{"id":132823,"date":"2026-02-13T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:46:22","slug":"news-12-westchester-residents-of-locust-hill-apartment-report-deteriorating-conditions-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132823\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Residents of Locust Hill Apartment report deteriorating conditions inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The building is located at 15 Locust Hill Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\tResidents say they&#8217;re plagued with unhoused people sleeping in the building, drug use in the lobby and visible cockroaches and rodents running amuck.<\/p>\n<p>\tFour residents told News 12 there persistent steam-like substance coming from the hallway.<\/p>\n<p>\tThey provided a number for management who says there was a ruptured steam line which leaked steam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I tell them, &#8216;Hey, there&#8217;s no hot water. There&#8217;s a fire..&#8217;They will never call back. Ever. You know? It&#8217;s not fair. I got two small children under 18. It&#8217;s freezing,&#8221; said resident Loretta Durham, who has lived in the apartment for around years.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYonkers Fire officials say they were called to the small rubbish fire Monday evening but also noticed heavy amounts of water flowing from the building.<\/p>\n<p>\tThere were many pipes broken and frozen according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8220;We have frozen pipes and the reason why you saw open ceilings or something is because they were diagnosing&#8230;had to fix some pipes already. They&#8217;re finishing up with another steam leak that they have and after that, everything will be repaired,&#8221; said building manager and owner, Mark Schik.<\/p>\n<p>\tSchik says heat and hot water was restored, but residents said on Thursday night that that is not the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The building is located at 15 Locust Hill Avenue. Residents say they&#8217;re plagued with unhoused people sleeping in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[21710,128,9,24,19701,31384,63,129,131,130,3048],"class_list":{"0":"post-132823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-apartment-conditions","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-no-heat","13":"tag-no-hot-water","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-the-bronx","16":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","17":"tag-the-bronx-news","18":"tag-yonkers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132823","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=132823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}