{"id":112618,"date":"2020-11-15T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/harlem-tenants-left-without-heat-and-hot-water-for-weeks\/"},"modified":"2020-11-15T23:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:46:02","slug":"harlem-tenants-left-without-heat-and-hot-water-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/harlem-tenants-left-without-heat-and-hot-water-for-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Harlem tenants left without heat and hot water for weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Harlem tenants left without heat and hot water for weeks<\/strong>”
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\n Residents of a six-story Harlem apartment building owned by a notorious slumlord have been suffering without heat and hot water for weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Tenants at 2035 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. have been without heat or hot water since Oct. 27 due to a busted boiler, forcing them to resort to boiling water to bathe themselves and layer up with clothes.<\/p>\n

Department of Buildings inspectors ordered fixes after a November 10 visit<\/a> where they discovered there was no water at all in the boiler \u2014 which had at least one corroded pipe \u2014 and the controls and gauges were covered in soot, city records show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just unbearable to be dealing with these conditions. There is only so much water that you are able to boil at a time,\u201d resident Mariel Javier, 33, told The Post Friday. \u201cThese are basic necessities, you would think we would be living in a third-world country with how the conditions of this building are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Javier has been forced to send his 10-year-old twin daughters to stay with their grandparents in Westchester County every few days.<\/p>\n

Their landlord, Emmanuel Ku, had been notified years ago that the boiler was trouble, but he\u2019s failed to fix it, said Javier \u2014 a tenant advocate for the city\u2019s Housing and Preservation Department and has worked as the troubled building\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n

He told The Post he begged Ku\u2019s staff in 2018 and 2019 to replace the boiler but said he was told that he needed to \u201cget us through this winter. We\u2019re not buying a new boiler.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buildings Department records confirm the boiler has been a problem. City inspectors reported that it suffered from low pressure in 2019 and that Ku failed to file a required 2017 inspection report on the unit.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 30, a frustrated Javier sued Ku in Housing Court, seeking a judge\u2019s order to finally get the boiler fixed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took it upon myself to initiate a court proceeding where I would bring the landlord to court and hold him liable for the heat and hot water and most importantly the hazardous stairway that we have right here,\u201d Javier said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just the latest instance of alleged neglect at a building owned by Ku \u2014 and not just in the Big App<\/a>le, according to records from Records from Connecticut.<\/p>\n

In 2018, The US Department of Housing and Urban development terminated Ku\u2019s $1-million-a-year contract to provide subsidized housing to residents in two dozen Hartford apartment buildings that posed \u201cmajor threats to health and safety,\u201d according to a report in The Hartford Courant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Connecticut\u2019s attorney general<\/a>, William Tong, announced in January he was launching a probe of Ku<\/a> for allegedly making deceptive claims about his business practices, the Courant said.<\/p>\n

His track record in New York City is also littered with years of complaints and violations, records show.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Department of Housing Preservation and Development watchdog agency, has cited 10 buildings owned by Ku in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and The Bronx with a combined 1,989 violations over the years \u2014 466 of which remain unfixed, according to city records compiled by the tenant advocates group JustFix.NYC.<\/p>\n

Ku\u2019s building on Amsterdam Avenue accounts for 374 of those open violations.<\/p>\n

One tenant, a 29-year-old woman who has lived there for three years, said she has not been able to take a proper shower in weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty crazy. I\u2019ve been going to family\u2019s places,\u201d said the woman, who declined to give her name. \u201cI\u2019ve been boiling water, taking the most extreme bird baths I\u2019ve ever done. I\u2019m just trying to get creative, making do with something.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conditions may force her to move out, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people who have children, and I feel super bad for them,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I had kids right now, especially during COVID, online learning, no shower, no heat, it\u2019s got to be tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been hard,\u201d said another tenant, 21-year-old Moustapha Ndiaye. \u201cI can\u2019t take a shower. I boil the water, like two pots. It\u2019s nice to just wake up and take a shower.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Buildings Department spokesman told The Post that the agency has provided Ku\u2019s company with guidance on obtaining a mobile boiler and added that they \u201cwill continue to monitor the situation, and may take additional enforcement actions if repairs are not made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, an HPD spokesman said \u201cfurther action will be taken\u201d will be taken against Ku, pointing out that \u201cfines have been issued and we are actively working to correct the most serious violations as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ku could not be reached for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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