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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association advocates for the legal rights of tenants living in the Marx Brothers Childhood Home in NYC & to end Landlord RSL fraud

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

7 months

@katie_honan @NYCMayor "...then went right back up to his car." 😂🤣😂🤣

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@17993rd

2 years

@LaRepublica17 @mollycrabapple Why are you buying into their narrative that these apartments need to be renovated? @GovKathyHochul needs to order the immediate inspections of the warehoused apartments w/tenant reps & press on walk thru

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@17993rd

3 years

Most of lower Manhattan is either at or BELOW sea level. WHY would #NYC even consider imposing MORE stress on our tortured ecosystem & crumbling infrastructure? Turn Hudson Yards & empty office space into affordable housing & leave SOHO/NOHO & Elizabeth St Garden alone! #climate

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@17993rd

2 years

1/2 In the midst of an affordable housing crisis, it is unconscionable that the State of NY has not yet ordered the IMMEDIATE release of the more than 20,000 Rent Stabilized apartments CHIP has admitted are being unlawfully kept off the market by ruthless

Landlords offer to re-open 20K warehoused apartments*

Landlords have a deal for Albany. They would fix up and return 20,000 rent-stabilized apartments to the market. In return, lawmakers would give them a way to pay for it — by allowing for a vacancy...

therealdeal.com

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

#Landlords who rob NY State of rent stabilized apartments through fraud (e.g. false rent reg, fraudulent IAIs, etc.) should be prosecuted to the fullest, along w/the expediters, public officials & “lawyers” who enable their unlawful schemes. @NewYorkStateAG @ManhattanDA @nycpa

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@17993rd

3 years

1/3 #Landlords are REQUIRED, as a matter of law, to keep ALL their apartments Code-Compliant. So what CHIP is admitting here is not only that landlords are holding hostage, at least, 200,000 Rent Stabilized apartments, but they are admitting that some of

Landlords offer to re-open 20K warehoused apartments*

Landlords have a deal for Albany. They would fix up and return 20,000 rent-stabilized apartments to the market. In return, lawmakers would give them a way to pay for it — by allowing for a vacancy...

therealdeal.com

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

#SignatureBank holds the #mortgage to our Rent Stabilized Building.

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@17993rd

3 years

As our Super lives a different Borough, at least 41 minutes away (we Google mapped it), & our so-called Building “Manager” has been working remotely from FL, there has been NO response to the fact we have had NO HEAT for over 7 hours & the pipes are still ice🧊 cold 🥶. @NYCMayor

179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

The HEAT has been off all day @ 179 East 93rd Street NYC & the temps are forecast to start dropping into the 30s after sundown. So somebody needs to turn the heat back on asap. Thanks! @NYCHousing @NYCMOPT @JulieMenin @SenatorSerrano @NYCComptroller @nycpa @nyc311 @GovKathyHochul

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@17993rd

3 years

1/3 It is absolutely outrageous that in the midst of a Housing Crisis, #NY #Landlords have admitted that they are hoarding, at least, 200,000 Rent Stabilized apartments; holding them off-market! RSL apartments are, by definition, regulated. These unscrupulous law breakers should

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@17993rd

2 years

@ceaweaver @tthoma24 No one forced these landlords to enter a highly regulated NY industry. They want a bargain RSL building so they can fraudulently deregulate & flip it at market rate. 🎻

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@17993rd

2 years

“The pressure is on to open the city’s vacant apartments.” #EndWarehousing #Pass195 @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @JulieMenin @galeabrewer @PiSanchezNYC @OswaldFeliz @CMShekarK

In Near-Daily Protests, Tenants Demand a Stop to Rent-Stabilized Apartment Vacancies

Since THE CITY’s finding that last year some 89,000 rent-stabilized units were empty, tenants and elected officials have been taking to the streets.

www.thecity.nyc

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@17993rd

2 years

Request: Please name a #NY politician who is NOT owned by the Real Estate/ #Landlord lobby. We know they are out there, however few they may be, & we are putting together a list 📝. Thanks for your help! #TenantsRights #EnforceHSTPA #EnforceNYCBuildingCode #EnforceNYCHousingCode

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

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We have had NO HEAT all weekend long & it’s been Cold 🥶, overnight especially. Of course, if we had a real Super (as opposed to some guy who lives at least 45 minutes away by the fastest subway), our building might actually be maintained. @JulieMenin @NYCMOPT @NYCHousing #NYC311

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

The heat is finally back on @ 179E93 (for now at least) 🙏🙏🏽🙏🏻 Thanks to everyone who tweeted about our building’s chronic heat failure! Hopefully, @NYCHousing & @NYC_Buildings will eventually send inspector to examine the boiler & radiators so we can have reliable heat @NYCMayor

179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

As our Super lives a different Borough, at least 41 minutes away (we Google mapped it), & our so-called Building “Manager” has been working remotely from FL, there has been NO response to the fact we have had NO HEAT for over 7 hours & the pipes are still ice🧊 cold 🥶. @NYCMayor

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

Not. At. All. 🌊 🌧 ⛈ Logic & common sense would have @NYCPlanning suspend all development plans until new flood maps are drawn and adequate storm drain systems are installed. The City is recklessly barreling ahead due to its addiction to construction/real estate lobbying💰

Lyric

@DecaturTenant

3 years

We are not prepared for the coming storms..

