Tenant Says Kushner Companies' Building Has Black Mold: Report

EAST VILLAGE, NY — An apartment owned by presidential advisor Jared Kushner's family company is infested with black mold, causing a tenant to suffer serious health consequences, according to a new report.

Uta Winkler, an East Village resident who lives in a Kushner Companies-owned building, detailed her health problems in a new story in the New York Daily News on Wednesday.

Winkler said she's been trying for at least a year to get Kushner Companies to address the black mold that's persisted in her apartment on E. Ninth Street. Winkler, 50, described difficulty to breathing and congestion in her nose, throat and eyes because of the mold.

Winkler told the Daily News that the mold started in 2013 because of flooding in a nearby apartment that was being renovated by Kushner's contractors.

“It’s harassment to get me out,” she told the Daily News.

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Patch on Wednesday.

Kushner stepped down as CEO from his family real-estate firm in January, after his father-in-law Donald Trump was elected president.

Other Kushner tenants have accused the company of overcharging them on their rent, and the company's rental practices in Maryland are under investigation by the state's attorney general.

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