Harlemite Grandmother Sherri Culpepper Forced to House Squatters for Over a Decade by New York City Agencies In Brownstone Regentrification Effort
HARLEM, N.Y., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sherri Culpepper is a hard-working grandmother who has enjoyed an illustrious and multi-faceted career. The veteran urban radio producer has never said no to a challenge. She even changed careers after the age of 50, becoming an operating engineer, mastering a large variety of construction equipment, including cranes, bulldozers, and front-end loaders before joining the International Union of Operating Engineers - Local 15, not a small feat as a Black woman. However, the predicament she now finds herself in while trying to preserve her family legacy and save her home is a situation she never saw coming.
- HARLEM, N.Y., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sherri Culpepper is a hard-working grandmother who has enjoyed an illustrious and multi-faceted career.
- The fourth generation Harlemite, who took over her family's brownstones in 2012, has been in a twelve-year wrangle with varying New York City agencies to legally maintain ownership of her two properties.
- Culpepper, has filed a formal legal complaint (Supreme Court Index #159115 /2022) against numerous New York city agencies, including The City of New York, the New York City Department of Finance, the New York City Department of Buildings, and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
- She is in an ongoing battle against the squatters and the city, fighting to harness support for her plight as well as other homeowners in a similar dilemma.