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Deed theft is stripping Black families out of Bed-Stuy. It just forced a new city office and became the defining fight in a June primary

Deed theft has gotten bad enough in Bed-Stuy to force a new city office, and it has become the defining fight in the 56th District June primary.

A row of Brooklyn brownstone rowhouses on a residential street

Deed theft is stripping Black families out of Bed-Stuy. It just forced a new city office and became the defining fight in a June primary

Deed theft has gotten bad enough in Bed-Stuy to force a new city office, and it has become the defining fight in the 56th District June primary.

Deed theft is stripping Black families out of Bed-Stuy. It just forced a new city office and became the defining fight in a June primary
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The fastest way to lose a Bed-Stuy brownstone your family has held for generations is not a missed mortgage payment. It is a forged signature. Deed theft, the fraudulent transfer of a home out from under an elderly or grieving owner, has gotten bad enough in central Brooklyn that it forced a new city office into being and turned a June primary into a referendum on it.

The numbers are climbing. More than 3,500 deed-theft complaints were filed citywide between 2014 and 2023 , and the annual count rose to 517 in 2025, concentrated in historically Black…

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