Barth and Rosa Bazyluk talk about their time living at the Austin Nichols house, a rent-stabilized apartment building in Brooklyn, while sitting outside their home July 5, 2018, in West Harrison, N.Y. Despite seven years in the apartment, the Bazyluks moved to West Harrison after the building was bought by the Kushner Cos. An Associated Press investigation into one of the Kushner Cos.’ largest residential buildings in New York City reveals what some residents say was a campaign that used noisy construction to push rent-stabilized tenants out and bring high-paying condo buyers in. More than a dozen tenants told the AP that they were subjected to relentless banging, drilling, dust and rats. “They won, they succeeded,” says Barth Bazyluk, who left apartment C606 with his wife and baby daughter in December. “You have to be ignorant or dumb to think this wasn’t deliberate.” (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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