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@17993rd

2 years

#Slumlords are sustained by a combination of corruption & a lack of enforcement. A corrupt landlord can only succeed with a willing partner in our city government. #EnforceBuildingCode #EnforceHousingCode #EnforceHSTPA #EnforceRentRegulations @NYCMOPT @NYC_Buildings @NYCHousing

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@17993rd

8 months

* @NYC_Buildings needs to take WAY MORE SERIOUSLY deteriorating facade conditions, spalling bricks & loose or cracked mortar; An unenforced #NYC Building Code has deadly consequences. Falling rocks, deteriorating facade lead to Brooklyn woman's death.

Woman killed in partial façade collapse in Brooklyn

A vacate order has been issued, along with a violation for failing to maintain the building.

www.cbsnews.com

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

NY AG has sued #Landlord lawyers Balsamo, Rosenblatt & Hall for engaging in deceptive rent collection practices and initiating frivolous lawsuits against #NY #Tenants . @NewYorkStateAG also seeks to suspend all unjustified cases against tenants & return $.

Attorney General James Sues Eviction Lawyers for Taking Advantage of New York Tenants

Click to read more.

ag.ny.gov

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@17993rd

1 year

When a woman speaks truth to power, she does not need to kneel & kiss the Mayor’s ring. And when that woman has devoted her time to helping & advocating for #Housing & #Tenants rights for 40+ yrs, it is the Mayor who owes HER the respect of listening. If he can’t take the heat…

Juan Rosa

@JuanRosa_NYC

1 year

This woman is Jeanie Dubnau, the Co-Founder of the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association (RENA), a tenants & housing rights advocacy organization in Upper Manhattan. She has +40 years advocating for low income NYers of all races. Jeanie is not a racist & this was wrong.

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@17993rd

3 years

1/4 In the literal wake of devastating floods-caused by the wholesale destruction of wetlands & porous ground w/o installation of adequate storm drain systems to accommodate the resulting FLOOD run-off-ALL #NYC development & #Zoning plans/projects/decisions MUST be put ON HOLD in

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

As per @THECITYNY ’s great reporting on continued #Landlord theft of Rent Stabilized aparts thru fraudulent schemes, #tenants in the Marx Brothers childhood home, wish to remind all to scrutinize the fraudulent leases& false rent registrations proffered by unscrupulous slumlords🎄

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@17993rd

2 years

Corrupt #landlords often have corrupt #lawyers . Just sayin’.

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@17993rd

2 years

Anybody know WHY the @GaleBrewerNYC led @NYCCouncil Oversight & #Investigations Hearings on @NYC_Buildings Qualifications for #GAS work was canceled? (See: crossed out & marked “deferred”). @NYCSpeakerAdams @nycpa @FDNY @NYCHousing @JulieMenin @CMPiSanchez @OswaldFeliz @CMShekarK

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

If @NYCourtsCOA Justice Rowan Wilson issued a TRO to halt the work @ East River Park, why is the City of NY flouting a Court Order? Why would #NYC willfully defy a NY Court Order? @NYCComptroller @NewYorkStateAG @GovKathyHochul @NYCMayorsOffice @nycpa @MarkLevineNYC @bradlander

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@EmilyJCatalyst

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@17993rd

10 months

Yet, @HeyNowJO is busy telling reporters the partial Bldg collapse isn’t on @NYC_Buildings AS IF the engineer’s facade report & work plan renderings weren’t submitted to & filed w/ #NYC #DOB WHICH THEY WERE. Nothing to see here. Ignore all the rubble… 🦗 @katie_honan @AliBaumanTV

David R. 🇪🇨🇵🇷

@Pest174

10 months

@fuelgrannie Recently found this in my room. DOB came to my building, saw the severe stress cracks on the facades, and just gave the LL a $1000 fine and to make an appearance in court. LL didn't do either, and the issue persisted.

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@17993rd

3 years

Proposed NY bill that would pierce opaque system of LLCs-which serve as shell companies, shielding Russian Oligarchs from liabilities & prosecution-would also force transparency & accountability in secretive #Slumlord biz practices. #PleaseVoteYES @SenatorSerrano @bradhoylman

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@17993rd

8 months

FINALLY going after low hanging fruit, woefully overripe because it's been rotting in plain sight on the vine for years, distracts from fact @AdolfoCarrion & @HeyNowJO are complicit in #NYC #Landlord crimes against Rent Stabilized #Tenants & have enabled reckless neglect for yrs

Lyric

@DecaturTenant

8 months

This should happen EVERY TIME a landlord false certifies a repair or neglects to make the needed repairs. @AdolfoCarrion you get no points for simply DOING THE JOB OF ENFORCING THE SAFTEY CODES AS THATS WHY WE PAY HPD ENFORCEMENT.

