Tenants in Kensington are raising safety concerns about the two elevators in their 17-story building, calling it a \u201ctragedy waiting to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is extremely rare to go one day without the elevators being broken,\u201d said Molly Dobkin, a tenant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a little bit of a hair-raising ride on the elevators because you don\u2019t know what floor it\u2019s going to stop on,\u201d said Kristin Mathis, another tenant. \u201cIt\u2019s making these loud noises.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tenants said more than 300 people live in the complex on Ocean Parkway \u2013 some of whom are older adults, have disabilities or have small children.<\/p>\n
Emma Manfredi, who lives in the building, said there was an incident this week, where people crammed into one working elevator.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doorman basically had to start operating like a bouncer,\u201d said Manfredi. \u201cHe had to stop people from getting on and control how many people went up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tenants said people get stuck inside, firefighters respond frequently and elevator mechanics make daily repairs.
\n\t\u201cWe know them now personally because they\u2019re here so often,\u201d said Manfredi.<\/p>\n
When News 12 visited the building, one elevator worked but made loud noises between floors.<\/p>\n
Tenants said the other elevator was repaired right before News 12 arrived.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe they\u2019ll fix the elevator in the morning, but in two [or] three hours, it\u2019s broken again,\u201d said Manfredi.<\/p>\n
A Department of Buildings spokesperson said they sent an inspector after News 12 left, and both elevators were working, but they\u2019re issuing a summons because one stopped on every floor.<\/p>\n
The complex has had at least 15 elevator violations in the past four years, according to the DOB.<\/p>\n
A building employee told News 12 that the elevators date back to 1964, replacement parts are hard to find, and they\u2019re working to replace the entire system.<\/p>\n
News 12 asked the super, who only identified as Peter, about the issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot fix this, OK?\u201d said Peter. \u201cIf you have any questions, please contact the office.\u201d<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to Weinreb Management for comment, but the office was closed due to the Passover holiday. News 12 is still waiting for a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tenants in Kensington are raising safety concerns about the two elevators in their 17-story building, calling it a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[23399,98,100,99,7126,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-184608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-broken-elevators","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-kensington","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184608","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=184608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}