Residents of a tony Brooklyn apartment complex may have enviable amenities but are reliant on hot plates to make food, they claim.
Manzanares added that her son’s lungs, as well as her own, are “terrible” — a result, she believes, of living amid ongoing gas leaks for so long.
Apartments in the building — which was completed in 2014 — on average range in monthly rent from $494 for an income-restricted, lottery-assigned studio to $4,450 for a market rate two-bedroom. To add insult to injury, Domain Companies, the building’s developer and manager, receive enormous tax breaks on the property, thanks to having participated in the freshly expired 421-a exemption program, a controversial way for real estate companies to save on taxes by making a certain number of units “affordable.”
“The well-being of our Eleven33 residents is our top priority,” Domain Companies executive Mohini Merchant said in a statement, Gothamist reported. “We have communicated with [the tenants] directly on a regular basis.” The company told residents they were holding back on offering concessions “until we know the totality of the problem,” according to the publication.
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