Comments on: Scranton: The latest on the Nadvorna property

By: FayMemMemLamed

FayMemMemLamed — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:41:21 +0000

Moshe Fox

i believe you are close, but no cigar. There is a Rabbinical Monsour Family.

But isn’t The Madison School Properites and the Monsour the one who ran into that $5,000,000 real estate problem that left a Bais Yaakov school without funding, down on the Jersey Shore last year?

If this Deal falls though, I know of another empty school building just waiting for a tenant. And there is skiing just minutes away. All in NY State.

By: Itzik_s

Itzik_s — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:18:23 +0000

Mansour, Arabic for victorious, is a surname which is found among Muslims and Yoshkeites as well as Jews (like Rabbi Eli Mansour) in Syria and Lebanon.

By: yiddishefroi

yiddishefroi — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:54:40 +0000

yada – you are probably thinking of Novartis

By: justanobody

justanobody — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:49:19 +0000

I don’t get the problem

By: torahtotty

torahtotty — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:56:25 +0000

Sounds more like Anti Chasidism/semetism this building I am sure has been available for some time and this bid is just to block the hasidic group from buying.
As for staying in Brooklyn, I guess you neve priced a house in Scranton then. When I looked there myself to move two years ago you were able to buy a nice home for under 125,000. You can’t even buy a dirt lot for that price in NYC, and the taxs for a house in scranton are usualy under a $1,000 Now go find that in NYC.
May now you will realize why many Chasidic groups are looking outside of NY.

By: yada

yada — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:56:05 +0000

Moshe Fox,
I dont know where your from but just happens to be that there is a very prominent sephardic rabbi with the last name mansour. I thought nadvorna was a drug company or something until i read this and understand they are chassidim.
yochanan

By: kishke

kishke — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:47:14 +0000

A Sefardi not an Arab.

By: joe9487cool

joe9487cool — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:34:55 +0000

it stinks that nadvorna wont gt the property, but the couts have a fiduciary responsibility to the city, and in some states can be held liable for the difference between the higher sale price and what they sold for

By: Rochel Weissberger

Rochel Weissberger — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:50:07 +0000

I am surprised that Nadvorna would be moving to Scranton. This is the first time I heard such a thing. But, there is a lot of vacant property still in Brooklyn in neighborhoods such as Brownsville and East New York though no one would dream of going there. There is also a lot of foreclosures and empty condos which are now being turned into apartments.