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

It’s more than just a tacit agreement; #SignatureBank was actively complicit in #Slumlord Slavik Gofman’s fraudulent scheme to rob #NY of vital rent stabilized housing stock. #EnforceHSTPA #EnforceBuildingCode #EnforceHousingCode #ProsecuteCorruptLandlords

Collapsed Signature Bank Made Risky Loans to Predatory Landlords

Housing advocates are highlighting how the failed bank fueled NYC's housing crisis by funding predatory landlords.

www.vice.com

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@17993rd

2 years

1/3 Remember how #Slumlord Slavik Gofman refused to comply w/ @NYCHousing Notice to Tenants that our building has been designated for #HPD ’s Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP), which Notice requires the landlord post the name of the bank that holds the mortgage to our building?

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@17993rd

3 years

2/4 order to allow time to fully examine the ACTUAL impacts of any such projects on #NYC ’s severely overwhelmed (read: inadequate to handle catastrophic weather that is no longer infrequent) storm drain system. Our city should not contribute to the deaths of any more New Yorkers.

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@17993rd

3 years

@MylesClouston @BirdCentralPark

Howard Katz

@HK7682

3 years

Wasn’t expecting today to see a Bald Eagle perch on a nearby tree along the Reservoir. What a treat! A CP lifer! #birdcpp

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

When #Landlord unlawfully takes rent Stabilized aparts off market-whether by failing to register & renting as deregulated or thru fictitious IAIs-he/she is inevitably committing #BankFraud as landlord uses inflated value of illegally deregulated building as collateral for loans

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@17993rd

8 months

@IlanaMaier @NYCHousing @CnDelarosa @AMDeLosSantos72 @MannyDeLosSanto @RJackson_NYC @MarkLevineNYC @MBPMarkLevine @MTorresSpringer @AdolfoCarrion @RepEspaillat @EspaillatNY It's a start. But the list is long. CC: @ManhattanDA #ProsecuteSlumlords #ProsecuteCorruptLandlords #ProsecutePublicCorruption #ProsecuteCorruptLandlordLawyers

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@17993rd

2 years

No one forced #NY #Landlords to speculatively buy NYS REGULATED properties. If they don’t want to comply w/law, #CHIP & Co. should buy buildings at market rate. But they won’t because they are cheap & want a bargain price for building & then violate NY law

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@17993rd

8 months

So is this our #Slumlord Slavik Gofman attesting to @NYC_Buildings -on Gofman's Application to Legalize his illegal construction of "Sleeping Lofts" in Apts 4D, 3D, 2A & 1A-that there are no Rent Stab apts in our rent stab bldg that's occupied by Rent Stab tenants? Plz let us know

179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

8 months

1/2 The @NYC_Buildings Violation for the "sleeping lofts" (Ref related #DOB Violation) #Slumlord Slavik Gofman built W/O DOB Permits or prior permission from @NYSHCR @ 179E93 cites the UNPERMITTED CONSTRUCTION WORK in APT 4D, 3D, 2A & 1A BUT LEGALIZATION WORK PLAN FILED by GOFMAN

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@17993rd

3 years

2/3 these RSL apartments were, in fact, previously rented to #Tenants despite not being up to NY Code; Historic Breaches of the Warranty of habitability & @NYCHousing Violations is NOT an argument for a so-called “reset” of the outlawed Vacancy bonus, but

Landlords offer to re-open 20K warehoused apartments*

Landlords have a deal for Albany. They would fix up and return 20,000 rent-stabilized apartments to the market. In return, lawmakers would give them a way to pay for it — by allowing for a vacancy...

therealdeal.com

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

8 months

@DecaturTenant @rvisnauskas In breach of the public duty with which it is charged & in violation of NY law, @rvisnauskas @NYSHCR willfully turn a blind eye to #landlords ' documented Fraudulent schemes to remove Rent Stabilized apartments from NY's Rent Rolls. #EnforceHSTPA #ProsecutePublicCorruption

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@17993rd

2 years

Anyone who lacks the spine to stand up to the #NY Real Estate & #Landlord lobby when they’ve admitted to holding hostage rent stabilized apartments (estimated @ 60,000+) in midst of #Housing Crisis is straight up morally bankrupt. @CivilRights @POTUS @ManhattanDA @GovKathyHochul

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@17993rd

3 years

3/3 rather, grounds for holding accountable, penalizing & ordering inspections of these hostage RSL apartments. STAT! @NewYorkStateAG @nycpa @NYCComptroller @BrianKavanaghNY @CMPiSanchez @OswaldFeliz @CMShekarK @AndreaSCousins @JulieMenin @NYCSpeakerAdams

Landlords offer to re-open 20K warehoused apartments*

Landlords have a deal for Albany. They would fix up and return 20,000 rent-stabilized apartments to the market. In return, lawmakers would give them a way to pay for it — by allowing for a vacancy...

therealdeal.com

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

For the love of God, #NY #Housing advocates have been pleading w/you to Order @NYSHCR inspections to determine habitability of the >than 60,000 rent stabilized aparts being ILLEGALLY warehoused & deliberately kept off market by greedy landlords. This is extant affordable housing.

