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A former rep for a Manhattan real estate investment firm tops this year’s “worst landlords” list, to be released Thursday by New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
The public advocate’s office annually ranks buildings’ managing agents based on their property holdings’ number of serious, unresolved housing code violations logged by city inspectors.
David Schorr managed 330 apartments across 17 buildings on behalf of Sugar Hill Capital Partners. In a monthly sampling between December 2020 and November 2021, those buildings together racked up an average of 1,442 open housing code violations, 418 of which were Type C violations – or deemed “immediately hazardous” by city inspectors.
One of the Sugar Hill properties, at 375 W. 126th Street, a 10-unit building in Harlem, currently has 43 open violations — nearly half of them Class C, the most serious category. They range from roach and mice infestations to violations related to lead paint and mold, city records show.
Second on the list is Abdul Khan, with 1,302 open violations across his dozen buildings in four boroughs, followed by entities affiliated with the nonprofit Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation, or NEBHDCo, whose registered managing agent Nathaniel Montgomergy had 1,192 open violations.
For the fourth year in a row, the public advocate has given dishonorable mention to the New York City Housing Authority, whose 176,000 apartments are not subject to housing code enforcement but remain under watch of a federal monitor due to dangerous and decaying conditions.
For the fourth year in a row, the public advocate has given dishonorable mention to the New York City Housing Authority, whose 176,000 apartments are not subject to housing code enforcement but remain under watch of a federal monitor due to dangerous and decaying conditions.
I could have told you this 50 years ago.
This mia culpa is shared by all people on housing grounds.
Contractor ,housing employee, tenant.
It is easy to blame workers for decay and deterioration.
What makes it hard to believe decay and deterioration
is solely in the hands of employees and contractors
are the mounds of filth that generations of tenants have piled
on over the years just to get to all the decay and deterioration!
Entry doors do not rip off hinges by themselves.
Elevators aren't set on fire by themselves.
Mailboxes aren't ripped off the walls by themselves.
Glass does not shatter on its own.
Vestibules,stair wells,rooftops and landings do not urinate
or spread feces on themselves.
Graffiti does not suddenly materialize on the property entirety.
Need I go on?
How many times do you think a contractor will continue to repair
something that is broken over and over and over.
How many times will a worker mop up urine day in and day out
without feeling disheartened and finally not caring?
It will require everybody to fix the problem.
Until then...............it's just a money pit.
For the fourth year in a row, the public advocate has given dishonorable mention to the New York City Housing Authority, whose 176,000 apartments are not subject to housing code enforcement but remain under watch of a federal monitor due to dangerous and decaying conditions.
I could have told you this 50 years ago.
This mia culpa is shared by all people on housing grounds.
Contractor ,housing employee, tenant.
It is easy to blame workers for decay and deterioration.
What makes it hard to believe decay and deterioration
is solely in the hands of employees and contractors
are the mounds of filth that generations of tenants have piled
on over the years just to get to all the decay and deterioration!
Entry doors do not rip off hinges by themselves.
Elevators aren't set on fire by themselves.
Mailboxes aren't ripped off the walls by themselves.
Glass does not shatter on its own.
Vestibules,stair wells,rooftops and landings do not urinate
or spread feces on themselves.
Graffiti does not suddenly materialize on the property entirety.
Need I go on?
How many times do you think a contractor will continue to repair
something that is broken over and over and over.
How many times will a worker mop up urine day in and day out
without feeling disheartened and finally not caring?
It will require everybody to fix the problem.
Until then...............it's just a money pit.
All those problems you mentioned are mental
Let's talk about the old heating, plumbing, & electrical systems
People can stop vandalizing things, that won't be worth anything when there's still no hot water or when a pipe bursts
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For the fourth year in a row, the public advocate has given dishonorable mention to the New York City Housing Authority, whose 176,000 apartments are not subject to housing code enforcement but remain under watch of a federal monitor due to dangerous and decaying conditions.
I could have told you this 50 years ago.
This mia culpa is shared by all people on housing grounds.
Contractor ,housing employee, tenant.
It is easy to blame workers for decay and deterioration.
What makes it hard to believe decay and deterioration
is solely in the hands of employees and contractors
are the mounds of filth that generations of tenants have piled
on over the years just to get to all the decay and deterioration!
Entry doors do not rip off hinges by themselves.
Elevators aren't set on fire by themselves.
Mailboxes aren't ripped off the walls by themselves. Glass does not shatter on its own. I actually had a window shatter on it's own at my house
Vestibules,stair wells,rooftops and landings do not urinate
or spread feces on themselves.
Graffiti does not suddenly materialize on the property entirety.
Need I go on?
How many times do you think a contractor will continue to repair
something that is broken over and over and over.
How many times will a worker mop up urine day in and day out
without feeling disheartened and finally not caring?
It will require everybody to fix the problem.
Until then...............it's just a money pit.
For the fourth year in a row, the public advocate has given dishonorable mention to the New York City Housing Authority, whose 176,000 apartments are not subject to housing code enforcement but remain under watch of a federal monitor due to dangerous and decaying conditions.
I could have told you this 50 years ago.
This mia culpa is shared by all people on housing grounds.
Contractor ,housing employee, tenant.
It is easy to blame workers for decay and deterioration.
What makes it hard to believe decay and deterioration
is solely in the hands of employees and contractors
are the mounds of filth that generations of tenants have piled
on over the years just to get to all the decay and deterioration!
Entry doors do not rip off hinges by themselves.
Elevators aren't set on fire by themselves.
Mailboxes aren't ripped off the walls by themselves.
Glass does not shatter on its own.
Vestibules,stair wells,rooftops and landings do not urinate
or spread feces on themselves.
Graffiti does not suddenly materialize on the property entirety.
Need I go on?
How many times do you think a contractor will continue to repair
something that is broken over and over and over.
How many times will a worker mop up urine day in and day out
without feeling disheartened and finally not caring?
It will require everybody to fix the problem.
Until then...............it's just a money pit.
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Originally Posted by SeventhFloor
All those problems you mentioned are mental
Let's talk about the old heating, plumbing, & electrical systems
People can stop vandalizing things, that won't be worth anything when there's still no hot water or when a pipe bursts
If they did not have to waste so much resources, finances and manpower fixing the stuff noted by Mr. Retired, maybe, just maybe, the powers that be would be inclined to fix the other stuff. It is a snow ball effect.
But everyone has a choice of where to live. If they don't like it they should move. The United States is huge! Many living in NYCHA don't work or have low paying, seasonal jobs. Those jobs can be found anywhere.
The ones living in NYCHA with 'good paying stable jobs' that have decided to live in this squalor for years, I don't know. That is another story for another day.
Let's talk about the old heating, plumbing, & electrical systems
People can stop vandalizing things, that won't be worth anything when there's still no hot water or when a pipe bursts
I agree
If people think that the answer to no hot water or electricity
is destroying property grounds to send a message
we have a mental problem.
Move mental patients to mental institutions to make way for normal tenants so that normal
workers can dutifully provide the necessary work to return hot water and electricity back to
normal rather than being distracted and forced to focus on all the vandalism that continuously
gets in their way.
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