De Blasio: Crown Hts Building Has Most Violations in NYC
The Daily News reports that Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s office has published its third annual list of the worst apartment buildings and landlords in the city and, according to the ranking, the building with the most violations is in Brooklyn. A 40-unit building at 245 Sullivan Place in Crown Heights has 654 open violations,…
The Daily News reports that Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s office has published its third annual list of the worst apartment buildings and landlords in the city and, according to the ranking, the building with the most violations is in Brooklyn. A 40-unit building at 245 Sullivan Place in Crown Heights has 654 open violations, according to the article, much more than any other in the five boroughs. Here’s the story’s characterization of the state 245 Sullivan is in: “Tenants at the 40-unit complex say they’re sharing their homes with roaches and rats, and struggling to live with crumbling ceilings and exposed wiring. Some apartments lack either electricity, hot water or heat, or a mix of all three.” Tenants say the landlord, who is elderly, hasn’t made repairs in two years. The public advocate’s ranking, which is supposed “to shame landlords into improving conditions,” covers 358 buildings. According to the list’s official website, the building in the city with the second most number of violations is also in Brooklyn: 534 Pennsylvania Avenue, a 32-unit building in East New York, has 485 open violations.
Nightmare Building: 245 Sullivan Place in Crown Heights [NY Daily News]
NYC’s Worst Landlords [Official Site]
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the building is part of the AEP (alternative enforcement program). basically the city is their landlord now.
HPD has also put $2MM (yes, more than the building is worth) in mortgages against the building. when HPD forecloses on the building who does this benefit?! not the tenants. not the owner. not his heirs. however, the future owners who will be given an extreme discount through HPD with low interest loans, tax abatements and guess what.. by then the building will have half the number of regulated tenants.
Maybe the landlord is in a nursing home and has dementia. Who knows.
Maybe the landlord is in a nursing home and has dementia. Who knows.
or not collecting rents..
“Animals? Really?”
Yes, disgusting animals that squalor in their own filth and pity.
I have never heard of someone entering an unsecured building to find a place to pee in a hallway. But I could imagine that type of person would just go anywhere (i.e. in between a parked car, next to a tree, in a corner). It is most likely the tenants and/or their “animal” guests.
i doubt the landlord is the one urinating in the hallways, leaving food out or making holes in the walls. these people sound like animals.
i don’t think the owner of a rent stabilized building like this would mind if the tenants went in their own pockets to paint. i wouldn’t paint those apartments either if the tenants were paying $500/mo.
Stargazer,
The tenants can not paint their own apartments. It is would be ameliorating waste and the tenants could be responsible for damages.