{"id":261969,"date":"2026-06-10T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:11:10","slug":"disabled-tenants-in-brooklyn-sue-landlord-after-living-without-elevator-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261969\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled Tenants in Brooklyn Sue Landlord After Living Without Elevator, Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tenants at 1933 Union St.\u00a0sued their landlord and management company for failing to provide safe and equal access to their homes.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn tenants with disabilities filed a lawsuit against their landlord and management company for failing to fix critical building infrastructure so they can safely access their Brownsville homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Legal Aid Society said it filed\u00a0a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Park Monroe II Rehab Housing Development Fund Corp., Shinda Management Corporation<\/a>, and Claudette Henry, the entities and individuals responsible for managing and operating 1933 Union St.\u00a0for failing to provide tenants with disabilities safe and equal access to their homes.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of multiple tenants with mobility disabilities, alleges that the landlord has allowed critical accessibility infrastructure \u2014 including a wheelchair lift and elevators \u2014 to remain broken or unreliable for extended periods of time, forcing residents to endure dangerous and humiliating conditions simply to enter and leave their apartments, lawyers said.<\/p>\n

The landlord and management company are well known to tenants\u2019 advocates and have previously appeared on New York City\u2019s \u201cWorst Landlord\u201d list<\/a> due to longstanding building conditions and tenant complaints.<\/p>\n

For over a year, the wheelchair lift servicing the building has been out of operation, leaving residents who use wheelchairs trapped in their homes or dependent on others to physically carry them up and down stairs. The building\u2019s elevators also frequently malfunction, forcing tenants with disabilities and chronic conditions to navigate multiple flights of stairs or cross a hazardous rooftop to reach functioning elevators on the opposite side of the building, lawyers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese conditions are not only unacceptable \u2014 they are discriminatory and dangerous,\u201d said Madeleine Reichman, staff attorney in the Civil Law Reform Unit at The Legal Aid Society. \u201cThese residents should not have to risk injury, miss school, or depend on being physically carried just to access their homes. Federal, state, and local laws require housing providers to ensure equal access for tenants with disabilities, and we are seeking immediate relief to force this landlord to comply.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tenant complaints in the lawsuit include a\u00a0child who uses a wheelchair missing\u00a0school because she could not safely leave the building when the superintendent was unavailable to carry her downstairs; her mother suffering\u00a0back injuries from repeatedly carrying both her child and a heavy wheelchair up flights of stairs; a\u00a0tenant developing\u00a0painful sores and obtaining physical injuries after being forced to use crutches on stairs because the wheelchair lift remained broken; and a resident with\u00a0arthritis forced to cross the building\u2019s roof during elevator outages, despite dangerous tripping hazards and significant physical pain.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief requiring the landlord to immediately repair the wheelchair lift, properly maintain the building\u2019s elevators, provide reliable stair-free access for tenants with disabilities, and implement accommodations during elevator outages, lawyers said.<\/p>\n

In addition to the federal action, Legal Aid Society has filed a separate Housing Part (HP) action<\/a> in New York City Housing Court addressing additional longstanding building-wide conditions and maintenance failures impacting tenants at the property, including the loss of cooking gas service. Tenants have been forced to rely on hot plates for months, while also contending with persistent leaks, mold conditions, and other chronic repair issues throughout the building, lawyers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tenants at 1933 Union St.\u00a0sued their landlord and management company for failing to provide safe and equal access…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[101706,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-261969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-1933-union-street","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\/261969","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=261969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}