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East Village Tenants Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ to Alleged Predatory Landlord

Bedford & Bowery, Nicole Disser, November 25, 2015

original: http://bedfordandbowery.com/2015/11/east-village-tenants-say-enough-is-enough-to-alleged-predatory-landlord/

Karen Platt has been channeling her frustrations through the satisfying scrape of chalk across concrete. After years of living with dust, noise, and health hazards caused by construction, repeated and seemingly relentless service cut-offs, and what she says are intentional moves by her landlord to clear her (and other rent-regulated tenants like her) out of her longtime home at 522 East 5th Street in the East Village, Platt’s sidewalk messages reveal she has reached a breaking point: “Lack of services is harassment” and “Enough is Enough.”

As Platt explained to B+B, since Icon Realty Management bought her building, things took a turn for the miserable. “I’ve lived in New York my whole life and I’ve never, ever been treated like this,” she said.

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