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COPYRIGHT 2005 Daily News
Feb. 26--Meet landlord Yaakov Goldfeder, king of the city's property tax deadbeats with a $7.3 million tab. He is a hard man to track down. He has no listed phone number, his work address is a post office box and the managing agent registered with the city for his Brooklyn tenement has been dead for four years.
Goldfeder's six-story apartment building in Flatbush is so dilapidated, the city can expect more costs than benefits if it seizes the property to offset the mounting tax bill.
He tops a list of shame of hundreds of tax deadbeats who deprive the city of hundreds of millions of dollars while the rest of us struggle to pay our dues.
Six hundred fifty-nine building owners owe New York City some $327 million altogether in unpaid property tax, interest or repair costs.
He heads a disgraced top 10 that includes:
2. Horace Bullard, whose Coney Island Amusements Inc. owes $6.7 million in taxes, interest and penalties on a vacant 4-acre tract adjacent to Coney Island Amusement Park.
3. Andonis Morfesis of Five Pack LLC and Dream Realty Inc. He owes $4.4 million, including $2.2 million in taxes, interest, penalties and emergency maintenance for a 22-unit, six-story apartment building on Broadway just south of 125th St. in Harlem and $2 million for a 36-unit, six-story apartment building at 21...
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