Landlord Still Won't Say Why He Cut Off Heat For 80-Year-Old Woman

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A New York City landlord still isn't saying why some tenants at 80 New York Ave., including a 56-year-old mother of two and her 80-year-old aunt, haven't had heat for the last two winters.

Patch wanted to ask Chananya Gold of Gold Management whether he feels like an 80-year-old woman should have had heat in her apartment this weekend, when temperatures dipped into the teens.

Gold apparently had no answer. He hung up on Patch before we could finish our question. We have been trying to reach him since last Monday, Feb. 27.

Gold's attorney, Arun Perinbasekar, failed to return a week's worth of messages left by Patch at the office of his firm, Sidrane Law, including one left Monday.

Gold Management illegally ripped the boiler out of the building in 2015, residents say, and installed individual heaters in apartments that had been renovated and flipped to turn a bigger profit. The unrenovated units were not given an adequate heat replacement and have been at the mercy of outside temperatures since.

Patch also reached out Monday to the mayor's office for comment on this case, and we'll let you know if we hear back.

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