Governor Kathy Hochul

@GovKathyHochul

2 years

Our New York Housing Compact is a groundbreaking strategy to unlock our housing production to make our state more affordable and livable. @NYSHCR is working with local communities to ensure they have what they need to meet our goal of 800,000 new homes.

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@17993rd

2 years

If your Electeds have not made housing & restoring to market the more than 60,000 rent Stabilized aparts being ILLEGALLY warehoused by #NY #landlords , their TOP priority (as housing affects, crime, etc), then your Electeds are failing you & every other New Yorker. Vote them out!

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

8 months

When @NYCHousing abuses its discretion by actively endangering #tenants ' lives, health & safety by refusing to issue Violations for hazardous conditions #HPD Inspectors discover & observe, HPD should be held criminally liable for enabling #slumlords to harass & abuse #tenants .

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@17993rd

2 years

@GloriaPazmino @NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul If you fail to address #NY #housing crisis & refuse to order immediate inspection of 60,000+ rent stabilized aparts #landlords are unlawfully holding hostage (in shake-down scheme for public💰& pressure @AndreaSCousins to cave on #HSTPA ), you can forget CCC. #ItStartsWithHousing

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@17993rd

1 year

@TimDubnau @loud_socialist We are ALL proud of your mom! #JeanieDubnauForMayor

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

7 months

Remember when the @NYSenate @CarlHeastie @AndreaSCousins @BrianKavanaghNY @LindaBRosenthal made NY's Rent Regulations PERMANENT? Good times. #LiarLiarPantsOnFire #BrokenPromises #WhenAPoliticiansLipsAreMoving #VoteThemOUT

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@17993rd

2 years

Our notoriously unscrupulous #UES Slumlord, Slavik Gofman, has illegally deregulated no less than 1/2 the apartments in our building, 179 East 93rd St & uses the fraudulently inflated value of our building as collateral for bank loans, refinancing, etc. Straight up #BankFraud .

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

This reads like a cautionary tale of what #NYC should never do again! Not in SoHo, NoHo, the Seaport, Meatpacking District, Carnegie Hill or in ANY other Historic District! @nyclandmarks @NYCMayor @NYC_Buildings @MarkLevineNYC @galeabrewer @GVSHP @JulieMenin @CHNeighborsNY @CB8M

The Village Sun

@TheVillageSun

3 years

What meatheads! Developer undermines nine landmarked buildings in Meatpacking District and city orders their demolition... BY THE VILLAGE SUN | In shocking news, the city has ordered the near-complete demolition of nine landmark buildings on the northeas

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@17993rd

7 months

Rather than irreparable draconian measures that displace hardworking NYers crushed by inflation & skyrocketing property taxes, #NYC would better serve the PEOPLE were it to hold ACCOUNTABLE LAWLESS #LANDLORDS who rack up 💰 HAZARDOUS CONDITION VIOLATIONS @NYC_Buildings WRITES OFF

Furman Center

@FurmanCenterNYU

7 months

New York City officials are finalizing plans to replace a controversial debt collection system by the end of the current fiscal year as unpaid property taxes continue to rise, according to the city’s finance commissioner via @Gothamist 's @DavidFBrand

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

Our #Slumlord , Slavik Gofman, is literally #NextLevel ; Because Gofman has failed to comply w/8/2/21 #Housing Court Order to cure >100 Open #HPD violations in our building, on Jan 31, 2023, #NYC designated our building as “severely distressed” & escalated HPD #Enforcement : AEP.

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

9 months

2C is a 1Bdrm Rent Control Apt, last Registered @ $285.68. #Slumlord Slavik Gofman Illegally Converted 2C (building unpermitted partition to create 2nd Bdrm) to 2Bdrm & is brazenly renting out RENT REGULATED APT as deregulated 2Bdrm @ $2,700 per month. #ProsecuteCorruptLandlords

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@17993rd

2 years

1/2 The #FIRE EXIT DOOR @ our roof @Bulkhead has been subject of @NYCHousing Violations for more than 3 yrs & remains an Open Violation today, endangering the lives of #tenants & # @FDNY as the door is now lashed shut w/a #BUNGEECORD , a hazard that would be hard to see in smoke!

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

1 year

Accident Schmaccident Welcome to Mayor Adams’ #CityOfYes where the goal is to build, build, build! CUT THRU “RED TAPE”! Compromise Safety Standards, Site Inspections & Review! Real Public & Environmental Safety REQUIRES review & investigation B4 Permits are Issued NOT AFTER!

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

1 year

#HPD just can’t seem to get out of its own way no matter what they do; Enabling #Slumlords like Gofman to abuse #Tenants with uncured conditions that pose a danger to health & safety is NOT the public duty with which y’all are charged. Cc: @NYCComptroller @ManhattanDA @JulieMenin

179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

1 year

And when we told @NYCHousing Inspector Rodriguez the discharge, seen in the pics, which chronically #leaks through the vent, is caused by Gofman’s ILLEGAL PLUMBING in 2A, for which @NYC_Buildings issued violation, #HPD Inspector said, “but that’s DOB, not us” #DAVENPORT #Surfside

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@17993rd

3 years

This news might explain why #HPD settled >100 open violations-some of which #Slumlord Gofman ignored for years-for mere $6500; so hazardous conditions persist. Time to tighten #ethics rules so public can trust #NYC Officials are not cutting deals in exchange for golden parachutes

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

7 months

@katie_honan @NYCMayor This is not about time spent filing a form. It's about the mayor thinking he can build a moat around his palace of All the Kings Men & Women. NYC is an egalitarian DEMOCRACY where we ALL have free access to our PUBLIC SERVANTS, be they Commissioners or the not so Royal 👑 Mayor!

