Mayor de Blasio’s bishop buddy spent years moonlighting as a “slumlord,” an angry former tenant charged Saturday.
Bishop Orlando Findlayter owned two apartment buildings, in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights — and evicted at least 10 people, one for failing to pay a measly $950, public records show.
Jason Brewster, 42, lived in a three-unit building at 726A Quincy St. with his two young children and fiancée until he was sent packing over a $3,800 court judgment in 2002.
But Brewster says he had a good reason not to pay Findlayter — the bishop allegedly refused to fix a loose railing at the entrance that the dad feared might send his two kids tumbling down the stairs.
“He was a slumlord,” Brewster, who now lives in East New York, told The Post. “Bottom line was he didn’t want to fix anything. We owed money because we refused to pay any more.
“There was a rail coming up to the building that everybody complained about that he refused to fix,” Brewster added. “You could potentially fall and injure yourself.”
All told, Findlayter had seven members of the 99 percent tossed from his Quincy Street building and three from his property on Bergen Street between October 2001 and March 2004, records show.
The Quincy Street tenants owed him a total of just $21,967.
Findlayter took out a $253,000 mortgage with his wife for that building in 1998, according to property records. He sold it 10 years later for about $400,000.
At Bergen Street, the evicted renters owed him a total of $13,913.
Findlayter bought the Bergen Street property in 1999 after getting a $180,000 mortgage, and sold it in 2002 for $168,000, records show.
But the bishop reaped what he sowed. While he was kicking people to the curb, he was racking up thousands in debts of his own. He has owed at least $150,000 since 1989, public documents show.
He filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
Findlayter, who did not respond to calls for comment Saturday, ditched a press conference at which he’d said he would address the controversy surrounding his arrest for a traffic violation and open warrants.
Unlike his tenants, Findlayter has friends in high places: He was spared a night in jail after the mayor made a phone call to an NYPD official.