Help Broadhollow Gardens Fight for Justice

In 2020 I purchased my first Apartment at Broadhollow Gardens. I was excited to finally take the next chapter in my life. Unfortunately despite the progress, we as a community would soon find out there was a lot more to the living situation here.

As time went on, we noticed our building reaching a deplorable state of being. Hanging wires, inoperable cameras, filth and garbage. Homeless have acosted some of our residents and continue to be a blight on our bus stop. Drugs were in the presence of children whom live here. The Boiler has broken down more times than we can count, and the Board simply applys "patch jobs" without rectifying the main cause.

When we finally had enough, about 25 Shareholders in the Co-op (Including myself) banded together to confront the Board and Management company. A "Company" by the name of "Broadhollow BJR LLC" has been a majority shareholder here for about 30 years, masquerading as a false Sponsor and Holder of Unsold Shares. What this means is due to his high percentage of ownership and title, he can simply appoint 2 directors to the board of his choosing, and vote all his remaining shares to elect a 3rd. Effectively destroying any democratic integrity to our Board meetings and decisions 3-2 almost every instance. His title also allows him to circumvent the Board in applying subletees and tenants to his Units without approval. To this day we have had endless conflicts with his Tenants destroying the quality of life here. A large problem with his percentage of ownership means that Banks will view this as a risk to anyone applying for a loan, resulting in a denial 100% of the time. Any time there is something wrong with his Tenants or a general problem, it goes completely ignored by Management and Board. During Multiple elections, the Board and LLC scoffed and laughed at us as we were completely outnumbered. Sometimes going so far to discourage any legal efforts by spreading mis-information to the residents via notices.

When confronted about the potential of legal intervention, the board (without vote) hired an external lawyer on the Corporation's dime to effectively decide whether this LLC was a Sponsor or Not. Unsurprisingly, the Lawyer ruled in his favor. When this company failed to prove his Title and Sponsorship with valid evidence, we sought the help of Taylor, Eldridge, and Endres P.C. This law group specializes in dealing with Cooperative conflicts such as this. It is our legal opinion that this person is not a Holder of Unsold Shares. Rather nothing more than a Majority shareholder with too much power. The original Sponsor to our building back in 1997 defaulted on their payments, thus the Bank purchased our building in a Foreclosure sale. This should have rendered the shares from "Unsold" to standard shares. However this did not stop the LLC from claiming this title wrongfully, and abusing their power to the detriment of our lives and building.

Our solution to this matter was to File an Article 78 with the Supreme court. This allows us to rule on a single matter; being whether or not this man is a holder of unsold shares or not. This has been an ongoing legal battle between attorney correspondence, succuming to the respondents delaying the trial at every attempt, and waiting for a decision alltogether by the court. Unfortunately what started as a $5000 court case, quickly developed into a $25,000 case. Being most of the residents here are low-income, we have been having an exceptionally difficult time in making payments. While we humbly respect the hard work and understanding from our Legal team with this issue, we need a bit of a helping hand to pay the legal fees piling up.

Currently we have banded together to pay the initial retainer. And I have already paid about $15,000 from my own pocket. As a prior Board Member, I deeply care about the quality of life here, and all of our wonderful shareholders whom I am trying to stand up for. We have experienced freezing out of meetings, lack of minutes taken, Board members and Management company completely ignoring our problems. Vermin, Garbage, Deteriorating buildings and amenities. Some have received veiled threats from the Board, and incorrect information mailed to the shareholders without prior authorization. While already long-winded, this is not even scratching the surface of the horrible living conditions supplied to us by Tenere Management and the Board. The Management company also Operates under multiple aliases and carries a terrible reputation.

Initially We requested 3 motions for the Article 78.

1. Annull the decision to name Broadhollow BJR LLC as a Holder of Unsold Shares/Sponsor.

2. A new election is to take place with new standards and a true democratic integrity to meetings/voting.

3. Reimbursement of Attorney Fees.

Sadly the Judge has ruled out any attempt to recover attorney fees. However all hope is not lost, as the Respondents (defendants) argument lacks any merit whatsoever by word of the Court. We seem to have the upper hand in our legal argument and are praying for a ruling in our favor.

Below are some of the Instances we face and the legal documents detailing charges. Should you wish to follow the court case and obtain more detail, please look up Index Number 600299/2024

Last year my neighbor smelled a pungent odor that smelled of gas next to his Unit. Being a Board Member that cared for the safety of our residents, I alerted our Property Manager; Peter August. A Self-Proclained Ex-Fire Fighter, Peter simply took a single "Whiff" of the gas, smelt nothing, and walked away. I alerted National Grid of the issue. The found a leak, and eventually fixed it. The board erroneously stated I "Broke into" the boiler room, and shifted the responsibility of finding contractors unto me. Which is the Property Manager's job.

Opposing Attorney:

Our Attorney:

Amount of shares owned by a single Entity.

LLC Illegally sitting on Board despite By-Laws

LLC Tenants out of Control, no corrective action from Board/Mgmt

Prior Superintendent employing 13-year olds to work on premesis.

The large amount of correspondence and delays.

Board freezing members out of meetings.

Board completely ignoring legal letters from us.

Pictures of some of the conditions in our building.

Excuse the print, these were taken and edited by other Shareholders.

We made local Amityville Headlines about our Co-Op Condition and lack of Attorney General's help.

2022 Board meeting when we confronted them on not having any financial packets since 2020. All they did was smile and laugh, or stare blankly into space when asked questions. Nobody voted for those 4 people on the table except for the "Sponsor". The two members we voted for are sitting with the shareholders; being myself and another.