Over the weekend, the Daily News wrote about 113 Brooklyn buildings that are horror shows of building code violations from leaky pipes to rats the size of cats where the city has been forced to make repairs. The total tab: $4 million. The 113 buildings are on the city’s list of the 200 worst buildings in the city.
One 75-year-old resident of a building in Bed-Stuy says: “The landlord abandoned this house. We have no heat, no hot water. But we got rats all over. We got roaches. Everything is rotten here.”
The city spent about $250,000 to fix the building.
Some of the worst buildings in the city are (surprise) in Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Prospect Heights and East New York. The city tries to get its money back from the landlords, generally by putting liens on the buildings and estimates it gets back about 90 cents on the dollar.
Per the News the city says the “disproportionately high number of Brooklyn buildings in disrepair is due at least in part to a large number of old wood frame homes that need more maintenance than brick and brownstone houses.”
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development came out with a new list last month and another 120 Brooklyn buildings are on the list. Landlords have until March to make fixes and pay fines before the city does the work.
(Source: Curbed)
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And some of these landlords may be the nice man sitting next to you on Shabbos in your local shtiebel.
It’s a tough call. there is no money for fixing the building because of the low rents being paid due to rent control. sometimes landlords are forced to walk away from the building. so don’t judge others. you don’t know all the facts
jews are to blame for this outrage! especialy frum ones! is that what you are saying mrs. flatbush bubby? you should be ashamed of yourself for perpetuating anti semetic stereotypes.
when you make an investment,you take the risk that you will not make money.
My son in law works in management. He tells me that the tenant completely trash the apartment, inc. the plumbing–pipes, walls. When they move out, EVERYTHING has to be fixed, before showing to the next propective tnenat