Cindy Rodriguez
Cindy Rodriguez has been a staff reporter at WNYC, New York Public Radio since July of 2002. As the station’s urban policy reporter she covers the impacts of poverty on communities in all five boroughs. ...
Tenants Greet a "Slumlord" Watch List
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
New York, NY –
The landlord of a dilapidated building in Washington Heights is coming under fire for seriously neglecting his building. The property is on a new so-called slumlord watchlist created by Public Advocate candidate Bill De Blasio. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports:
REPORTER: Decaying walls, broken windows, and exposed electrical wires are just a few of the problems the tenants say they've been living with for decades.
Marlene Yusebia lives in an apartment with windows that won't close and a gaping hole in a closet. Plus she says she has rats and roaches. The tenant of 20 years says there's no one to complain to:
YUSEBIA: Nobody know who the landlord is here. We only talk to the guy to the super and we say who the landlord here and he say I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
REPORTER: City records show the building is registered to Daniel Hakakian of Virtual Assets.
Calls to Virtual Asset, as well as an attorney listed on property records were never answered. For WNYC, I'm Cindy Rodriguez.
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