Restoration Plaza Accusing Non-Profit Tenant of Dodging Rent

While the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza attempts to evict Sonny Carson’s Committee to Honor Black Heroes for allegedly not paying rent, Councilman Charles Barron, D-East New York, has offered to mediate the issue, says Our Time Press.

“Sonny had an arrangement (with Restoration) and this should not be in court,” Barron told Our Time. “I will lend any influence, time and energy in working things out. They (CHBH) are a viable organization in our community and have done great work.”

According to court paper obtained by Our Time, the BSRC are kicking out the non-profit group because their lease expired in January, and are exercising their right to now renew.

The article states that CHBH’s CEO Ali Lamont says that the plaza is ignoring the group’s “grass roots outreach” to the community in favor of “a gated area for private corporations.”

Last week in court, Our Time says that Judge Wavny Toussaint issued a third continuance that would give the CHBH until April 23 to secure an attorney.

Bed-Stuy Councilman Al Vann refused to comment to the paper on the issue.