South Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights have a serious problem with illegal conversionslandlords chopping up single family homes to make multiple unitsand local officials want the city to crack down on them in the same way they are cracking down on illegal hotels. The city uses a software called Palantir to track data on illegally shared rooms, but right now, it's only used by the Office of Special Enforcement for "quality of life" issues, not by the Department of Buildings. [BK Daily; previously]
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