For the past two days, jugs of water have been Michelle Campbell\u2019s only source of drinking water and water to cook a meal within her building at 2342 Atlantic Ave.<\/p>\n
“How long will that last? I have my 80-year-old dad in there who has dementia and everything else, and I need to cook for him to eat!” Campbell said.<\/p>\n
The building has been without heat, forcing Michelle and her family to take turns sleeping on a living room cot under a heater they had to buy themselves, a frustrating repeat of last year\u2019s ordeal.<\/p>\n
“That is what they did last year; whole almost a year without heat, hot water, and gas – can you imagine?!” Campbell added.<\/p>\n
Campbell isn\u2019t alone in her struggle. Neighbors report that along with the lack of heat and water, rats have become unwelcome residents, chewing through food packaging and cabinets.<\/p>\n
“The rats was bigger than my leg, and like I said, I\u2019m a big woman. I had to get a cat! This don\u2019t make no sense,” said Valerie Smith, another resident.<\/p>\n
The building currently has 80 violations and six open complaints in just one day, prompting residents to call on the city to intervene.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of things going on in this building. We just want help,” said Tywain Govan, a resident.<\/p>\n
In response, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development tells News 12 that “every New Yorker deserves a safe and warm place to call home” and their enforcement team “takes that responsibility extremely seriously.” <\/p>\n
The agency states that it is aware if the issues at 2342 Atlantic Ave. working with the management company to rectify the situation as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past two days, jugs of water have been Michelle Campbell\u2019s only source of drinking water and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[36182,98,100,99,3991,13860,9,24,19701,63,6389,21417],"class_list":["post-114709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-atlantic-avenue","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-heat","tag-hpd","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-no-heat","tag-nyc","tag-rats","tag-space-heater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}