need info. on Judge

[NYHawk]

Anybody know anything about Housing Court Judge Capella? Oddly, I can't find out anything about this judge either on Housing Court's web page or Google. Thanks,

[Anna]

He's apparently a newly appointed judge in Manhattan, as is Jaya Madhaven, Bronx, and Alex Calabrese, Community Court (Redhook?).

No announcement on the website. Call or email Steve DeCastro, he's the tenant atty on the HC advisory board (call his MNN TV show Sat pm!)

nycourts.gov atty search lists:

JOSEPH EDDIE CAPELLA
OFFICE OF COURT ADMIMISTRATION
111 CENTRE ST NEW YORK NY 10013 (212) 428-2695

ps: lend a hand, answer a few posts....

[Anna]

Three HC judges don't have profiles on nycourts.gov. One judge was appointed years ago, another sounds recent, the third, yours, is completely MIA from the web, including Martindale.com

Jaya Madhaven, a Legal Aid attorney, was appointed to the Housing Court in New York City! By our count, we believe he is the second South Asian judge in the State of New York! http://www.aabany.org/

But they didn't say when he was appointed.

Judge Alex Calabrese is the presiding judge at the Red Hook Community Justice Center, a multi-jurisdictional community court that recently opened its doors in a renovated parochial school in southwest Brooklyn. Judge Calabrese was selected to preside in Red Hook after three years in Brooklyn Criminal Court. Prior to becoming a judge, Calabrese served as a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society and as a law assistant to Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder in Manhattan Supreme Court. A native of the Bronx, he has lived in Brooklyn for 20 years. http://www.communityjustice.org/

He has been there since before July 2000.