Residents at Rutland Plaza in East Flatbush tell News 12 the elevators haven’t been working in their buildings.
Bibiana Mancero is on crutches and says taking the stairs is a challenge.
“I feel trapped I feel like I’m in jail. Literally, I feel like I’m in jail,” said Mancero.
Residents say the elevators haven’t been working for weeks and some of them even months.
Cynthia Hammond lives on the sixth floor and says it’s been a struggle.
“I have a disability with my knees, severe arthritis. It’s not a good feeling for me to have to walk all of these steps and walk back up. It’s scary to me to know that if any one of the tenants had to have any type of emergency happen, how do we get emergency services up to the sixth and ninth floor or any given floor to help with tenants,” said Hammond.
“Now I have to be afraid because I’ll call my son to come in and make sure that I get to my apartment safe,” said Walters.
“It’s sad. It’s like like there is like abandonment. Nobody’s interested in Rutland Plaza,” said Walters.
News 12 spoke with the management company who says it’s working on the elevators and hopes to get them up and running as soon as possible. When asked how they’d accommodate people in the meantime, they said they didn’t want to comment.