She may have saved our lives. On January 28, 2021, NYC Housing, Preservation & Development (HPD) Inspector Feliciano smelled gas in our building, 179 East 93rd Street NYC 10128, while she was here inspecting yet another leak that had gushed through our entry hallway ceiling. A s documented in NY City records, leaks occur chronically in our building; it might be a raw sewage leak, other times a domestic water leak. The substance can vary. But what is consistent is the fact that the leaks at 179 East 93rd Street are chronic. And this time, it was a twofer; A pipe had burst, gushing water so fiercely between the floors that it busted right through our entry hallway ceiling as the smell of gas swelled up around us. The stench of gas was strong and unmistakable. So Inspector Feliciano wasted no time in trying to track down the individuals listed as the responsible parties in an emergency in our building. After calling, with no response, the phone number for the Building Super that'
NYC Dept of Housing, Preservation & Development (HPD) Initiates Comprehensive Litigation Against Landlord Slavik Gofman Regarding the More Than 100 Open NYC HPD Violations at 179 East 93rd Street NYC 10128
The 179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association h as been notified, by Ms. Lois Winters, of the Office of Enforcement & Neighborhood Services, NYC Department of Housing, Preservation & Development (HPD), that on June 15, 2021, NYC HPD initiated comprehensive litigation against Landlord Slavik Gofman regarding the more than 100 open NYC HPD violations at 179 East 93rd Street NYC 10128. The city's goal in bringing this lawsuit against our landlord is to protect the integrity of our home, to enforce the NYC laws that Landlord Slavik Gofman has recklessly ignored for years and to ask the court to grant to the city permission to make the necessary repairs that Landlord Slavik Gofman has, for years, wilfully neglected to cure at 179 East 93rd Street ( some of which building-wide and apartment defects have been unresolved for years and some of which pose immediate hazards to tenants and to the public at large, e.g. bricks falling from the facade which building defect can comprom