Mayor Mamdani, HPD announce historic $31M penalty against Bronx landlords over long-running building neglect

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood inside Robert Fulton Terrace on Wednesday alongside Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg and Department of Housing and Preservation Commissioner Dina Levy to announce a historic penalty against the owners of two troubled Bronx apartment complexes, securing $31 million in penalties and new oversight of long-delayed repairs.

The penalty —the largest ever obtained by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development— targets the owners of Robert Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers, where tenants have reported years of unsafe conditions, including broken elevators, vermin infestations and chronic outages of heat and hot water.

“For years, tenants at Robert Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers have been forced to live with vermin infestations, chronic elevator outages and a lack of heat and hot water – while their landlords met their suffering with silence,” said Mayor Mamdani. “Today, that neglect is finally met with consequences.”

“This administration secured the largest penalty in HPD’s history because no landlord is above the law. But penalties alone are not enough. We are taking control of the situation to make sure repairs are made and conditions are permanently improved. Every New Yorker deserves safe, dignified housing.”

https://www.bxtimes.com/mamdani-hpd-announce-penalty-against-bronx-landlords/