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Steven Kessner
'All I do is fix, and they damage'
Taina Borrero
Tuesday, June 27th 2006
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photo: Giulietta Verdon-Roe
Mold contaminates apartment 4F at one of Kessner's East 117th Street buildings.
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Scraped from the bottom of the barrel, tales of living hell
'The No. 1 Worst in the United States'
by Jay Bachhuber and Samara Smith
'Threatened tenants with a bat'
by Adam F. Hutton
'Horrible bedbugs coming from one of the walls'
by Roger Peter D'Arceuil and Taina Borrero
'When it rains, it rains inside the building.'
by Olaf Bertram-Nothnagel
'Sometimes they don't open the windows and let the walls breathe'
by Ryan Vu and Joanna Raccuglia
'When he came in, all the problems came in'
by Charlene A. Joseph and Kendall J. Matthews
Most of the bathrooms leak
by Ruben Gonzalez
'No question she's going to push me out'
by Allison Steinberg
'We were greeted by blood in the elevator one morning'
by Dana Eshghi
"Kessner and his company have treated us like we're not worth anything," says Paula Serrano, one of Kessner's tenants at 328 East 106th Street who finally won some court-ordered repairs. "It gave us more strength to fight against him. We will not give up."
Kessner says he won't give up either. "I'm not selling," he says. "No one is forcing me out of the neighborhood I helped build. This particular problem with this group has been my only headache. Listen, I like this neighborhood. I have four sons in the business and we're going to grow. I'm going to finish my job. I want this neighborhood to be tree-lined. The media has an agenda, and it has been biased against us. How bad of a landlord can I be? I never made the '10 Worst' list at your paper."
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