Monday, December 12, 2016

Handful of Bad Landlords Account for Alarming Number of Violations in NYC's Homeless Cluster Sites


A New York Daily News Exclusive


A small group of bad actor landlords housing homeless families accounts for an alarming number of dangerous health and safety code violations, the city controller has found.

When shelters fill up, the city places families in private apartments known as cluster sites that are notoriously dangerous. Most are in the Bronx.

After the death of two infants in one of these apartments last week, Controller Scott Stringer found the worst apartments happened to be in buildings owned by a fairly small group of landlords.

That includes Moshe Piller, owner of the Hunts Point Ave. building in the Bronx where two children died when a faulty radiator spewed steam into their bedroom. 

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