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

There is a special place in hell for #landlords who harass & terrorize their #tenants while willfully neglecting their buildings #TenantsRights #EnforceHSTPA #EnforceNYChousingCode #EnforceNYCbuildingCode #ProsecuteCorruptLandlords #ProsecuteCriminalLandlords #ProsecuteSlumlords

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@17993rd

1 year

1/4 It used to be that going to the mat to protect & defend #Tenants Rights & NY’s #Rent Regulations was neither a “progressive” nor a “liberal” issue, but rather a bedrock #NY value. And after the NYS legislature enacted #HSTPA , tenants were promised even

Mayor Compares Housing Activist, Whose Family Fled Holocaust, to Plantation Owner (Published 2023)

Mayor Eric Adams criticized the woman, whose family left Germany in the 1930s, after she questioned him about back-to-back rent increases.

www.nytimes.com

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179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

3 years

Being in control for 80 years, the #DHCR has become a bureaucratic bully that is more interested in holding on to the vestiges of its own power, than correctly applying the law or protecting #tenants rights, all while bending over backwards to help #slumlords commit IAI #Fraud .

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@17993rd

1 year

In her own words. #JeanieDubnau #ReformRGB #TenantsRights #TenantProtections #EnforceHSTPA #EnforceHousingCode #EnforceBuildingCode #ProsecuteCorruptLandlords #ProsecutePublicCorruption

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@17993rd

2 years

1/2 Rezoning is not a solution to the #NYC housing crisis. If NYC were serious about affordable housing, it would 1.) Demand that @GovKathyHochul order #CHIP to provide names & locations of the 10,000+ RSL apts #Landlords are illegally warehousing off market & put those apts up

Michael Hollingsworth

@mike4brooklyn

2 years

I don't know Richards, but It's a mistake to believe that most electeds are good & altruistic people. When history has shown us that these offices have been & continue to be replete with reprobates. We think the bar for public office is high, when in reality the bar is in hell.

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@17993rd

2 years

1/2 As documented by @NYC_Buildings Office of Buildings Marshall on Oct. 5, 2022, without #DOB Permits, Safety Inspections or prior permission from @NYSHCR , our #Slumlord , Slavik Gofman, illegally converted no less than two 1-Bedroom Rent Stabilized apts

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@17993rd

1 year

A history of #building complaints; Spalling bricks; Deteriorating Facade; loose & broken mortar; #IllegalConstructionWork putting stress on structural integrity; Noncompliance followed by Epic enforcement fails; Bureaucratic CYA @ the expense of #Tenants ’ safety. #Davenport #NYC

179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

1 year

3/3 Roeder for doing exactly ZERO, despite the fact #Slumlord Gofman was MONTHS INTO CONTEMPT of 8/2/21 #Housing Court Order to cure 105 Open Violations, several of which were in public areas (unfettered access) & some Violations YEARS old. #PublicCorruption #Surfside #Davenport

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@17993rd

2 years

We’ve seen #PerpWalks of #DOB Inspectors, #HPD Inspectors, #Asbestos Inspectors, et al. But the time has come to round up the real culprits; the ones handing out 💵 to water down violations or make them go away all together: #Landlords . Criminal landlords endanger #tenants ’ lives

179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

@17993rd

2 years

In response to TA #FOIL Request for any & ALL records of 1/2021 #GasLeak @ 179E93-caused by #Landlord Gofman moving 2A GAS STOVE w/o #DOB Permit or #DHCR ’s prior permission- @ConEdison & @NYSDPS claim they have NO RECORDS of GAS incidents documented by #FDNY , #DOB , TA & Bldg Mngmt

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@17993rd

3 years

Meanwhile #NYC destroys parks, neighborhoods & historic districts under guise of creating “affordable” housing which will not provide affordable housing, when NYC has vast portfolio of affordable RSL apartments if they simply applied the law & enforcement! #HSTPA @GovKathyHochul

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@17993rd

2 years

1/4 Someone(s) @NYC_Buildings has, for years, protected our corrupt #UES #Slumlord Slavik Gofman. Despite myriad Violations, Commissioners’ Orders, #NYC Liens, etc. against Gofman for the countless dangerous conditions in our building 179E93 (some of which remained unresolved for

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@17993rd

7 months

List of the 38 NYS Senators who've said NO to the FAILED policies of yesteryear. Please scroll through list to see if YOUR NYS Senator is protecting #TenantProtections & if not, plz TWEET them your opinion STAT B4 they jeopardize #Tenants health & safety!

