179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

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 Buil...

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 buildin...

On January 17, 1996, Landlord Slavik Gofman added to his real estate portfolio, 179 East 93rd Street NYC 10128, the historic childhood home of the Marx Brothers; a tenement, fully subject to New York's Rent Regulations.  But make no mistake. Landlord Slavik Gofman was not about to let the fact that 179 East 93rd Street is a rent regulated building interfere with his plan to unlawfully capitalize on his new acquisition. Quite to the contrary, Landlord Slavik Gofman bought 179 East 93rd Street with no intention of complying with New York's Rent Regulations or with the NYC Building Code for that matter. See, June 16, 2021 screenshot reflecting 124 open violations against Landlord Slavik Gofman's 179 East 93rd Street property issued by the NYC Department of Housing, Preservation & Development (HPD).  Since the get-go, Gofman's plan has been to ignore the Rent Stabilized status of the apartments he purchased. For Gofman truly does not believe the law applies to him. No...

Ever since he added 179 East 93rd Street - the historic childhood home of the Marx Brothers - to his NYC real estate portfolio, Landlord Slavik Gofman has and continues to engage in an ongoing fraudulent scheme to unlawfully deregulate Rent Control and Rent Stabilized apartments throughout the building. When Gofman bought 179 East 93rd Street on January 17, 1996, every apartment in the building was regulated by the New York State Division of Homes & Community Renewal (DHCR). Some of the apartments were Rent Control and others were Rent Stabilized.  But, as Gofman's goal was and still is to deregulate 179 East 93rd Street apartments, each time a legacy tenant  (a tenant who was living at 179E93 when Gofman bought the building) moves out, Gofman either files a false rent registration at DHCR (e.g., sometimes doubling the rent, sometimes tripling the rent, etc.) or, in other cases, Gofman simply stops registering the Regulated apartment with the DHCR all together.  Acc...