Brooklyn, NY - Police Shutter Prince Lefferts Hotel

Brooklyn, NY - NYPD of the 88th Pct shut down Clinton Hill's Prince Lefferts Hotel. An officer parked near the hotel said police had been monitoring the area 24 hours a day since the court order to close the building, which stands at 127 Lefferts Place.

Police had been trying to get permission from the Brooklyn Supreme Court to close the hotel under the nuisance abatement law, now action came as part of an initiative within the 88th precinct, to eliminate quality-of-life crimes in Clinton Hill.

The owner of the building, Moses Fried, a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor who has worked as a real estate manager in Brooklyn for decades, said that he never sanctioned any quality-of-life crimes there. Mr. Fried said. I'm a Jewish religious man. I would never permit to run something like this there.