ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -An emergency assembly was referred to as on Friday, December 1, by Parkview Apartments Tenant Association President, Diane Deitz. The residents focusing this time on their neighbors and tenants of the constructing who’ve died within the final two weeks, in keeping with Deitz.
“We have recently had nine deaths here in a little over two weeks. On top of it, we have mold in the building.”
The tenants at tonight’s assembly have been additionally complaining of rodents, pests, and water entry since final 12 months. Deitz herself has been out and in of the hospital.
“Multiple tenants who have had blood tests come back with mold in their blood. I’d say the past four times it was because of that. That was in two months.”
Back in June, NEWS10’s Anthony Krolikowski went contained in the residences to see the damages with code enforcement whereas being managed by Commercial Residential Management. Those similar residences at the moment are managed by the corporate Wingate.
“They’ve had multiple code violations here and this is a vulnerable population. They need a landlord who’s both conscious of that vulnerable community and who’s willing to actually do the work,” said Attorney At Law, Adriel Colón-Casiano.
In February, pipes froze and burst, flooding the primary electrical room. Dozens have been evacuated to a close-by lodge. Tenants say they’re nonetheless apprehensive about the identical points.
“It’s the first day of December. This building has flooded in the past multiple times when it’s cold and miserable out. It very well could happen again,” defined Tenant Organizing Coordinator at United Tenants of Albany, Marco Flagg.
NEWS10 has reached out to the Albany County Health Department which says they weren’t conscious of the deaths. Wingate has but to reply to the state of affairs.
