Protesting a Bad Landlord
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
To follow up on our earlier post about East 22nd street building in desperate need of repairs, Aga Trojniak of the Flatbush Development Corporation emails that:
“Tenants and FDC have identified the main individual behind East 22nd Realty LLC (the entity that owns the buildings). His name is Samuel Fleischman, and we’ll be protesting outside his house tonight at 7:30PM: 1372 47th Street, Brooklyn. Please come out in support!”
Aga says that FDC has been organizing the two buildings for the past year.
“With a lot of work by dedicated tenants and South Brooklyn Legal Services, we received some (limited) response from the landlord early on, but things have significantly deteriorated since then.
Needless to say, NYC’s building code enforcement system is clearly broken when something like this can go on for such a long time, even with devoted tenants and community organizations like FDC and SBLS working on the issue. To make matters worse, these types of conditions are being repeated thousands of times all over NYC as landlords withhold repairs to get long-term tenants out of increasingly desirable neighborhoods.”
2 Responses to “Protesting a Bad Landlord”
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anonymous says:
FDC is incredibly supportive and helpful to residents in the neighborhood. While my building isn’t nearly as bad, Aga and FDC has helped the tenants in the building to bring the building up to code and livable for everyone. Despite all of the threats of lawsuits and fines, though, our landlord continues to do the absolute minimum and little has changed.
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Mr. Wash says:
Is a rent strike an option in this kind of case?
