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Residents of an Upper West Side building have been without heat for almost a month, and they’re hoping this indoor cold snap is approaching its conclusion.
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Con Edison told CBS News that they had to turn the heat off to fix a corroded gas pipe in front of the West 74th Street building. While the initial report does not include an address, ILTUWS has identified 236 West 74th Street (between Broadway and West End Avenue) as the effected building.
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The rental building has four stories and either eight or nine apartments, according to Streeteasy, and it was built in 1900.
While the building owner – who public records and media outlets indicate is Peter Hungerford of PH Realty Capital – has offered tenants space heaters, the temperatures are still “unbearable,” and residents don’t see this as an adequate solution. They’ve also been forced to wear multiple layers of clothing.
“If everybody has multiple space heaters on 24 hours, that could overload the electrical system of the building and cause a fire,” resident Karin Deville told CBS News.
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While the building’s cooking gas was turned back on earlier this month, Con Ed has yet to turn on the heat because of “interior work still being done to the plumbing,” per CBS. A final inspection reportedly took place on Tuesday.
According to public records, Hungerford owns or is associated with 37 buildings, including 38 West 75th Street, 54 West 75th Street, 232 West 74th Street and 244 West 74th Street.
Did the owner offer to pay the increased electric bills?
Well that’s good. The governor you OVERWHELMINGLY voted for has banned natural gas hookups so enjoy freezing now. Natural gas is a fossil fuel an is an existential threat to our existence, so the gas should not be turned on – otherwise you’re all a bunch of hypocrites, every last one of you!
WZ:
If ConEd is supplying the heat source for the building, and its not electric, then the failed heat is NG, which is what the article says:
“Con Edison told CBS News that they had to turn the heat off to fix a corroded gas pipe in front of the West 74th Street building.”
There is NO law against repairing old NG connections. Clearly the landlord hasn’t bothered. Nor is there a law against switching to heating oil.
So Hochul’s cluelessness is irrelevant.
what’s yer plan, a-swipe?
William Zeidler is misinformed
Do the residents have to pay rent for the month with no heat in the building?