My Life In Hell

We were told to get all of our belongings out of the storage area of the basement. The case was taken up by DHCR, but after 3 years they decided we didn't have a case because we weren't rent controlled or stabilized. I didn't know anything beyond having a superficial knowledge of the history of rent control/rent stabilization, or how common a J-51 tax exemption/abatement is. The tenant who started the process has since bailed as soon as her offspring was married off, so she is in better circumstances compared to me. There are two other tenants beside me left, one is the owners niece and her family living in my building the other is I believe also related to the owner and living in the first building with their family.Why they were allowed to remain I don't know. During the summer he stopped giving hot water, he only resumed temporarily during the high holy days of the jewish holidays. Then about two and a half months ago stopped giving hot water, and never started to give heat. The place is basicly an empty shell, no insulation, 1/2 inch plaster board, not ever real plaster. So even when it's warm outside it's at least 10 degrees colder inside.

My Life In Hell

In April of 2004 I lost the subsidy for good, same reason. Then in June of 2004 the tenants recieved a notice telling us the buildings were under new ownership, I later found out this wasn't true. They wanted all the tenants to vacate their apts. One of the tenants went to Assemblyman Dov Hikind and found out they wanted to convert the buildings into a yeshiva. They wouldn't settle for two of the buildings, they insisted on all three. Most of the tenants decided to leave, but some of us decided to fight and signed a petition that the tenant who went to Dov Hikind brought to us. We recieved notices telling us that the super, who had a part interest in the buildings and was later bought out, and his assistant were being let go. We were told to mail the rent instead to a place in Clifton N.J. When we did, a month later when we recieved a rent invoice which was a practice started in Nov. 2002, it was for twice the amount implying that we never paid the rent. I don't know what became of the check. I had to put a stop payment on it, for all the good it did, it was good for only 6 months.

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.

My Life In Hell

My housing situation is a nightmare. It's really a shame there isn't some forum for tenants to be able to speak about their situations and get help and not be censured for whatever reason, even being too detailed about what may be a very complicated situation. A forum or tenantnet for tenants in N.Y.C where you aren't treated like a dimwit. It would be nice if people who blogged actually read someone elses blog once in a while and would care enough to offer some help instead of being so complacent and self absorbed about what ever, basicly nothing that's going on in their own lives compared to the real nightmares some of us are facing.

My Life In Hell

When we were notified back in June of 2004 to vacate our apartments, one of the tenants Ruth Schwartz went to assemblyman Dov Hikind to ask him what we could do, he gave her some kind of petition which Schwartz got a few of us to sign, then took it back to him. By then most of the tenants decided to move out. We went through this charade of a lengthy process to try to keep from being evicted including trying to get Lesser to use the other two buildings; no go he refused. Then the State Department Of Housing And Community Renewal became involved, no good. One by one everyone left. One day while I was out I ran in to Schwartz she just came back from seeing Hikind. She told she left the office in tears, crocodile tears I'm sure. She told me he didn't give a damn. One by one everyone has left, now she has too. She waited just long enough to see her spawn get married the two faced stab you in the back barracuda. She is a gossip monger. They all live on slop gossip. They couldn't go through a single day without talking behind someone's back and spreading rumors.

Ruth and Moshe Schwartz
1555 48th St.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11219

Tele. 717-435-0080

1555 48th St.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11219

Tele. 718-435-0080

My Life In Hell

Well I lost my medicaid. It happened because the recertification process wasn't complete or so they say. It's all thanks to that nit-wit at A.E.H Carla Berkley. Not only that, Mark Hershenson did it to me, he abandoned me and dumped me the way Carla did, on something named Elvira. I'm so sick of them, I'm so sick of everything.