A young couple with a 10-month-old child are facing eviction from their dilapidated Crown Heights apartment owned by Pinnacle Group—the corporate slumlord that Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to hold accountable on his very first day in office.
Yasmin Almokhamad and José Zelaya stopped paying their rent in February 2025 after they say requests to fix leaks and address roaches, mice, and lead contamination in their home were ignored for over a year. In April, two months after they began withholding rent, Pinnacle moved to evict the couple, just as their baby Lulu was born.