An old movie theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant owned by the estate of a dead judge has turned into a Rastafarian drug den, neighbors say.
A group of Caribbean immigrants is squatting above the Black Lady Theater, neighbors say.
“I don’t understand why those people are still in the building,” said Samuel Boykin, whose uncle, Judge John Phillips, owned the Brooklyn theater. Boykin sent letters to Rep. Edolphus Towns and other officials.
Police raided the Nostrand Avenue building in April, arresting four people on charges of trespassing and possessing or dealing marijuana. But the number of squatters has grown, neighbors say.
A man who answered the building’s phone said he and others were followers of the Nyahbinghi Order — a Rastafarian sect, the man said.