For months, residents in an East New York apartment building say they\u2019ve been climbing up flights of stairs everyday\u2014 not by choice, but because their elevators haven\u2019t worked.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just an inconvenience, but tenants say it\u2019s dangerous, and the elderly and disabled are suffering the most.<\/p>\n
For Desiree Dingle and Desiree Fair, every trip home is a struggle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m asthmatic,\u201d said Dingle. \u201cEvery day it\u2019s taking me 45 minutes to get somewhere. I’m on the fifth floor. It\u2019s not five flights. It’s nine flights.\u201d <\/p>\n
Back in December \u2013 a flood inside this six-story building led to one of the elevators being out of service for months.<\/p>\n
The other elevator broke at least a year before that. <\/p>\n
To make matters worse, the route they have to take every day to get to their apartments is no easy trek. <\/p>\n
As they exit the lobby of the building, it\u2019s a walk around the block to the only doors leading to the staircase. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur stairwells lead to the outside of the building,\u201d said Fair. \u201cThey don\u2019t lead inside.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI have not done laundry in a month,\u201d said Dingle. \u201cI have not done any big grocery shop. I’m picking up little things here and there because I can’t carry, like I would like. This is just ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tenants tell News 12 they\u2019ve put in several 311 complaints about the broken elevators. Somehow the tickets end up being closed by the city without an actual fix. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf this was your mother, your grandmother, who had to deal with having to climb several flights of stairs to get to her apartment\u2013 how would you feel? I would think that this would be resolved quickly,” said Fair.<\/p>\n
In the lobby also sits dozens of packages too heavy to carry up the stairs and a laundry room now underutilized.<\/p>\n
Signs posted only a few weeks ago tell tenants the repairs won\u2019t be a quick process, but they fail to say how long it will actually take.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to building management for answers but has not yet received a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For months, residents in an East New York apartment building say they\u2019ve been climbing up flights of stairs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[21710,4284,23399,98,100,99,8372,4282,4283,9,24,63,3738],"class_list":{"0":"post-138386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-apartment-conditions","9":"tag-broken-elevator","10":"tag-broken-elevators","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-east-new-york","15":"tag-elevator","16":"tag-elevator-out","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-taking-action"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138386","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=138386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}