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Evicted residents don't know if they can ever return

The 200 some tenants booted from their Brooklyn building over the weekend because of a fire hazard still don't know when -- if ever -- they can go back home.

"I have no idea," said Nachman Brach, the building's owner Tuesday.

Councilman David Yassky, who represents South Williamsburg, told his newly homeless constituents of 475 Kent Ave. that, according to officials at City Hall, they...

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