Assemblyman Colton (D – Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, and Dyker Heights) together with the help of the community and many community organizations, were able to uncover a number of disturbing evidence on the developer, the Sandhu Group, and its numerous subsidiaries. The same developer that the City Administration has made another contract and proposed a project to build a homeless shelter at 2147 Bath Avenue also known as 156 Bay 29^th Street in Brooklyn

“This developer is in the business of buying properties and building hotels where a building of a hotel makes no sense, except that it then rents its small rooms to the City, at outrageous rates, to house the homeless in cubicles that do not serve their best interests,” Colton stated.

 “We’ve also uncovered numerous building violations and fines in the construction on the properties which the Sandhu Group buys and then often uses a subsidiary company as the builder. For example, in Staten Island, one of the properties has 7 violations - $10,000 in fines; another one has 5 violations - $9,375 in fines, and another has 10 violations and $18,870 in fines; in the Bronx property has, 5 violations and $2,500 in fines; in Queen's, the property has 17 violations and $90,625 in fines; and another property in Brooklyn, has 10 violations and $10,000 in fines. The Sandhu Group developer is in debt to the city in over $140,000 in fines and number of violations, which raises a valid question WHY IS THE CITY CONTINUING TO DO BUSINESS WITH THIS DEVELOPER THAT HAS SUCH A HISTORY OF VIOLATIONS and FINES? Why in the world would the City Administration want to enter into more business deals with a developer who has such a record of construction violations and unpaid fines?” Colton questions.

 “Therefore, we are asking community residents to be extra vigilant and report any suspicious activities at 2147 Bath Avenue which is also known as 156 Bay 29 Street to my office at (718) 236 1598. You can also call 311 to report any questionable work that is done at those locations. By working together, we can stop the city Administration from making unneeded contracts with the greedy developers like Sandhu Group, and its numerous subsidiaries,” Colton added.