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GREENBURGH, N.Y. – A former Greenburgh councilwoman is in danger of losing her Habitat for Humanity home after not making payments on the building in over year, according to court documents.
Sonja Brown, 44, must pay back more than $46,000 on her 77 Riverdale Ave. home or risk losing it.
The white house, notorious for a 1996 drug raid that turned up 51 vials of crack cocaine and resulted in 16 arrests, was Habitat for Humanity’s first renovation project in Greenburgh.
Brown moved into the home in November of 2000 with her two daughters after volunteering more than 500 hours of labor to the not-for-profit group. Now, Habitat charges that Brown has failed to make her monthly mortgage payment of $354.65, according to documents filed by the not-for-profit group in state Supreme Court earlier this month.
The community activist stepped down from the town board in December after serving a four-year term. Brown is the director and founder of Westchester RISE Inc., a group that says it “is dedicated to linking people with health and human services.”
Neither Brown nor Habitat for Humanity officials were immediately available for comment.
Comments (2)
In Greenburgh politics, you'll only last as long as Feiner wants you to. I would not be surprised if he's behind the eviction notices, negative publicity and hassles Ms. Brown is going through just to get even with her for standing up to him. Stay up to date by reading about the Town of Greenburgh at: abettergreenburgh.blogspot.com. They seem to have a pretty good handle about what goes on in Greenburgh and actually reports what is going on.
"The community activist (Brown) stepped down from the town board in December after serving a four-year term."
Words are important to me and they should be important, if not more so, to those who write them for a living.
Therefore: Ms. Brown did not "step down" which invokes the feeling of a voluntary resignation but, rather did not make it through the Fall Democratic Primary (for her re-election effort to appear on the Dems line in November) after opposition mounted a successful challenge to her Petition signatures. The sad fact is that in Greenburgh local elections, being represented on the Democratic Party ballot line, is tantamount to being elected.