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David Huber Is (Still) Really, Really Mad At Corcoran

Jilted would-be condo owner's one-man protest enters its second week.

David Huber is not giving up.

once again took to the pavement outside Corcoran's Lafayette Avenue office on Friday afternoon to take his case to the Fort Greene public.

Huber claims Corcoran abandoned him after a deal to purchase a unit in a rehabilitated Clinton Hill building fell through last month due to a lack of necessary paperwork.

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Charging that representatives of Corcoran had stopped returning calls and emails, the Fort Greene resident created a picket with homemade signs last Friday, mingling with mostly supportive passersby.

However, this week Huber seemed inclined to seek more traditional forms of redress, emailing Patch on Friday afternoon that he filed an "official claim with the Department of State."

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that it was the responsibility of his attorney, and not Corcoran, to ensure that the necessary documents were in order prior to the deal's closing, Huber insisted that his lawyer was not to blame.

"He is the person who saved me from going through with this very bad deal," he wrote.

If Huber's protest stretches into the weekend, he will have plenty of company in exhibiting his right of free assembly.

is expected to spread to Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza tomorrow.


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