Restaurant owners in East Flatbush say they\u2019ve been forced to shut their doors – not because of a lack of customers, but because their landlord refuses to address issues in the building, such as flooding, mold and even rats in the building.<\/p>\n
Gayeth Alleyne has to enter her own restaurant by standing on a crate, surrounded by contaminated water.<\/p>\n
GG\u2019s House of Cookup Bar & Grill, a place that was once filled with food and customers, now sits empty and is forced to shut down for weeks at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been going on since last year June, said Alleyne, who owns GG\u2019s House of Cookup. \u201cWe have to keep cleaning up just to keep the business going. It’s unfair. It keeps happening over and over.<\/p>\n
Her frustration began only a year after she and her husband opened and invested thousands in renovations \u2014all for a defective sewage line inside the building she rents from, to turn her business into a health hazard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flooding water leaves behind mold, a foul smell, and even rats scurrying around every night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes the water comes from the apartments up at the top,\u201d said Alleyne, as she showed feces in the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s not feces,\u201d said Dryck Alleyne, her husband, \u201cthen it\u2019s tampons, it\u2019s toilet tissue.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Multiple calls to the landlord go without resolution. The restaurant owners say that since opening, there have been about three changes to building management.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Each of them has placed the blame on the restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo help,\u201d said Alleyne. \u201cThis is not right. After a year and a few months, they try to push everybody out, and the way to get us out is to do this. Stop chasing money and fix the problem.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
DOB tells News 12 the landlord, who is responsible for the sewage issue, was issued a violation in early April. A monetary penalty could come next.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can’t even say that we\u2019re going to lock this place,\u201d said Dryck Alleyne, \u201cgo somewhere else, and rent, because our money’s in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the past few weeks, customers of GG\u2019s House of Cookup have been calling nonstop, asking when they\u2019ll be open. The owners say their reputation is taking a hit, but they hope the community will understand why.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restaurant owners in East Flatbush say they\u2019ve been forced to shut their doors – not because of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-215033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215033","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=215033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}