Brooklyn Tenants Say A Health Inspector Called Their Building Too Dangerous To Enter While Mice Roam Free And Their Landlord, No. 23 On NYC’s Worst Landlords List, Will Not Meet Them

On Monday night, Nov. 9, tenants of 3821 18th Ave. in the Kensington section of Brooklyn stood outside their own building and demanded something most renters take for granted: a home without mice running through it.

Their landlord, Robert Izsak, sits at No. 23 on the Public Advocate’s Top 100 Worst Landlords Watchlist. The tenants say he refuses to sit down with them, and the rally was their way of making noise until somebody does.

According to ABC7 New York’s report on the rally, the building has hundreds of unresolved housing violations on the books with the city.

“The Mice Are Constant” Says A Tenant Whose Complaints Went Nowhere

Micheline Durandisse lives in the building, and she says the mice never let up. She has reported the problem to her landlord again and again, and she says she got no response…

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