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 Landlord Leaves Tenants In The Cold, So They Turn the Heat Up On Him

Tenants of a Bronx apartment building are filing a lawsuit in order to force their landlord to clean up their building.

Seventy people who call 1849 Sedgwick Avenue home, want to remove their current landlord, Mario Milevoi, and have the building’s ownership transferred to an independent administrator.

It’s the first such law suit in the Bronx in three years.

The tenants say there are more than 400 code violations in the 15-apartment building, including holes in the ceiling, broken windows, rodent infestations, and water damage.

But they say the biggest problem is no heat.

Tenants claim Milevoi tried to patch the problem when he found out they were taking him to court.

“He decided that he’s gonna play the game of giving us a little hot water now and then and a little heat and then he would turn it off and we can’t live like that,” said Morris Heights Tenants Association president Eugenie White.

SOURCE: NY1.com

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Political ‘Bill’ Bound To Force Rent To Go Up 

Rents are going to rise unless officials undo a new policy for taxing property owners, the city’s top real estate assessor said yesterday.

The new method, which began in January, shifts the bulk of the city’s property tax burden onto affordable multiunit dwellings in the outer boroughs, according to David Moog, who is also president of the assessors union.

“Overall, the boroughs and the poorer areas got soaked, while the more affluent areas were cut a break,” Moog said.

He testified before the City Council yesterday that the taxes on buildings of 11 units or more in the Bronx went up by more than 50 percent, and in Queens by more than 40 percent.

Brooklyn and Manhattan above 96th Street saw a similar rise in values.

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