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We are currently looking for a house, but until then I have to deal with this:

My row house in Bensonhurst was recently bought by a Chinese family of some sort. They moved into the basement (all 7 of them!) and little by little the tenants in the 3 other apartments moved out. This was due to the horrid smell of the new landlords cooking as they open the basement door and let the food stink up the hall (please forgive me for venting). I have lived in this building for 8 years…I have hosted the block party for 5 years and now I am being run out of my apartment and my street. My building used to be owned by a nice Italian man….now this. Now there are mice EVERYWHERE. The WHOLE building is Chinese now. When I asked the landlord to get rid of the mice, she said “no no…this is normal in Chinatown…they wont hurt you”. WHAT? I live in Bensonhurst…not Chinatown. All the tenants leave some cabbage and lettuce substance in bags outside their doors and do not throw it away. I have asked them numerous times to throw out their garbage but they pretend not to speak English (unreal!). At night the mice are in the bags. I don’t know how people can live like this. These people are pigs. What should my wife and I do? I have called 311 but the operator was no help. I do not want to live with mice. With the real estate market as bad as it is…I really don’t see us moving anytime soon. The landlord clearly is not going to do anything…she actually said “Oh…I hear them every night in the ceiling…there are lots of them”.

Please help!