Oak Hall, part of Brooklyn Gardens, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Feb. 18, 2026. (Credit: Tereza Pesmazoglou) I’m not going to screw this up, Fred Turbee, a now 71-year-old veteran, thought to himself as he stepped into the room of his single-room occupancy (SRO) building at Oak Hall on June 15, 2001. “The fact that I had a key to my space was just overwhelming. Nirvana,” he said, his oversized boxy glasses resting firmly on his nose. In November …
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