50 State Lawmakers Reject Trading One Set of Tenant Protections for Another - Housing Justice for...

Senate Deputy Leader, Finance Chair, Housing Chairs from both conferences join push back against changes to rent stabilization and carve-outs to Good Cause Eviction protections ALBANY – Fifty state...

housingjusticeforall.org

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@17993rd

2 years

2/2 #Landlords as part of a greedy scheme to artificially drive up demand even more & thereby inflate further already inflated rents. #NYHousingCrisis #EnforceHSTPA #TenantsRights @GovKathyHochul @NYSHCR @rvisnauskas @NYCMOPT @NYCSpeakerAdams @JulieMenin

Landlords offer to re-open 20K warehoused apartments*

Landlords have a deal for Albany. They would fix up and return 20,000 rent-stabilized apartments to the market. In return, lawmakers would give them a way to pay for it — by allowing for a vacancy...

therealdeal.com

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@17993rd

2 years

1/3 Remember how our building was put into the HPD Alternative Enforcement Program “AEP” on January 31, 2023 because has failed to comply w/8/2/21 Housing Court Order directing Gofman to make HPD-Ordered repairs? Well, now he is even refusing to comply with HPD AED’s NOTICE TO

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@17993rd

2 years

Happy birthday to our #NYC Council Member, @JulieMenin , who prevailed upon @NYCHousing to get the heat turned on in our cold #UES Rent Stabilized building, the historic childhood home of the beloved comic geniuses known across the globe as The Marx Brothers!!! 🎉🎂🎈 #Celebrate

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@17993rd

2 years

1/2 So #NYC #DOB finally inspects the illegal construction work our #Slumlord Slavik Gofman has done in our building & says, this is all illegal; all kinds of violations. That’s what they said, until…🦗. So WHO exactly does Gofman own? Or is it just a city& state bias against

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@17993rd

8 months

Due, in part, to the number of judges who refuse to respect #RTC & because of systemic Judicial bias against tenants, #NYC Courts have become enablers of #Slumlords ' aggressive- & all too often unlawful & sometimes criminal-tactics to harass NYC #tenants .

NYC Evictions Hit Highs Unseen In 4 Years, Data Shows

January's eviction numbers were nearly identical to those in January 2020, right before the COVID pandemic struck, according to data.

patch.com

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@17993rd

1 year

#SCOTUS has turned down Jay Martin’s #LandlordLobby #CHIP attempt to overturn @NYSenate ‘s 2019 amendment ( #HSTPA ) to NY’s Rent Regulations. 2 more LL lobby appeals on docket, so will have to wait & see what #HarlanCrow -influenced SCOTUS does w/those.

Supreme Court Won’t Take Up Landlords’ Challenge to New York’s Rent Regulations

Property owners argued that 2019 reforms violated their rights and is “destroying” housing. Yet profits are still plentiful.

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@17993rd

2 years

1/2 New Yorkers are so lucky that there are more than 60,000 NY State-regulated Rent Stabilized apartments that may be immediately habitable (but kept off market as leverage for repealing #HSTPA ’s essential $15K cap on RSL Renos). Some states don’t have that kind of housing stock

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@17993rd

2 years

#Slumlord Slavik Gofman has refused to comply with @NYCHousing requirement that landlord post Notice to Tenants that our building has been designated for #HPD AEP. Is there ANY enforcement in #NYC anymore? Any enforcement? At all? @AdolfoCarrion @NYCSpeakerAdams @ManhattanDA

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@17993rd

3 years

With a #NYC Building Manager working remotely from Florida & a “Super” who lives more than 40 minutes a way in a different borough, what could possibly go wrong? Like…everything. For starters: No hot water @ 179E93 again! @NYCMOPT @NYCMayor @NYCHousing @nycpa @NewYorkStateAG

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@17993rd

2 years

Solution #1 is for @GovKathyHochul to order immediate inspection of the >60,000 rent stabilized apartments being warehoused by #landlords -in ruthless bid to pressure @AndreaSCousins to ditch $15K reno cap provision of #HSTPA -to determine habitability. @nycpa @Theduke1991 @NYSHCR

MetroFocus

@MetroFocus

2 years

. @CityAndStateNY is hosting a public event “Solutions to Affordable Housing in New York City & State" @PiSanchezNYC , @DanGarodnick of @NYCPlanning & @MosesNYC of @RegionalPlan discuss some of those solutions. 5 & 7pm @WLIW21 5:30pm @MyNJPBS 6pm @ThirteenWNET @chasingthedream

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@17993rd

1 year

The City @ State of #NY should be WAY past the time of allowing lying, fraudster #Landlords to “self-certify” ANYTHING. But neither the @NYCCouncil or the @NYSenate have the 🏀 ⚽️ 🏈 to change that because the landlord & #RealEstate lobbies fund more than 75% of their campaigns.

Lyric

@DecaturTenant

1 year

@HeyNowJO @NYCSanitation DOB removes violations based on the landlords word.. How many times is DOB going to write and remove the violations on our doors which are STILL not code compliant? HOW MANY TIMES JIMMY? DOB removed a violation for my door based on an order to correct for another building.. WTF?

