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Last August, Viola Goodman found her son Robert dead on the bathroom floor of his apartment, which was stiflingly hot. Despite the August heat, the heating system in the building was blasting. Robert Goodman had called his mother earlier to report the blasting radiators and flooding. As his mother waited downstairs in the building's basement waiting for the fire department to arrive and find a steam shut-off valve, her son was upstairs frantically trying to mop up a quarter inch of water on the apartment's floor as plumbing was springing leaks. When the steam was finally shut off, Viola Goodman returned upstairs and found her dead son. A city medical examiner determined that his body temperature was 112 degrees after he died.
The New York Post reports that Goodman is suing her landlord Paul Sklar and management company S.W. Realty for not properly maintaining the Upper East Side building on 1st Ave. and causing her son's death. Oddly, Viola Goodman and her brother are the owners of the building her son died in. Paul Sklar was appointed the receiver of the building by a Manhattan court after squabbling between Goodman and her brother necessitated a third party to take charge of the property.
Viola Goodman claims that repeated complaints about leaks and blasted heat were ignored by Sklar and the management company. Sklar counters that the poor condition of the plumbing and heating is the result of poor maintenance by the Goodman family itself prior to the building fell into receivership. He also contends that Viola Goodman, who owns a lingerie shop on the ground floor, often refused to let maintenance workers have access to the building to make repairs.
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Sounds like a Darwin awards cadidate to me: New Yorker, too stupid to ventilate room filled with live steam, boils like crawdad.
It was the bathroom, it was in August.
the windows were probably open. I assume you heard what happened last week when a steam pipe burst.
you heartless bastard.
i'm sure she had something to do with it herself. she was part owner of the building and won't let people fix the problems.
"... and won't let people fix the problems."
Says the man she's currently suing. You have no evidence of that being true, please keep that in mind.
Hey #2, heartless bastard #1 here. Perhaps you might want to learn the difference between the 400°F SUPERHEATED STEAM system that ruptured on the ES and the 212°F HOT WATER/ SATURATED STEAM system that is in use in this building. Also note that I did not say just open a window, I said ventilate (remove the steam). Cheers.
why is it that only assholes say "cheers"?
Perhaps because we are English you Yankee fucktard
She owned the building, I fault her. Karma is a b*tch.
What the hell is a "Fucktard" ? I tell you, You Caucasians luv making-up words . As for the heating system . Obviously, The landlord forgot to adjust the thermostat for the summer months . Posted by; "Still Not Amused"
I know Viola and her lingerie store. I occasionally shop there. She looks to be somewhere in her mid- to late-70s. Although she is a great bra-fitter, I always wondered how she has stayed in business in that store all these years. Now it makes sense - she owns the building. I have lived in the neighborhood for over twenty years and she has been there all this time. The storefront has its original curved glass windows, and old-fashioned security gates across its wooden doors. Once inside, you get the feeling you have stepped into a time machine. There are all the old wooden cubbies full of containers where she keeps her stock. She still uses a manual cash register with individual numbers that pop up when she presses the keys.
So, it does not surprise me that she never kept up the maintenance of the building. However, if it was in the hands of a receiver, they should have insisted upon gaining access to make necessary repairs. Else, why have a receiver? I feel sorry for her, to have lost her son that way. She may not have managed things properly, but she wasn't to blame.
Why does one need to go through her first floor store to get to the basement?
She may of owned the building but it's not her who manages the building.
Guest #11, I'm sure you meant to write: "She may have owned the building but it's not she who manages the building."