New York’s Housing and Preservation department says this apartment building has nearly a 1000 open violations.
They’ve repeatedly shut off the heat to folks paying 800 dollars or more a month, and during a cold snap like this one, that can be deadly.
Exavien Saez, 5, was gasping with asthma last week in his heatless Bronx apartment, saying it only goes away when they put the heat back on.
“It’s aggravated by the cold. It was so cold that we had to rush him to the emergency room,” said his mother, Carrie Saez.
“That’s not my problem. I don’t own the building,” he said.
A week later the heat’s back on, at least for now. Exavien’s mom says it won’t last.
“They’ll turn it off in hour. It won’t be on all night,” she said.
Bronx Community Ward 7 District Manger Fernando Tirado got the city to fill the furnace with emergency oil last week, but folks who live here say there are still days when it’s just as cold inside and out.
“I know these people are freezing. Many complaints a week later that they are still freezing,” Tirado said. Read more..
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