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 has 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 compromise the integrity of our home and which building defect poses a danger to tenants) or to demand that Landlord Gofman timely and correctly make the repairs himself in accordance with NYC Code and all applicable safety standards.

According to Ms. Winters, the first court date for the city's legal action against Landlord Slavik Gofman, on behalf of the integrity of our home and the health & safety of the 179 East 93rd Street tenants, and the public at large, is August 2, 2021.

The TA is grateful that the City of NY has taken legal enforcement action to protect our home, health & safety and we hope NYC HPD pursues its litigation with the rigor, circumspection, determination and solemnity it deserves.

In the meantime, we will keep you posted on HPD's progress.

Thank you,

179 East 93rd Street Tenants Association

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