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@17993rd

3 years

Are #landlords allowed to remove radiators from common areas? Cuz that’s what #Slumlord Slavik Gofman did & ever since he removed the radiator from our hallway-making the hallway as cold as 🧊-our apartments have never been as warm as they used to be 🥶 @NYCHousing @NYC_Buildings

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@17993rd

2 years

So what Hizzoner meant by “City of Yes” is Yes to everything #landlords , #RealEstateMoguls & #Developers want (w/no questions asked & no requirement to comply w/Bldng Code, Housing Code or Environmental Regs) & NO to #NYC #tenants (ref. 2022 RGB Rent Hike)

Mayor’s tenant-protection office hollowed out

During a town hall meeting for tenants last March, an online presentation touted the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants as a “core part of the City’s strategy to confront the affordable housing...

therealdeal.com

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@17993rd

2 years

3/4 endangering the health & safety of #tenants & the public. Protecting a corrupt #landlord engaged in an ongoing fraudulent scheme to unlawfully deregulate Rent Stabilized apartments in the midst of a housing crisis is not only a crime, but a perverse breach of the public trust

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@17993rd

2 years

THIS 👇👇🏽👇🏻 🧵 ANY elected unwilling to demand these RSL apartments be immediately released onto the market, has NO credibility on issues of development or affordable housing & should be resoundingly rejected. @NYCMayor @NYCMOPT @aaronAcarr @LaMort_Esq @LegalAidNYC @JulieMenin

UES VOX

@UesVox

2 years

The #Landlord Lobby Group #CHIP has openly admitted landlords are deliberately withholding more than 20,000 #Rent Stabilized apartments off the market in hopes of #HSTPA being repealed. @GovKathyHochul has the power to& should order the immediate release of these hostage RSL Apts

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@17993rd

2 years

Either #NY law has meaning or it doesn’t. #RTC

Shaun Abreu

@ShaunAbreu

2 years

13,000 tenants are showing up to housing court without legal representation. This undermines the crux of our Right to Counsel law. Let’s invest in housing attorneys, slow down the caseload before housing court, and keep families in their homes!

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@17993rd

3 years

As you can see, the City of NY has had Notice of the dangerous work & resulting building defects & violations for YEARS:

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@17993rd

2 years

1/3 Our #Slumlord Slavik Gofman has been the subject of no less than 3 #NYC Investigations just w/in the last 2 yrs; 2 of which have already yielded NYC litigation against Gofman for his fraudulent & deceitful Biz practices; illegal unpermitted construction work done w/unlicensed

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@17993rd

2 years

1/3 So @NYC_Buildings continues its efforts to NOT issue violations against #Slumlord Slavik Gofman for demonstrably violative conditions. The list is long. So TA’ll start with this ILLEGAL CONVERSION OF PUBLIC AREAS violation that was brought to the TA’s attention by @NYCHousing

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@17993rd

7 months

Right to counsel is critical. Without counsel, #tenants get bull dozed by unscrupulous landlord & their unscrupulous lawyers & treated like crap by most judges, especially in the NYS Supreme Court where Judges feel above it all & rather not deal with L&T issues to begin with.

Right to Counsel NYC Coalition #EvictionFreeNY

@RTCNYC

7 months

“Losing one’s home is one of the most devastating consequences of judgments in our civil court system.” Read the City Bar’s appeal to the @GovKathyHochul @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie here: #EvictionFreeNY #StopEvictions

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@17993rd

1 year

Did y’all think #DOB was gonna ask Qs & finally help facilitate Inspection of Spalling bricks, deteriorating mortar, etc. @ 179 Facade @ 4th Exposure? Nah, @NYC_Buildings @HeyNowJO couldn’t be bothered to p/up 📞 & call the Marshal who referred it to DOB Facade Unit #Davenport

NYC Buildings

@NYC_Buildings

1 year

@17993rd @NYC_DOI @ManhattanDA @NewYorkStateIG @BilldeBlasio @scottmstringer @RepJerryNadler @SenSchumer @NewYorkFBI @LegalAidNYC @JulieMenin Good afternoon, and thank you for connecting with us. Please send us a DM so we can ask a few questions to further assist with this matter.

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@17993rd

2 years

So disheartening @nytimes is so addicted to its real estate revenue “Ad buys,” that the so-called 📰“of record” has ignored the biggest #NY #Housing Story out of fear of losing Ad💰& so has failed to do this sort of in-depth Pulitzer Prize worthy reporting

More than 60,000 Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are Now Vacant — and Tenant Advocates Say Landlords Are...

The number of empty regulated apartments nearly doubled between 2020 and 2021, a state memo obtained by THE CITY shows.

www.thecity.nyc

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@17993rd

9 months

@mi34779646 @117127TA @NYCComptroller @ManhattanDA @JulieMenin @NYCHousing @AdolfoCarrion @NYC_Buildings 1/3 Remember when @NYCHousing Inspector Rodriguez prematurely discharged #Slumlord Slavik Gofman from #HPD 's AEP despite MYRIAD open violations b/c our criminal slumlord gave his "word" he'd legalize illegal lofts, cure mold & CRACKED BLDG JOIST, repair inoperable windows, etc.?

