rezoning of the area so he can build higher and block the sun but an temporary injunction was made against the meeting because most area residents are too poor to own an internet connection and would not be able to attend the meeting. If Eichner kicks them out, where are they going to go? Things to do to stop Eichner and maybe help yourself and someone else at the same time if you wish. Keep looking at Brooklyn Botanic Garden's website, bbg.org. On the site there is a section called, "The fight for sunlight." They post the public hearings that are scheduled to prevent this debacle. If a hearing goes forward, you may attend on Zoom, Eastern Standard Time, to tell the board what Eichner did to you, and because of his corruption why granting him rezoning to build that thing would be a lousy idea. You might be able to confront him if he's there, but please focus on the the building. I wish I could give you your money back. Perhaps confronting him in a way that would take away his new toys, might make you feel a whole lot better. A rich man's nightmare is that someone would take away in part or all of what he owns. So, come and take. And you'd be helping someone else. Be aware that hearing dates change on a dime so keep watching the website up until the minute of the meeting. Thank you for your patience in reading such a long long post. We hope to have a podcast interview with BBG really soon and discuss the sunlight issue and the dirt file I have on Eichner.