{"id":334328,"date":"2026-09-01T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334328\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:15:18","slug":"jail-didnt-stop-notorious-landlord-steve-croman-can-mamdanis-new-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334328\/","title":{"rendered":"Jail Didn\u2019t Stop Notorious Landlord Steve Croman. Can Mamdani\u2019s New Plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-grad-6-gradient-background has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Jail+Time+Didn%26%238217%3Bt+Stop+The+%26%238216%3BPoster+Child%26%238217%3B+of+Bad+Landlords.+What+Will%3F&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitylimits.org%2Fjail-time-didnt-stop-the-poster-child-of-bad-landlords-what-will%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcitylimits.org%2Fjail-time-didnt-stop-the-poster-child-of-bad-landlords-what-will%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/jail-steve-croman-bad-landlord-mamdani\/mailto:mailforawais@gmail.com?subject=Jail%20Time%20Didn%E2%80%99t%20Stop%20The%20%E2%80%98Poster%20Child%E2%80%99%20of%20Bad%20Landlords.%20What%20Will?&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fcitylimits.org%2Fjail-time-didnt-stop-the-poster-child-of-bad-landlords-what-will%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/jail-time-didnt-stop-the-poster-child-of-bad-landlords-what-will\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tenants in buildings owned by one of New York\u2019s most notorious landlords have suffered for years. Could Zohran Mamdani\u2019s new housing plan, which pledges to beef up the city\u2019s capacity to go after negligent owners, make a difference?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260716CityLimitsChaffee-7045-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"Croman tenants\" class=\"wp-image-156663\" style=\"width:1024px;height:auto\"\/>Cynthia Chaffee and her husband Peter in their home on E18th Street in Manhattan. The pair are flanked by boxes containing records from their decades-long fight against landlord Steve Croman. Photo: Adi Talwar\/City Limits<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cynthia Chaffee has been fighting her landlord, Steven Croman, for decades. Her rent-stabilized Gramercy apartment is overrun with stacks of boxes and cabinets holding thousands of files relating to her work as founder of the Stop Croman Coalition, a tenant organization that she has helmed for nearly 20 years, dedicated to chronicling his alleged misdeeds.<\/p>\n<p>Success! 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