‘Someone in our building has it’: Covid-19 fuels tensions at apartments and condos

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‘Someone in our building has it’: Covid-19 fuels tensions at apartments and condos
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Covid-19 fuels tensions at apartments and condos

when it barred a doctor who was staying at his brother’s place while treating patients with covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.And in one Washington condo, residents worried about catching the virus from a neighbor gave her pads for her dog to pee on so she wouldn’t go outside.

“Stop the ‘us versus them,’ ” wrote another. “For all you know you’re going to be the ‘them’ tomorrow morning. We all choose to live in [an] apartment/condos.” At the Van Ness Apartments, a stone’s throw away in the same complex, Kara Harkins said she thought her building had handled things all wrong.

told The Post. Staff regularly cleaned “high touch” areas, including laundry rooms, which were safe to use,“In our building, people are coming up with questions,” Harkins said. “But they are not really getting a lot of information.”At one 300-unit condo on the Upper West Side, residents who thought they or someone else in their household might be infected were instructed to double-bag their trash and leave it outside their doors to be picked up by porters.

Residents have long complained of poor conditions, including the stench from a decomposing body in an apartment earlier this year, she said. The coronavirus has only made things worse. “We have all been working so hard to be living like relative monks in our cells,” wrote Aron Primack, a retired physician. “I feel like a meeting such as the one being proposed sets all that on its head.”

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