Since the front door is often broken and the super is often absent...anyone can come into our building and do what they like...legal or not.

Building maintenance has been bad for many years. The hallways get cleaned very rarely.

The stairs and hallways are used as bathroom and bedroom to vagrants, prostitutes, and drug addicts.

The stairs and hallways are usually filthy, and often sticky with beer, urine, and human feces.

My roomate, Bernardo changed the lock on our mailbox and refuses to give me a key. Sometimes I don't get important pieces of mail.

Sometimes the front door lock works...much of the time it does not. The intercom/door buzzer system has not worked since I moved to 545 in 2003.

Trash in back and along the sides of the building are breeding grounds for rats and disease.

This coming Thursday is apartment 47's next court date with 545 w 146th st, inc. This morning, I went around the hallways of the building with samantha to take pictures of the problems in the building. I stopped to talk to a few of the neighbors about problems in their apartments too. Mr. Morgan in apartment talked to us for a while about the history of the building. He says it was very beautiful at one time.

The owners of 545 W 146th Street, Inc have filed another petition or non-payment. Late in March I found two copies of this petition on the floor of our hallway in apt 47 (along with a letter from DHCR dated late December, saying our rent overcharge had been denied.)

I have been waiting for this since the last case was dismissed without prejudice last November. Funny how the landlord's petition happened to co-inside with my travel plans.

Adi and Bernardo went to housing court last Monday and scheduled another court date for the 3rd of May.