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Meet 87-year-old Anna Reyneso, a Washington Heights resident who, when she needs to use the bathroom at night, must awaken her 50-year-old daughter to guide her by flashlight to a vacant apartment down the hall. That’s because her landlord, Dorothea Levine, sent contractors in January to rip out Reyneso’s bathroom toilet, tub, floors and walls--a harassment tactic the Daily News says is part of an ongoing battle over the 54-unit, rent-stabilized building's future. Three other tenants had their bathrooms removed, and the building has so many violations the city has taken the rare step of suing Levine to take over the building. Of course, two can play at that game: landlords are suing the city right back in order to stop the recently-passed Tenant Protection Act.
City Sues for Control of Decrepit Heights Apartment Building
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If ever there was a case for eminent domain, this is it. Just take the building from the loser landlord. The best part would be that since she reduced the value of the building with all this destruction and negligence, the city would have to pay her much less for it. "Here's $10 for the building, Mrs. Levine. Now get the hell out."
The city is no better than these predatory land lords they should go to jail PERIOD.
ahhh, the ole rip out essential items from an apartment trick.
the oldest trick in the book. just like leaving locks unfixed and elevators.
There has to be a time limit on how long a landlord can find excuses for stuff like this and simply have their building taken over by the city. There should be no long suing process. Just take over the building!
The tenants should have formed an escrow in which they put all their rent so that it isn't wasted on their landlord, and got a lawyer. I hope they're getting legal advice. At least they've been clever enough to go to the press.
This landlord should have all of her property and assets taken. People like this do not deserve to have anything. There should be some kind of emergency action that the city can take in this kind of situation.
Dorothea Levine should go to jail. It should NOT take this long to stop her torturing her tenants.
exactly! ^
disgusting.
"If ever there was a case for eminent domain, this is it. Just take the building from the loser landlord."
Oh, but by forcing the landlord to charge only what they tell him to charge, the city has taken the building from him in any meaningful way. Which is why he's such a shit landlord.
Despicable landlords behave like this and they think that their point of view will be acknowleged by anyone? #1 has it just perfectly: seize these properties and disenfranchise the lousy landlords.