Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
On Thursday, Con Ed inspected 199 E. Third St., the building on the NW corner at Avenue B.
The posted notice states that workers found multiple leaks and shut off the gas to the entire building.
Unfortunately, as we've seen, these situations take a while to resolve. So, for now, residential tenants of this Steve Croman-owned building will need to use hot plates to cook and get used to cold showers.
Meanwhile, Asian Taste on the corner will be closed for the foreseeable future...
Previously on EV Grieve:
5 comments:
Typical Croman building . Tenants please work together and work with Cooper Square Committee. They are excellent advocates who work with residents against predatory real estate developer tactics.
Whenever a gas leak occurs in a residential building, the landlord's own personal gas should be cut off until the situation is remedied (at least to the point of notifying ConEd for reinspection). That should light a (non-explosive) fire under their rears.
If any of the tenants are rent-stabilized, they should file a complaint with DHCR for a rent reduction during the period with no gas.
I hope Croman enjoyed his time in jail. I hope he goes back.
The real delays occur after the work is done, in trying to get both city agencies and Con Ed to return. Even the city is quicker than Con Ed. You can have DOB go-ahead, and it still takes forever to get Con Ed to turn it back on.
I've worked in buildings where the gas was shut off due to a leak and it took months to remedy.
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