But just as many tenants say that the repairs are temporary solutions and problems reappear soon after the work is done.<\/p>\n
A QLSNYC staff member who acts as a liaison to the 41-25 Case St. tenants said the repairs the owners followed through on often took a long time to be completed and rarely addressed the root issues. <\/p>\n
Instead of fixing a hole or mold in the walls, the staff member said, A&E would apply a new layer of paint. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe had one tenant have a complete hole in their apartment that fell right on top of their toilet and dirt would come down. And management addressed that really poorly,\u201d the staff member said. \u201cIt took them not only more than a week to address that hole at all, but when it did happen, they just taped a piece of cardboard up there to stop the debris from falling down, which doesn’t fully address the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
The staff member also said that tenants are forced to regularly call out of work on days when repairs are scheduled but that A&E rarely shows up. <\/p>\n
Bianca-Zarate-MacPherson, a staff attorney with the Tenant Rights Coalition at QLSNYC, said that if repairs in the coming months are insufficient, they may consider calling for further citations or a trial.<\/p>\n
According to data available on HPD\u2019s website, the building currently has 273 open violations. <\/p>\n
Ibrahim on Wednesday issued further HPD inspections to take place in apartment units that had no previous violations.<\/p>\n
For now, more inspections and access dates are being arranged between the tenants, A&E and HPD, as attorneys prepare for their next court appearance on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n
In a statement to the Eagle, an A&E spokesperson said that HPD violations do not show the full story of the building, claiming many violations were duplicates or could not be addressed because tenants did not grant access for repairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have invested $4.7 million into 41-25 Case Street to improve living conditions for residents and deliver the quality of housing they need and deserve,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cThis is a significant investment that has made a meaningful difference in the form of electrical upgrades, window replacements, new boilers, and the closure of 2,000 work orders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMost importantly, it demonstrates our commitment to the building and its community, and we welcome the opportunity to work directly with residents to address each concern they may have rather than through litigation,\u201d the spokesperson added. <\/p>\n
The story of the current legal battle at 41-25 Case St. began a year ago, when residents formed a tenant union and handed over a list of serious repairs to their landlord. At that time, the building had accumulated around 372 HPD violations, according to the tenant union.<\/p>\n
They brought their case to Queens Housing Court in June, and were joined in solidarity by Assemblymember Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas. The following week, Ibrahim issued an order compelling A&E to resolve the outstanding violations or risk possibly thousands of dollars in fines.<\/p>\n
Amber Gill, a tenant organizer and resident at 41-25 Case St., previously said conditions at the building had repeatedly left her and her family severely ill.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conditions in our apartments have affected far more than our comfort, they have affected our wealth, finance and daily lives,\u201d Gill said when the case was first brought forward in June. \u201cThe only thing I received was broken promises from A&E that \u2018we will fix it tomorrow.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The building\u2019s owner, Brunn, topped Public Advocate Jumaane Williams\u2019 \u201cworst landlord list\u201d in 2025. <\/p>\n
Brunn is also the landlord of 43-09 47th Ave., a Sunnyside building that suffered a major fire that left 14 people injured and 250 people displaced on Dec. 20, 2023.<\/p>\n
Brunn and A&E executive Donald Hastings, the city\u2019s second-worst rated landlord, were both sued in a class action lawsuit in July after a watchdog group alleged A&E had illegally overcharged millions of dollars in rent. The Housing Rights Initiative claimed their investigation found A&E had increased rent across five Queens rent-stabilized buildings without providing legally required improvements. A&E has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
Brunn and Hastings managed 50 buildings across the city with over 8,000 violations between them in 2025, according to the public advocate\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But just as many tenants say that the repairs are temporary solutions and problems reappear soon after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-316316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316316","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=316316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}