A new watch list by the city’s Public Advocate’s Office exposes the landlords behind some of the city’s most dangerous and dilapidated buildings, including those in Queens.
“The city’s worst landlords can no longer hide from responsibility while their buildings fall into dangerous disrepair,” said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
The Public Advocate’s “NYC’s Worst Landlords Watch List” was unveiled online on Monday, August 30 to allow tenants to look up a current or potential landlord by name and see housing code violations for other buildings the landlord owns. Currently, the list has 164 buildings owned by 155 landlords. More than 4,500 tenants living in these buildings.
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