Work on the bathroom has stopped again.

Monday morning I was getting over a bout of food poisoning and didn't call Jose Gonzales or E. Ponce as I had for the past two weeks. At nine am I was resting and texting my friend Lisa in San Antonio, so I know the phone did not ring and no one rang the bell or knocked on the door. When I got up to go to the bathroom, I found E. Ponce there. I was alarmed. I told him, loudly that he could not come in with out knocking. He said he has spoken to Bernardo. I said I did not care. I still had a right to be informed that someone was in the apartment. He could have should have knocked. He said he had a key to the apartment. I said he still had to knock. he said, "Ok then. I will take everything.", gesturing in a way that seemed to say he would remove the tiles from the floor. There wasn't much else to take. We still had no sink.

Last Thursday I spoke to Marta (apt7) and Maria (Apt 5) about having a tenant meeting this coming Saturday. Harmony(apt46), Vincente(apt41), Mr. Morgan(Apt 31), and I(Apt47) met in Harmony's apartment a talked briefly about the need for a tenants association. Mr. Morgan advised that Marta lead the meeting since she did a good job last time.

On Friday Bernard, Adi and I went to housing court (again). The Judge dismissed our case because the DHCR report did not match the records the LL's attorney presented to the court. According to the DHCR report Bernardo had re-newed the lease without me. Bernardo denied knowledge of the lease re-newal. The LL's attorney said It was a mistake.

???mejor que antes????


These are not the cobalt blue one inch circles I had dreamed of, hoped for and requested. However, admittedly, the floor will be easier to clean than it was before.

**disclaimer***

I do NOT recommend or endorse this tile choice. Although relatively inexpensive...it causes a weird optical effect that is more than a little nauseating. Not something you would want to see when nauseous, but unfortunately the place you have to be when nauseous.

big changes are happening in Apartment 47...The bathroom floor has been jackhammered and pulled up. I'm not exactly sure what is happening now. E. Ponce says that Wonderboard is the preferable material to use but for some reason (It's too thick?)He wants to use concrete instead. Anyway I'm happy they pulled up the old marble floor instead of covering it with concrete. Maybe we can re-new/re-use the chunks in the apartment or in the Garden. Little chunks of 545 History.

E. Ponce, the (super?) of the building and Louis B. who lives in the basement have been working in the apartment all last week and yesterday. The leak in the bathroom has ceased. Louis B. scraped (without a mask) and painted the hallways kitchen and plastered many of the holes.

We are having a disagreement regarding the broken floor in the bathroom. Should we:

A) Rip out the entire 100 year old floor, basket weave marble tile and all, repair the water soaked and sagging boards and beams underneath, then retile the floor with the tile (of the tenant's choosing?) (E. Ponce's choosing?).

B)Pour cement directly on top of the 100 year old floor, basketweave marble tiles, sagging beams, waterdamaged boards and all...then tile over the cement with the ceramic tile of (the tenant's choosing?) (E. Ponce's choosing?)

C)Replace and repair the cracked parts of the floor using a new tile (of tenant's choosing?)as has been done in the past,leaving the sagging boards and beams and basket weave tile as they are.

I vote for either A or C. E. Ponce votes for B. Mr. Nabavi came by and did little to clarify or resolve the dispute...so...work has stopped there for now.