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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development spent more than $4 million this year to maintain 113 buildings that have been all but abandoned by their landlords. These landlords are required to reimburse taxpayers for the work, but until then the city places a lien on the properties, most of which are located in Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Prospect Heights and East New York. Yet despite the emergency repairs, conditions at some of these residences are still utterly appalling. Angelica Jimenez of Bushwick tells the Daily News, "Every night, we have rats in my apartment—big ones! They walk all over the kitchen and that's not nice. I kill them. I have no choice, I can't afford to move." City Councilwoman Diana Reyna sees a pattern, and speculates that landlords in Bushwick are neglecting repairs to drive out low-income residents, thus enabling them to cash in on the neighborhood's proximity to trendy Williamsburg by renting to hipsters.
City Repairs Neglected Buildings, But Rats Remain
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perhaps keeping your apartment clean will reduce it as well
thats not a rat, thats your daugher's baby father's nephew's drug dealer looking for some food
keeping your own apartment clean only does so much, though. i used to have a horrible cockroach infestation because the apartment above mine was filled with them. when the super tore up that apartment to redo it after the tenants moved out, he took the drywall down and the inside was completely covered and crawling, floor to ceiling, with freakin cockroaches.
once he was able to get rid of that infestation, lo and behold, our apartment totally cleared up.
Hipsters = rats
Why doesn't the city offer the buildings to the residents so they can create their own co-op?
The city should by cats to prowl those buildings
The greatest natural rat traps in the world!
@ Outter Burrougher
*shudder*
so much hate for gregor samsa & fievel.
The picture is kinda blurry: I'm sure I can make out GW Bush but is that other rat Dick Cheney?
Hard to tell cause all you American War Criminals look alike!.