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Tenants sue Brooklyn landlord BROOKLYN: en rent-stabilized tenants filed a complaint in Kings County Supreme Court recently alleging their landlord, the Shasho family, has engaged in long-term tenant harassment and illegal housing practices to push tenants out of their apartments in Brooklyn’s gentrifying Prospect-Lefferts Garden neighbourhood. Brooklyn Legal Services filed the complaint in Kings County Supreme Court on behalf of the tenants who are seeking to stop the harassment, nuisance, and illegal practices, force repairs to the building, and seeking civil penalties, attorney’s fees, and punitive damages. The charges include failing to provide heat and hot water, refusing to repair dangerous living conditions, filing baseless eviction proceedings, charging erroneous late fees, repeatedly offering unwanted buyout deals, pushing long-term rent-stabilized tenants out, and converting newly vacant units to Airbnbs. Tenants allege the landlord has even installed separate heating and cooling systems in the Airbnb units while the long-term tenants suffer in the frigid cold. Now tenants, represented by Brooklyn Legal Services’ Tenant Rights Coalition which receives support from the City’s Anti-Harassment and Tenant Protection program, are taking their landlord to court to seek penalties and punitive damages and put a stop to the longterm harassment and illegal housing practices. Brooklyn Legal Services filed the complaint in Kings County Supreme Court on behalf of the tenants who are seeking to stop the harassment, nuisance, and illegal practices, force repairs to the building, and seeking civil penalties, attorney’s fees, and punitive damages. “Sometimes I come home, and the lights don’t come on. In the wintertime, I freeze in my apartment because there’s no heat,” said Digna Doesserie-Mitchel, a tenant of 611 Flatbush Avenue since 2006. “How is the landlord going to fix up these other apartments for Airbnb and not maintain the rest of the building? We live here. We pay our rent just like everyone else. Enough is enough. We deserve better than this.”
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