Bushwick | Landlord Uses Cat Carcasses to Drive Tenants Out

Good lord! NYC is rife with stories about tenants putting up with eccentric landlords. But this is downright shameful, or simply criminal. To hell with Heskel Properties, who tried everything they could to force the tenants out of the rent-stabilized apartment at 64 Troutman Street, which is 8 blocks or so from me(!). Deplorable.

Should you decide to go to their offices and urinate in a secluded corner of the office...


64 Troutman. Debris from the stairway (between 1st and 2nd floor) that was ripped out and replace with plywood stairs, to the surprise of the unwitting tenants.



This has been an ongoing thing. When asked in April about the stench emanating from the vacant first floor apartment where the stairway debris had been dumped, Mr. Heskel--the supposed building manager--said, “Nobody has called me about a smell. What do you mean it smells? I closed the door. What’s the big deal?”

Hats off to Kennedy Rivera and the Bushwick Housing Independence for helping these tenants--and other Bushwick tenants--stand up for their housing rights.