Brooklyn owner of Eighth Street apartment building wants to construct boardinghouse

[From BuffaloNews.com]

A downstate property owner wants to turn a vacant apartment building on Eighth Street and Pine Avenue into a boardinghouse with one-room units for 140 people.

However, a landlord group and a city official are raising concerns about the project because of how many people would be living in such a small area.

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