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Tenants Sue Kushner Cos. For Alleged Harassment, N.Y. Governor Launches Probe

Current and former tenants say the company exposed them to toxic dust, noise and rats, forcing them out of their rent-stabilized apartments and making way for luxury-condo buyers.

A promotional video for the Austin Nichols House — a swanky, renovated condominium building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, owned by Jared Kushner's family — showcases airy modern apartments where sunlight spills in through "Egyptian Revivalist style" casement windows to fill loft-like rooms from their "tobacco smoked oak herringbone floors" all the way up to their 10- to 13-foot ceilings.

The images are impeccably staged, depicting pristine and tranquil homes.

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