This was the line to get into 141 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, premises of Brooklyn Housing Court. You can win your case, yet you still make the list, still depart wearing the taint of housing court. Brooklyn Housing Court isn’t a courthouse, but a repurposed commercial building with inadequate space, balky elevators, grimy bathrooms and no privacy. They battle for their homes largely unrepresented by lawyers, making housing court the most lopsided court in the system. There were nearly 69,000 filings last year in Brooklyn Housing Court, a vast majority of them eviction actions.

Source: New York Times May 20, 2018 15:25 UTC