Residents of a 19-story Soundview apartment building on Evergreen Avenue say they are fed up after both elevators were out of service for two days, forcing tenants to climb multiple flights of stairs.<\/p>\n
Tenants tell News 12 the elevators in the private building were shut down after a pipe leaked on the roof. Wet floor signs now block the elevator doors, leaving residents with no option but to use the stairs.<\/p>\n
Outside the building, stains believed to be from the leak are frozen along the exterior. A sign posted near the front desk reads, \u201cDue to the extent of the damage, the elevators will remain out of service for several days.\u201d<\/p>\n
For residents on upper floors, the outage has disrupted daily routines.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to cancel our grocery plans,\u201d said 66\u2011year\u2011old Teddy Dukes, who lives on the 18th floor with his wife. He added, \u201cThe building\u2019s falling apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
His wife said she feels management is not prioritizing maintenance issues.<\/p>\n
News 12 attempted to speak with building management but was escorted out by security. Staff said management could not be reached Monday night and advised calling back Tuesday.<\/p>\n
For now, tenants say they are left climbing stair after stair \u2014 or waiting in the lobby until help arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of a 19-story Soundview apartment building on Evergreen Avenue say they are fed up after both elevators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-120938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120938","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=120938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}