Monday, December 13, 2010

My Life In Hell

I have a complicated housing situation. I'm living in 1 of 3 buildings that interconnect. Each building has 16 apartments. The buildings are about 100 years old. This is in an ultra orthodox chasidic jewish community Borough Park Brooklyn. The owner- although at this point he claims not to be-is a rabbi who bought and renovated the buildings around 1973. There was a fire in one of the buildings in 1969. What I didn't know until recently was he, they got a tax exemption/abatement J-51. He did a miserable job the buildings never held up. I lost or had my NYCHA section 8 subsidy suspended in 1991 because of his refusal to fix. He completed the renovations in Feb. 1975. The subsidy was reinstated only after superficial repairs managed to make by self. In Nov. of 2002 the tenants were sent a notice telling us the buildings were under new management. This was the beginning of a nightmare.

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