A Brooklyn mother said her new apartment in East New York is in desperate need of repairs \u2013 but building management is ignoring her cry for help. <\/p>\n
Cheyanne Babb-Jackson was supposed to move in on Friday, but said, at this point, she\u2019d rather move on. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf this is how the building is, I don\u2019t even think I want to be in this building,\u201d said Babb-Jackson. <\/p>\n
She told News 12 there was no way she could bring her 2-year-old son into the apartment building located on East New York Avenue. <\/p>\n
There was spotting and staining on the floorboards, one corner of a bedroom wall was crumbling and the ceiling was leaking. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as I walked in, I saw a puddle on the floor, and it was just the smell of mold and mildew,\u201d said Babb-Jackson. <\/p>\n
She said she viewed the apartment twice before, and everything was fine \u2013 but then Babb-Jackson picked up her new keys on Wednesday from the management group, Reside New York. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like they didn\u2019t know we were coming,\u201d said Babb-Jackson. <\/p>\n
The paraeducator said she has been living in a shelter for nine months, received a voucher from Housing Connect, and got the new apartment through the housing lottery. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was ready to cook Easter dinner for my family in our new apartment,\u201d said Babb-Jackson. <\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to Reside New York on Friday for comment, but received an automated message that the office was closed for another week due to the Jewish holiday. <\/p>\n
\u201cNow we just have to sit in the shelter waiting because they don\u2019t come back until [April] 10,\u201d said Babb-Jackson. <\/p>\n
Babb-Jackson said her messages to management have gone unanswered. <\/p>\n
While News 12 was in the apartment, a maintenance worker showed up. He couldn\u2019t tell how long the repairs would take or if a temporary apartment was available. <\/p>\n
News 12 is waiting for a response from management. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn mother said her new apartment in East New York is in desperate need of repairs \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8372,27544,2907,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-185061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-east-new-york","12":"tag-homeless-shelter","13":"tag-housing","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185061","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=185061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}