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@17993rd

1 year

Our Anti-Tenant, Anti-Rent Stabilization, Anti-Enforcement of Housing, Building & Environmental Regulations a.k.a. “City of Yes” “Mayor” is exposed in the NY Times:

Mayor Compares Housing Activist, Whose Family Fled Holocaust, to Plantation Owner (Published 2023)

Mayor Eric Adams criticized the woman, whose family left Germany in the 1930s, after she questioned him about back-to-back rent increases.

www.nytimes.com

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@17993rd

3 years

Just the other side of the glass bowl light fixture that’s filled with the raw sewage that gushed from our building’s ceiling last night (for about the gazillionth time) you can see where the ceiling has collapsed over and over again from this same chronic defect @nyc311 @NYCMOPT

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@17993rd

2 years

So our notorious #slumlord Slavik Gofman has unlawfully & belligerently annexed from the NY Rent Regulations, no less than 7 rent stabilized apartments in our building & @NYSHCR has facilitated this RSL theft by willfully turning a blind eye to his brazen fraudulent scheme. #UES

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@17993rd

3 years

👇👇🏽👇🏻Myriad empty buildings beg to be repurposed. Ripping out a green space gem is bizarrely misguided & frankly quite mean spirited as @NYCHousing knows how beloved a space it is. Let’s reclaim & convert extant buildings; let neighborhoods inform plans, not the other way around

Assemblymember Robert Carroll

@Bobby4Brooklyn

3 years

Destroying green space & a beloved community garden is not how you build affordable or quality neighborhoods. We can and should have both. The city should make the Elizabeth Street Garden a public park and find a new space for the Haven Green development.

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@17993rd

1 year

So @NYCHousing has inspected all 60,000+ VACANT RENT STABILIZED APTS? No. It has not. Instead, #HPD just serves up another word salad. Always with the word salads, rather than doing the hard work to inspect, reclaim & bring to market >SIXTY THOUSAND EMPTY RENT STABILIZED NY APTS.

NYC Housing

@NYCHousing

1 year

@NYCCouncil @CenterOnHOME When we drill down to rent stabilized units that had been vacant, off market for 12+ months, were in need of repairs, and had low legal rent (<$1,000), there were just 2,477 units. That’s less than ¼ of 1% all rent stabilized units in NYC.

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@17993rd

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When a #NY court enables a criminal #slumlord to harass, abuse & cheat a #RentStabilizedTenant . #Tenants #TenantsRights #RTC #RSLtheft #StraightUpFraud #JudicialComplicity #NotAGoodLookForTheCourt #ProsecuteCorruptLandlords #ProsecuteCorruptLawyers #ProsecutePublicCorruption

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@17993rd

2 years

For 3 yrs #Slumlord Slavik Gofman has failed to cure dangerously violative #Fire Exit door to our roof (@ bulkhead) for which @NYCHousing has issued multiple violations. Last time violation was issued, Gofman’s “remedy” was to lash shut the door w/a #BungeeCord Cc: @FDNY @NYCMOPT

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@17993rd

2 years

How’s about a #Moratorium on ANY kind of #NYC development until @GovKathyHochul @rvisnauskas order inspection of the > 60,000 rent stabilized apartments being held ransom by greedy #landlords . To determine how much #housing is needed, do an inventory.

Brooklyn housing project killed on cusp of Council vote

Plaza Realty’s plan to develop 231 apartments in Brooklyn died just two days before the City Council was scheduled to vote on the developer’s rezoning application. In a letter Tuesday effectively...

therealdeal.com

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@17993rd

11 months

#DOB claims it can’t randomly inspect bldgs. Tragically, we all know @NYC_Buildings doesn’t even inspect bldgs with OUTSTANDING FACADE VIOLATIONS WHEN SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED This is about more than the # of City Inspectors. @NYCComptroller @ManhattanDA

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@Gothamist

11 months

“For years we reported, we made so many reports … because the walls inside, I wish I could show you pictures, were just crumbling,” said one resident of the Bronx building that partially collapsed yesterday.

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@17993rd

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@mi34779646 @117127TA @NYCComptroller @ManhattanDA @JulieMenin @NYCHousing @AdolfoCarrion @NYC_Buildings 3/3 more mold, uncured leaks, no access to Fire Escape. But in the City of Yes, it's ALL GOOD cuz @NYCHousing 's Biz is servicing criminal slumlords. #HPD 's corruption & incompetency is why BUILDINGS COLLAPSE. @AdolfoCarrion doesn't work for the people of #NYC . He works for #REBNY

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@17993rd

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@mi34779646 @117127TA @NYCComptroller @ManhattanDA @JulieMenin @NYCHousing @AdolfoCarrion @NYC_Buildings 2/3 Well, OF COURSE, 8 months later, #Slumlord Gofman has done NONE of those things. BUT, @AdolfoCarrion 's @NYCHousing is poised to give our bldg a "fair" report even tho NONE of those repairs have been made & conditions have deteriorated. Illegal conversions, CRACKED BLDG JOISTS

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