These NYC Neighborhoods Have The Coldest Apartments: New Report
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — It's been a freezing cold winter for all of us New Yorkers, but for tenants in more than 900 buildings across the city, the chronic lack of heat in their homes has made the season unbearable, according to a new report from Comptroller Brad Lander.In a recent investigation, Lander discovered that 901 buildings in New York City have had persistently inadequate heat over the past seven years, and more than half of those buildings are located in just 10 Community Districts. The neighborhoods with the most concentrated lack of heat are mostly in the Bronx and central Brooklyn, but three upper Manhattan neighborhoods make the list, according to his report released Monday.Manhattan Community District 12 — which includes Washington Heights and Inwood — came in third place, with 60 buildings with chronic heat issues, according to city data, and Community District 10, which includes Central Harlem, came in ninth place with 38 buildings with chronic heat-related issues.The report defines a building with a chronic heat issue as an apartment building where tenants have filed more than five complaints about a lack of heat each winter season for five years. Monday's report is an update to Lander's first version of the report, which was released in 2023, one year after a fire started by a space heater killed 17 tenants in a Bronx apartment tower. “Slowly freezing your tenants is a cold move and landlords who endanger tenant lives should be held to the highest account," Lander said.Despite the city's interventions — like issuing violations to landlords and providing emergency repairs — the lack of heat persists, Lander said.Lander said that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has been effective in addressing heat complaints, but that 20 percent of the 901 buildings have yet to receive any heat-related violations or emergency services.Lander said that, based on the findings of his report, he said the city must escalate its enforcement mechanisms and transfer building ownership from negligent owners to responsible ones, as well as conduct more thorough inspections. "If landlords are unwilling to turn up the heat, HPD must turn up the pressure, take away their ownership and give it to someone who will," Lander said.Read the full report here. For questions and tips, email [email protected] article These NYC Neighborhoods Have The Coldest Apartments: New Report appeared first on Washington Heights-Inwood, NY Patch.
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