Theresa Agovino

Award-winning writer, journalist and editor

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Lew Ranieri and the road to hell

On an unseasonably warm day in February 2009, Laurence Gluck proudly pointed to refurbished playgrounds and an updated security system outside the Riverton Houses, a rent-regulated Harlem housing complex he owned with a partner. Inside a renovated apartment, he showed off the granite countertops and sleek new appliances.His plan had been to use such improvements to help push up rents to market rates. In fact, according to his projections, more than half of Riverton's 1,300 units would command ma...

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