Tenants of a building on 150th Street in the Bronx have served a decade without gas service and have threatened the owner with less rent if service is not reinstated.
This Wednesday morning a group of tenants of the building located at 333 of the aforementioned street protested to demand a solution to their problem.
“We have been buying electric grills, buying gas and buying prepared food. We all know about the danger but we need to eat,” said one of the neighbors.
Since 2013 the inhabitants of the apartments have to use electric stoves and other devices to make up for the lack of gas.
The group of protesters pointed out that the previous landlord had offered them a small reduction in rent, which continued to increase.
As of 2020 a new owner took over the building but the problems continued.
They added that if the service is not reconnected by the last day of April, they will go on strike to avoid paying the rent.
In addition to the lack of gas, the building has other problems such as pests and urgent need for repairs.
They insisted that they will pay less rent if they do not comply with the repairs.
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Twenty-seven-year-old Sampson Dahl has turned an 800-square-foot laundromat into a quirk-saturated home for which he pays $1,850 a month. See the full story of him here.
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Sampson Dahl, a set designer for photo and video productions, moved into a laundry building and converted it into a living and studio.
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Caleb Simpson, an influencer who specializes in documenting how New Yorkers live, calls this apartment “the weirdest he’s seen in NYC.”
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But at the same time he admits that it has so many weird things, that “it’s the funniest place I’ve been in New York.” And that is, he has documented quite original houses.
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Dahl, who is 27, pays $1,850 to live here. And she says that, although she would like to move, she would have to have “minimum, $5,000” to be able to rent another studio apartment. Or live in a tiny apartment, like titktoker Alex Verhaeg, who pays less but lives in a 95-foot (28-meter) space.
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The laundry room hasn’t been in operation since before he moved in in March 2019, but he liked the 800-square-foot space because it gives him “freedom,” he says.
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He says he hasn’t paid for most of the furniture he owns, and every item, including this musical organ (it also has a piano), which he got for free, from Amazon.
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His kitchen is equipped with everything necessary, and unlike that of actor Eli Young, who has a minibar in his apartment-ambulance, Dahl prefers tea, a drink that he says he consumes by the ton.
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While other compact NYC apartments don’t have a bathroom inside, like designer Alaina Randazzo’s, Dahl’s not only has its own bathroom… it also has lots of mirrors and even a window between the toilet and the shower.
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Among the ‘donations’ he has received is a community refrigerator. Right at the entrance of the apartment. Everyone who passes by can put or take clothes from there.
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Also, on the sidewalk, in front of the laundromat where he lives, he incorporated a swing, and a table and two chairs, for those who pass by, talk, or have fun. He says that he likes to foster a community atmosphere in his neighborhood.
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The bed is one of the few things you have paid for. She cost him $25, and to make it more original, not only is it almost near the ceiling, she also left him the original laundry sign, to sleep next to it.
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At the foot of the bed, and almost on the ceiling, he has an “air” closet, in which he says clothes hardly ever fit. Very different, by the way, from the luxury closets of some Manhattan apartments.
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Although she lives in an old laundry, she didn’t leave a single clothes dryer inside her house, so after washing her clothes, she hangs them on loops that run through her house.
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He also distributes the clothes he has washed by hanging them in other of the strange pieces that decorate his home.
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The ties where he hangs his clothes also help him overcome leisure and sometimes he does pirouettes on them.
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Similar to the influencer Tory Deluhery, who lives inside a van and inside it has her studio, Dah has her painting studio in her house-laundry, because she likes art.
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Dahl confesses that his next step is to stop living in the laundromat and turn it into a community art studio.
